Yesterday was a busy day. We began by taking the subway to ABC to be part of the audience of Live with Regis and Kelly. Unfortunately Kelly wasn't there, but we did get to see Jennifer Anniston and Jordan Sparks, and of course, Regis. It was interesting to see the show from this perspective. There are a lot of people involved in producing a TV show. The studio is very small and it takes a lot of coordination to change out the sets during commercial breaks, keep Regis on track with cue cards, and of course to remind the audience to clap or laugh.
We hopped back on the Grayline bus to see upper Manhattan (Harlem, the Apollo Theatre, Grants Tomb). We then made our way to Yankee Stadium, where a game was to begin at 1 p.m. We determined that it was simply too hot to sit in the stadium all afternoon (and the added fact that the only tickets available were selling for $250 each and were in the grandstand), so after observing the crowds for awhile, we returned to our hotel to rest.
Grayline offers a 6 p.m. tour to Brooklyn, which after taking, we can't really recommend, but the cool breezes from the open air bus were nice. At sunset, we went to the top of the Rock (Rockefeller Center) to observe the Manhattan skyline, then took a friend up on a dinner recommendation and ate a late dinner at the Red Eye Grill at 56th and 7th. It turned out to be a great recommendation. We finished dinner at 11 p.m. (yes, this is still me writing...I haven't been kidnapped by aliens), and took a leisurely stroll back to our hotel on 41st street (Hotel 41). Fifteen blocks isn't a bad walk but it seemed that the streets were just as crowded then as they were at noon. It is indeed, the city that never sleeps.
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