No Daily Show

Welp, one of our biggest highlights on this trip did not happen. We got to the Daily Show to find a massive line, and after standing (ugh, MORE standing) forever (45 minutes) in line, they came out, told us it was overbooked by 25 people, proceeded to hand out about 40 VIP tickets, plus about 150 regular tickets, and there was more than 25 of us left out in the blowin' wind, lemme tell ya. They said they could issue us VIP tickets for guaranteed entry at another show, but we won't be here in April, we're here NOW. Those fuckers. So we were disappointed, sulked home through the amazingly frantic and crowded rush hour and just chilled in the hotel the rest of the night watching more News Radio. Which actually was SUCH a relief for me because I didn't think my legs were going to make it home. I drew up a bath to soak for a bit so that was nice. We were going to treat ourselves to some yummy takeout, but not knowing what to order and not wanting to go get anything made our decision to use up some more of our food. It was a pleasant evening, and we decided that we won't mope, we'll just get to The Colbert Report VERY EARLY. We can't bitch too much cuz the tickets were free, so whatever. Of course now that means we're going to have to do MORE standing, we're going to get there the recommended 1 1/2 hours early and I'm sure I'll be a whiney bitch for the duration. Oy, John is SOOOOO patient with me. And he's been such a love making our breakfasts every morning, doing literally all the planning and navigation...he's so wonderful ;) YAY FOR SCHMOOPIE!

Other than missing Jon Stewart, we made it to the Planetarium and got to see one of the most AWESOME space shows we've ever seen!!!!! It was SO great! And the whole museum was completely packed, as was the space show. We were happy to see that science and natural history are important here. We walked around the museum afterwards and looked at more space photographs, an exhibit about the earth and then footage of the volcanoes at the ocean floor! It was very nice, even the hundreds of kids there were very well behaved, more than I can say for the adults.

So today we're planning on some bumming around taking photos until we've got to stand in another line for a million years (but worth it to see Stephen Colbert!!) and then we're going to try to catch a Staten Island Ferry for a ride later (and probably more standing in line for that). They actually have ferries that run every half hour ALL NIGHT LONG here. It's true this city never sleeps. We almost went to one last night late, but decided we just really wanted to chill. We haven't taken many photos, still have not filled out the postcards we bought and haven't bought much in the way of trinkets.

Anyway, I'll write more later. Hope all is well at home on the range!
Love to you all :)