Busy day today! We started off early. Got a couple of White Chocolate Mocha's at Starbucks, and headed over to ABC's studio to be in the audience of Live with Regis & Kelly. We waited in line for a while and then proceeded into the studio. We sat down about 5 rows up, dead in the middle. We're thinking, "Man, GREAT seats!! Right in front of them!". Then the boom camera came out...and all I could see was the top of there heads, and their chins. During commercial breaks, they came up into the audience and chatted with everyone. It was pretty fun! I got a couple of pictures of them right up close. So, their guests for the day were "P Diddy" (Sean Combs), talking about his new Sean John clothing line. Then Vonzell Solomon from American Idol came out to sing (which Allison and I were super stoked about...we're avid AI watchers). At the end of the show, they told us they were going to tape a few segments for upcoming shows. So out came Mario and he sang "Let Me Love You", which was really, really good. Then came Katie Holmes...the chic in Batman Begins and is dating Tom Cruise. She's an idiot. Possibly one of the worst interviewees of all time. We were glad when she got off the stage.
We were starving after R&K, so we walked over to Central Park, grabbed a hog dog and a coke, and people-watched as they sunbathed on the grass of the Sheep Meadow and played frisbee. We walked around for a while there, just looking around. It's a hugely strange feeling to see so much park: green trees, grass, and ponds, all caged in by towering skyscrapers. I felt like a tiny caged animal...very difficult to explain.
After Central Park, we headed over to get in line for the Late Show with David Letterman (like 10 blocks away). If you watch Letterman, you know he always jokes about how cold he keeps the theater...he ain't jokin' folks...it was probably in the low to mid 50's in there. You could hang meat in there. We got GREAT seats in the balcony, dead center. The Late Show band is absolutley incredible...lots of energy and busting at the seams with talent. In fact, they were probably the best part of the whole shindig. Dave was pretty darn funny...unfortunately his main interview that night was Katie Holmes...again. And she was even dumber than earlier today when we saw her at Regis & Kelly. I'm pretty sure we got on TV, but we haven't watched the tape yet to see.
We got out of Letterman around 5:40 PM, and had 6:00 PM dinner reservations at Serendipity 3 about 20 blocks away. Did we take a cab? No...the streets were super rush hour packed. So we power walked (which felt good for the first 2 blocks...then I got really tired). We got to Serendipity 3 about 6:10, and they graciously let us keep our reservation. I had a mediocre bacon cheeseburger, and Allison had some turkey thing. But the main reason to go there is for their Frrrozen Hot Chocolate. It's a favorite of Oprah's, thus the reason we ate there. It was pretty tasty, but not "to die for" (or in NYC accent 'to die fa"). I also got a strawberry cheesecake dessert with icecream...incredible.
We meandered back toward Times Square (you'll hear me say that a lot...our hotel was just off Times Square) and just took it all in. While waiting for a light to change, we got behind a HUGE fella and another guy. A teenage girl ran up to the litler guy and said "Nick, we were standing in line to get a picture...could we still get one?". He said sure, and I offered to snap the photo for them, which I did. He looked SOOO familiar, but couldn't place him. Then Allison said, "I think that's Nick Carter". I agreed, but couldn't place why we knew him, or who he belonged to. As we were walking across the street behind him, we realized who he was: a Backstreet Boy (they were singing at the Today show the next morning), and the guy who dated Paris Hilton. It was pretty cool. Then we went to bed, completely exhausted.
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Published by John Nelson
on June 12, 2005 at 6:45 PM.
We were starving after R&K, so we walked over to Central Park, grabbed a hog dog and a coke, and people-watched as they sunbathed on the grass of the Sheep Meadow and played frisbee. We walked around for a while there, just looking around. It's a hugely strange feeling to see so much park: green trees, grass, and ponds, all caged in by towering skyscrapers. I felt like a tiny caged animal...very difficult to explain.
After Central Park, we headed over to get in line for the Late Show with David Letterman (like 10 blocks away). If you watch Letterman, you know he always jokes about how cold he keeps the theater...he ain't jokin' folks...it was probably in the low to mid 50's in there. You could hang meat in there. We got GREAT seats in the balcony, dead center. The Late Show band is absolutley incredible...lots of energy and busting at the seams with talent. In fact, they were probably the best part of the whole shindig. Dave was pretty darn funny...unfortunately his main interview that night was Katie Holmes...again. And she was even dumber than earlier today when we saw her at Regis & Kelly. I'm pretty sure we got on TV, but we haven't watched the tape yet to see.
We got out of Letterman around 5:40 PM, and had 6:00 PM dinner reservations at Serendipity 3 about 20 blocks away. Did we take a cab? No...the streets were super rush hour packed. So we power walked (which felt good for the first 2 blocks...then I got really tired). We got to Serendipity 3 about 6:10, and they graciously let us keep our reservation. I had a mediocre bacon cheeseburger, and Allison had some turkey thing. But the main reason to go there is for their Frrrozen Hot Chocolate. It's a favorite of Oprah's, thus the reason we ate there. It was pretty tasty, but not "to die for" (or in NYC accent 'to die fa"). I also got a strawberry cheesecake dessert with icecream...incredible.
We meandered back toward Times Square (you'll hear me say that a lot...our hotel was just off Times Square) and just took it all in. While waiting for a light to change, we got behind a HUGE fella and another guy. A teenage girl ran up to the litler guy and said "Nick, we were standing in line to get a picture...could we still get one?". He said sure, and I offered to snap the photo for them, which I did. He looked SOOO familiar, but couldn't place him. Then Allison said, "I think that's Nick Carter". I agreed, but couldn't place why we knew him, or who he belonged to. As we were walking across the street behind him, we realized who he was: a Backstreet Boy (they were singing at the Today show the next morning), and the guy who dated Paris Hilton. It was pretty cool. Then we went to bed, completely exhausted.
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