TV Stars!

One forgets the noise of the city at night!  Cars, trucks, buses - but the worst is the car alarm - especially when it goes off 3 nights in a row!!

4:15 came a little early when you don't go to sleep till 11:30!  We dressed in our awesome matching t-shirts and made our way in the dark out to the bus stop!

Traffic wasn't near as bad as the night before so we made good time on the bus getting to our drop off point!

Here we are standing in line to go through security at 5:45am!  Yes, it's still dark out!  We had fun visiting with the people in line!

 After security, you went and found your place to stand!  They also had a place to make your own poster if you didn't bring one!

 A selfie standing in OUR spot!

 We stood there a LONG time - and slowly it began to get light!  Check out our t-shirts and buttons we received!

Yes, we all shook his hand!!  Once the Today Show started, they had tv's outside so you could see what was happening inside but you couldn't hear!  You could also walk over to the window and be seen sometimes!

 The back of our shirts!

 Everyone loves Hoda!!  She came out a couple of times - stops and talks to people - and came right over to us and asked if she could take a selfie with us!  When the camera went around the square, we were shown on TV and also could get a couple of quick glimpses other times!  Many people replied on Facebook that they had seen us!  So that was exciting!

 It was fun being there and now I can say I've been on The Today Show!!

By 8:30 we were ready to eat breakfast!  Not an easy task in NYC - I think everybody there grabs a bagel or sweet off a food cart and gets coffee from Starbucks!!  It was difficult to find an actual place that was open that cooked food!!  But we finally found a place, even though you walked through a line and ordered!  The omelettes tasted great that morning!!

We caught the Hop On Hop Off bus after breakfast for our Day Tour of Uptown Manhattan!  Though you can't see them very well here, we're wearing our long sleeved t-shirts that they handed out at The Today Show!  It was cooler than normal and when the wind came up, we were kind of cold so the shirts came in handy!

The height of most of the buildings was breathtaking!!

This is an apartment building with a guy beside the rope who is washing windows - you wouldn't catch me up there!

A beautiful church - many are pretty old and all I could think of is where do these people park that go to church?

I'm always reading about New York "brownstones" in many of my books - and I finally got to see one!!  It's hard to imagine that some of these places are huge inside because they all look rather small from the outside!

The tour was long because we kept getting stopped with all of the traffic - again, it's hard to imagine driving around Manhattan - many of the roads are only 2 lanes each way!

Next up that afternoon - the Ferry Tour!!