We're back!! Trey and I flew over to NYC this past weekend to see one of the bands he books (Fleet Foxes) perform on Saturday Night Live for heaven's sake...
It was a quick 2 night visit. We arrived late Friday night, cabbed it to the
hotel on South Central Park, checked in and cabbed it to
Balthazar for a late night, oh so delicious meal and then back to the hotel to sleeeeep. The trip was so exhausting that first night that we slept SOLID until 1:30pm!! Keep in mind that we were still on Seattle time so that's really just sleeping until 10:30...which is still a feat for us.
Saturday (afternoon) we got up and walked around SOHO for as long as our skin could take the cold. I'm talking COLD folks...those of you in Michigan know exactly what I'm talking about but I don't remember EVER being that cold. We would run from store to store regardless of the store just to warm up. We ate at a cool little bar called
Fanelli's Cafe where we shared a tuna melt and some soup to warm our bones.
Saturday night consisted of going down to
Rockefeller Center to get in line for the really big show. We stood among the parent's of the band. They were beaming with pride. I could not take any pictures while we were in the studio but let me just tell you this, it's so much smaller than it looks on TV. Each set gets set up and torn down during the commercials with remarkable speed. The band did an amazing set. They were spot on with both songs. Everyone from the cast and crew poured out to watch them perform...it was amazing.
After the show we all went back stage and toasted the band and then took off to the after party. I think I had a bit of a bigger idea of what this party was going to be...SNL rented out a restaurant and you had to be on the list to get in. Once inside they asked who you were with and then they set you up at a table with those people....and then everyone ate and drank to their hearts content. There wasn't much schmoozing at all. Just eating and drinking and then...leaving. Trey and I got back to the hotel at 4:30am and quickly asked for a late checkout.
Sunday afternoon we took the subway to Trey's
most favorite place on earth.
If you're ever at a loss for what to get him for his birthday/christmas/kwanza, this is the place to order from. I got a dark chocolate peanut butter chip cookie that lasted me literally all day.
Trey ordered the traditional chocolate chip cookie. So Good.
Then we walked around a bit more, took the subway again, and headed to the airport for our flight home. We landed around 10:30pm and tripped into bed shortly thereafter.
We couldn't have done any of this without some quick help from the
Nyssen family and the
Wilkinson family. Meredith came over and stayed with Tank and then the kids and kept them busy and happy the whole time. We are so thankful to them all.
The rest of the pictures can be found here at my
MobileMe Gallery.
We stayed at Cave B Inn in one of their Cliff houses. It's one of my favorite places to stay...in fact, I wouldn't really go to Sasquatch if we weren't staying at the winery. It's just so nice to be able to head back to a cool shower in the middle of the day.
Grapes on the vine and a side view of other Cliff houses.
The pool that we never went it...I'm hoping that we take the kids with us next year and spend many hours between seeing bands and swimming in this pool.
Chatting in the backyard of Adam and Lynn's Cliff house. They hosted a really great brunch on Sunday morning...
Yeah! Sunshine on my shoulders....makes me happy!!
On stage for....oh, I don't remember...maybe Fleet Foxes?
The Billions crew at a photo shoot.
