Hot Child in the City

Day Seven

As mentioned before, Garrett had a special pass to the Today Show for being an MSNBC intern, and Elke is in love with Matt Lauer (or as she calls him, "Matty), so we all went down there to watch. Unfortunately, it turned out that Destiny's Child was giving a mini-concert as part of the Today Show's summer concert series, so there were a TON of people there. So Elke and I ended up watching the show from the second story of a building across the street while Garrett was standing right next to the stage and right behind the newsroom. We saw everyone from afar, but it wasn't very exciting.

After that we met up with Garrett and went to McDonald's for breakfast. Then we went to Nintendo World, which was awesome. They had egg-shaped chairs with built-in surround sound in which you could sit for 15 minutes and play the video game of your choice. I played Donkey Konga for a while. It was great fun. But after that we were so tired Elke and I headed home to sleep.

Garrett stayed down there because he had a special tour of the NBC studios ending with a meeting with Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Bryan Williams. When he got back he napped and I woke up and then I decided to go back to sleep and he got up. Then he spent the next 2-3 hours trying to wake me up. I was not happy with him. Elke was asleep too, so there was no point in me getting up.

But then we finally all got up and showered and got dressed and ready to go out to eat. Garrett has been telling me about this Japanese restaurant, Kenka that he and his friends always go to when he's in town for months now, and I have always wanted to go there. So we went down to the East Village and waited for an hour for a table. By the time we were seated it was close to 11.00.

Turns out the wait was worth it. Everything Garrett had ever said about this place was true. We ordered one thing at a time and sat there for hours eating delicious delicious Japanese food while drinking Garrett's favorite Japanese beer and sampling some Sake. They had some crazy things on the menu. We didn't order any of them, but a table near us sang "Happy Birthday" to someone as their waiter delivered him a bull penis. Then they divided it up and ate a piece. Great fun. By the time we left, all three of us were stuffed and drunk. It was wonderful, and not nearly as expensive as it could have been (but it certainly wasn't cheap). We will definitely be going there again before we leave.

After that we had another late-night subway disaster where we kept waiting and the train kept not coming. Yet again, there were no signs saying that the train wouldn't be running, so we had to figure it out for ourselves. Of course, it was probably our own fault for waiting an entire HOUR before getting a cab. By the time we got home it was nearly 3.00 and we had all but completely sobered up. But we solved that real quick and then watched TV until 4.30 a.m.

posted by Megan @ 8:26 PM