woke up early...ie 10:30 am....for Carlos. he turned up at 11:45......i should have known....after all i made him goan...we go down to adeles apartment and he finishes corking it...i find out he used to play football for some top NY clubs and loves Luis Figo...also he calls it football and not soccer...i think he wants to be goan!!!
well after we get adeles place smelling like sweaty man i rushed to some restaurant where i was supposed to be having lunch with karl and adele and her cousins who had come down from Paris. it was a nice Jewish place. her uncle and aunt spoke some English...but her cousins only spoke french..so i spent most of the lunch time eating a sandwich and listening to her uncle narrate stoires from his childhood while he and his wife kept figuring out the best English words to use...and asking adele to translate the french ones to English. that made it all the more enjoyable
after that adele called up one of her friends who worked at the NBC studios at times square for a tour.....so off we went.....the best part about having a friend give a tour rather than joining the tour group was seeing things public don't always see.
we saw their work places (looks like a FBI stakeout, with dark rooms and monitors all over and no windows. not very cool)...we saw the SNL set and some other sets.....but the piece de le resistance was the "SECRET GARDEN"
this garden was built on the ninth floor balcony of the building for a very popular NBC radio host a long time ago. he used to keep going to central park to relax his mind and the crew could never find him when he had to do the show. so the NBC management just built him a garden in the building.
the reason its called a secret garden is cause not many now about it and those who do still have trouble finding it. Adeles friend who was giving us the tour took 25 mins to find it. you need to take a particular elevator to a particular floor and then use some staircase to somewhere else...and you get the picture...the garden was nice...it being secret made it awesome.
after the tour karl and me went to the theater to get tickets for the dark knight.....yes finally :) adele and 3 of her friends were joining us as well.
we got the tickets and had time to spare so kaarl and me checked out a comic book store nearby...really kickass......felt like buying everything there.
we met adele and her friends for the movie....adele brought sweets and snacks for everyone...though especially for me, cause she wanted me to have the proper movie experience...shes so thoughtful
the movie was great...though i was hungry after and so decided to but some pizza to take home. did that and went home to get ready for my crazy ass weekend to Berklee college of music. (which will have to wait till the next post)...so be patient.....till tom :)
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