Anderson Cooper Live!

Last Thursday I drove down to Manhattan to attend a taping of Anderson Coopers’ live show!

It was so much fun 🙂 I attended the show with one of my good friends Alisa. If you’ve been reading my musings for a while, you’ve actually met her before here. 

The tickets for the show are super easy to get. Just head over to the website and email them with the date and number of people and BOOM! Tickets in your inbox. I read that the show will end summer 2013 due to poor ratings, so this is probably why tickets were so easy to request. 

Our arrival time was 10:45am for the 12:45pm taping. We arrived on time and were met with this crazy long line -_- .

Well at least the weather was really nice that day. Once passing security and inside CBS studios we were lead to a waiting room which was overcrowded and stuffy. There was a variety of people and age groups visiting the show today. The majority of which seemed to be tourist and seniors. 

The staff took the opportunity to pass around the wavier forms while we sat packed like sardines for an hour until it was time to line up for seating. 

The guest host was…wait...I don’t think I can say yet. And I don’t think I can talk about much more until the show airs. Anyway it was fun to see how the show operates behind the scenes. Anderson Coopers looks exactly the same in person as he does on TV. He seemed pretty nice and personable as well. 

After almost 2.5 hours of clapping and cheering it was time to go! We stopped at the little tea cafe called Argo. I ordered water and this vegetable brown rice that was infused with mate tea. It was tasty, gluten free , vegan, and only like 300 calories 🙂 

The pictures don’t do any justice. I’m sorry, but it was delicious and all the brown rice is hiding under the sauce. 

After this quick snack we actually headed over to Queens for dinner with a professor from our undergrad. Oh! I’ve known Alisa since we were in undergrad. 8 years later and 2 masters degrees between us we still keep in touch!

Once dinner ended we headed to Grand Central station for some Starbucks coffee and the train.
  I drove back to Connecticut after leaving my amigo. I love outings in NYC. 

It is such a beautiful city especially when you are chilling with family and friends in great weather.