Well, we finally made it to NYC, but it took 24 hours to get here. I woke up at 1:45 am on Thursday morning to get to the airport at 4:30 am to catch a 5:45 am flight. We checked our luggage in for that flight and headed for the gate. Unfortunately, we did not get on that flight, but our luggage did! It headed to La Guardia without us. Because we were flying standby, we were at the mercy of the gate agents and how many people were on the flight. We tried for several more flights and finally got on a flight to St. Louis. We got off in St. Louis and got another flight to Chicago easily. When we got off the plane in Chicago....it was a sea of people. Midway airport had shut down earlier that morning and many flights were cancelled and delayed due to weather. As a result, it backed people up onto any flight we wanted to take to NYC. We tried them all! We finally caught the last flight out of Midway to Long Island. We landed in Islip, NY and took an hour long, $120 taxi ride into Manhattan. We finally hit our hotel at 3:00 am. Today we spent a couple of hours heading to La Guardia to get our luggage. And by the way....Houston traffic ain't nothing. I want to say a HUGE thank you to Cheryl. We met her in the airport and she let us ride in her cab to her house and then we took the rest of the cab ride to Manhattan with her driver. It saved us some money! Thanks, Cheryl. You are an angel! She also told us that New York has the biggest parking lots in the world......it's their freeways!
Well....I'll go ahead and admit it.....I'm Terri See and I'm afraid of heights! BUT you don't travel all the way to New York City and not go to the top of a building....be it Rockefeller or Empire....to see the city from one of the coolest vantage point you just don't see everyday. Twenty two dollars and seventy stories later, I made it. My heart was beating out of my chest and I was very nervous, but it was worth it. 
The NBC Studio tour was so interesting, but they would not let us take pictures or videos. We got to go the filming stage of Dr. Oz, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (which used to be where The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson taped), and the Saturday Night Live studio set. Other than SNL, the sound stages where tiny. The tricks used during taping are what makes the stages look so large. Where Jimmy Fallon starts the show doing his monologue...his desk and The Roots Band are a few steps away from him, but because they do no pan the camera, you never see the true size or depth of the studio. Two interesting pieces of trivia about SNL is that almost every scene is done on the same stage the host starts the show on and Chris Farley had almost every one of his scenes taped on a different stage than the others because he left such a mess, being that he was so physical and used messy props. They couldn't clean the set off fast enough after his scenes between commercials.
Sheila using her App
