we got up early to acquire standby tickets for an nbc late night show. this idea had been born the day before on our tour through the studios.. and seemed to be quite a nice idea.
since we were already there, we got in line for the top of the rock - an elevator ride to the roof of the rockefeller center to overlook manhattan by day [where we finally managed to take a few pictures from us].
when we came back down matt had the - at the first glance crazy - idea to take a subway to roosevelt island, just to look at the new york skyline again. when we arrived we discovered that they had a public cable car [the roosevelt island tramway] transporting people back and forth.. with an awesome view over the city. most certainly we had to hop on!
again, back on the ground we walked along 6th avenue towards the upper eastside to visit the famous solomon guggenheim museum. it was packed, wherefore we simply enjoyed the architecture [and not the exhibitions].
it turned out to be a rather qucik experience, so that we continued lingering along central park..
..towards the metropolitan museum of art ['the met']. we saw even less of this one.
'nevermind', we thought and took a cab downtown, for another museum: the museum of sex. it was so lame that we did not even care to take pictures. however, the cab ride along 5th avenue was amazing!
after the museum-related disappointment we were right on time to go back to the nbc studios.. since we had tickets for the jimmy fallon late night show!
the show is a mixture between harald schmidt and willkommen österreich; i.e. quite fun.
but not only that the jokes were good and the guests famous [e.g. taylor swift], his studio band is the best live band ever: the wonderful wonderful roots!
the experience of being in the audience of a tv-show was amazing itself.. but seeing the roots live.. undescribable. they are incredible!later that night we met up with brynne and her boyfriend to have our last dinner in nyc. brynne had picked another cool place calles moto, where - as we were told by and african-american lady - 'all them white folks go'. atmosphere was bohemian, food was good.. yet i was sick another time. nevermind, it was fine!
