NYC: saturday 10/2

to celebrate my day of birth, we set-off to time square in hopes to win lottery tickets to west side story. it must have been birthday luck, cause we both won tickets! the show and choreography was fantastic. glad we got to see it before it leaves broadway in january

we took pictures of the city, shopped 5th ave, browsed through union square...

the subway was everything i expected it to be... dirty, funny, and full of characters. i don't think we rode on a train that didn't have someone singing, playing music, or simply begging for a buck!

grabbed a bite to eat in union square...

that night we rushed (literally... running through the streets in heels) back to nbc studios for saturday night live! they bumped us to floor seats; we were like giddy 14-year-old girls when they handed us our tickets. the experience was amazing. the actors read from cue cards the entire show and a herd of crew members disassembled each scene in 30 seconds flat! i loved seeing the behind the scenes of one of my all-time favorite shows. such a treat. oh, and morgan freeman walking into "what up with that" was a pleasant surprise too.

and yes, we made it on tv... scroll to [2:10] in the video below and you can briefly see me and marci behind the silver-painted actors (best part is marci has no idea she's on camera for that long...)

coconut cake from cafe lalo...

i could get used to a nyc birthday!

{credit: all photos/videos, except 1,5,12,13, by marci}