I am
eternally grateful to my friend Janine for getting us tickets to see
Conan O'Brien (Thanks Andi!!!) Unfortunately, she could only get 4
tickets and there were 5 of us. So Annette and Janet got up early
and stood in line for an hour to get standby tickets (they start giving
out the tickets at 9am). Sam, Janine and I meet up with them and
we all did the NBC Studio tour. It was really cool to see them
setting up for Saturday Night Live and we even saw the musical guest
rehearsing (Jack Johnson - too bad we had never heard of him).
We walked to Grand Central Station for lunch. 2 Boots pizza is awesome and Juniors cheesecake is the best I have ever had. Then we walked up 5th Avenue and did a little shopping. I bought a really cute ring shaped like an "M" at Erwin Pearl. By now it was time to get ready for the Conan taping. Our tickets said we had to be there by 4pm. We were shocked to find out we actually had VIP tickets and we ended up 4 rows from the front right in front of where the guests sit. Luckily, I asked about Annette who was in the standby line and they got a wristband for her so she could get in with us!! It was incredible to see Bruce Willis in person...especially in a towel!!!! After the show we had a few drinks in our room and then headed to Times Square where we ate dinner at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co. (www.bubbagump.com) I highly recommend it, we had a table overlooking Times Square, and the drinks and food were great! On our way back to the hotel we took a detour past the theatre where Letterman films. |