Last Wednesday we trekked into New York for Jay's Christmas present -- Heidi had reserved tickets to attend a taping of The Daily Show. Our reservation info suggested that we arrive at the Daily Show studios between 3:30 and 4:00 pm. We arrived in the city around noon, so we spent a few hours wandering around Central Park, bought lunch at the Hello Deli (ordered from Rupert himself!), and even saw Larry King while walking around. We arrived at the studio to stand in line around 3:45.
After around an hour of waiting in line, a Daily Show staffer began working his way from the start of the line, handing out number cards. He made it to about 10 people ahead of us, at which point he stopped, walked back nearer to us, and yelled to all, "People, I'll be blunt: if you don't have a numbered card in your hand right now, you're not getting in tonight." We knew they overbooked the show, but we were still disappoined, to say the least. We were allowed to add our names to a list to get VIP tickets for a future showing (theoretically, reserved tickets / guaranteed entry), so we'll try again in August.
In other updates, we've just wrapped up our school years -- Jay is now out of the office for the summer, and Heidi just submitted her final grades for her Spring class. We had a wonderful, quiet Memorial Day, spent enjoying the sunshine and catching up on some reading.
We're aiming for some low-key R&R this week, and tending to the garden in hopes that everything gets off to a good start. Looking at making our first venture to Martha's Vineyard in the next few weeks, then planning for our annual summer cross-country track to MN.
