NYC: Embracing our Inner Tourists

For brief spates of time each day, we threw caution to the wind and went full tourist. We visited Macy's Santaland (but did not stay to see Santa). 

 We had coffee near Times Square.

We booked ourselves a matinee performance to see the Radio City Rockettes. I can confirm that there were legs for miles. Miles. But the show was a real feel good.

We hung out in Rockefeller Center and took pictures in front of the NBC Studio window, the one where they film The Today Show.

And we decided to book ourselves on the NBC Studio tour. As far as tourist things to do in New York, the studio tour is one I'd recommend wholeheartedly. I'm not a big SNL watcher but the inner workings of a TV studio are pretty fascinating. 

You're not allowed to take pictures during the tour itself but we got to see where the Nightly News is read, where Saturday Night Live is filmed, where Emmy Award winning sound technicians work. Our final moment on the tour itself involved doing a 'live' broadcast for the upcoming Winter Olympics. We were in front of the Green Screen, using the microphones, doing the voice overs. For lack of a better word, it was fun!

And so. We left New York with a million things still to see. We only scratched the surface of the museums; we only had one D'Agostino salad; we didn't make it into the New York Public Library. So we've put it all on our to-do list for next time. We will be back and this time, we won't wait so long.