Saturday, 1 October 2011

NYC

woke up at 9 and emma jane and I had breakfast in the hotel and met Jeffrey and we walked to Rockefellar Plaza, which is awesome. Bought tickets for the 11:45 NBC studio tour, so had like an hour, so we wondered around, went into H and M and bought a blazer. Also went into a cathedral (st patricks or peters i think?). Alsooo went to Teuscher Chocolatier, amazing.!!

Then we went to the NBC studios for our tour. It started off in a movie theatre which showed how NBC started. Then we got to go into all these studios which have different shows. we went into where they film all these different news programs. Then we went into Dr Oz's studio, and then into Saturday Night Live's studio! It was so coooool. They were setting up all the sets, and practising the music. While im typing this im watching SNL (which is, obviously, live) and it is so cool to look at these people (Lady Antebellum and Melissa McCartney are both on tonight, ) and think that i was there earlier! Then we went into how they do the make up and masks for SNL, which was awesoooome. If they dont get the masks and make up applied in the given time (usually 20 seconds, ) they have to cut to commercial and they lose $250 000 !! After SNL we went into this smaller studio, where we got a photo taken behind the anchor desk, and then we all sat down in the seats in the 'audience'. Our tourguide person asked for 2 volounteers who could read at a 5th grade english level, so me and this other woman volountered. i was assigned the news, and she had to do the weather. So I got to sit behind the anchor desk and do like a legit news report thing! with the subtitle things and stuff! and then the other lady did the weather. it was really hard!! they told us afterwards it was broadcast live to the NBC cafe! hahahahaha. We got the dvd though :P
We finished on the tour, and then looked around the gift store. it is so cool, all the shows the have on they have so many gifts for. So Friends and stuff had a whole lot of things about it. AAAAAND for chuck, they had BuyMore tshirts!!!!!!!!!!! so cool.
After the tour had finished we went to the Conergie Deli for lunch, which was really nice. fantastic (huge) sanwiches, and something called egg creams, which someone told us were amazing, but i didnt like. Ate with Jeffreys sister in law, harriet.
Then we took the metro down to SoHo, which is an area with loooads of nice streets. So we did some shopping :) which was fantaaaastic, hardly bought anything though. Then we caught a taxi back to our hotel, where we had an hour to get ready for wicked, and relax a bit. We got dressed, and then went out to supper at a french bistro down the road, which was really nice.
THEEEEEN we went to WICKED!! in the gershin theatre. it was absolutely beyond words. The sets were amazing, as were the costumes. The costume changes were so good, and everything was beautiful! The acting and dancing was absolutely brilliant.. and then the SINGING, the singing was absolutely incredible!!! it was so so so so so good. i would watch that show a hundred times over. it was absolutely beautiful. The singers range was increeedible!
After the show we came home, and are now watching some SNL.
I dont want to leave NYC! it is so beautiful! i love it here. (MUM WE HAVE TO COME BACK!)

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