This morning I was still feeling sluggish so we delayed leaving the studio until midday… We had the Sopranos tour scheduled in and got two for one tickets using the code NYCO on the zerve website… We thought we would make our way towards the tour meeting on the outskirts of Times Square in the hope that we would find the HBO store, as we are big fans of lots of the HBO shows, well we found it and bought a few great bits and pieces for ourselves and some gifts for friends and family… The staff were really chatty and once we mentioned that we were doing the tour they gave us 10% off which was cool! We chatted with them for awhile and headed off to grab a quick salad before the tour…
The tour itself was great, the dude that took the tour Marc Barren was really informative with great info on the actors, sets, and general info on the show, he was in 13 episodes… We went around parts of Jersey which was also cool, to see a bit more of the US, and went to the café that the last scene was shot in and of course the Bada Bing! Which unfortunately was the worst strip club I have been too… The girls didn’t actually strip, just dancing round (not even provocatively nor using the pole) in their underwear… This is due to state law; they can’t have booze and boobs, one or the other… And they drop you off at the HBO store so we went for round two! The staff remembered us which I thought was cool...
We decided to walk up to the Brooklyn Diner – on a recommendation, and it was really good! Before the food came we saw David Walliams (looking extremely hot in a suit) and Matt Lucas ( looking super casual) two tables down from us, I was totally star struck, we are fans of Little Britain… I ordered the ‘famous’ chicken pot pie, I can see why they say it’s famous, it was divine!!! Was really good to get some yummy veggies, I feel our trip hasn’t provided a good option with lots of colourful vegetables! Mark was stuck for a vegetarian option so went for the chicken parmigana, which looked great and he said (referring to that year of eating chicken in 2005) that it was better then any chicken parmigana he has had in Australia (and when he ate chicken we ate a lot of different chicken parmas!), it was quite like ‘pizza with a chicken base’
On the way to the diner we spotted Rockefeller centre and impulsively decided to go to top of the rock… I’m not big on views and we had some great views from the tour but I thought its better to try these things then pass them by… So we went up, I forgot my discount pass because I never really thought we would go! Once we got through all of the rigmarole and made it though to the top it was quite beautiful!!! I’m not sure how people spend hours there, but we did scoot around to every possible photo angle and snap away… We didn’t go up to the 3rd and highest viewing point as I was tripping about the heights factor on the 2nd deck! But it is worth doing, if only once in your life, I probably wouldn’t do it again…
And then it was home to bed, another long day planned tomorrow…
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