Today we were determined to be at ABC even earlier to get good standby tickets for The View. Despite being there the earliest time yet (7:45am) we were still 27 and 28 in line. The saving grace was that there are 2 tapings today. So we went back out for breakfast (Strawberry and banana crepes were awesome), some shopping at Barnes and Noble and rejoined the queue at about 9:30. Again they didn't let anyone in from the standby line and things weren't looking good. We decided to stay in line this time, where we had a pleasant 2 hours with fellow standby people, Joe and Allan from Arizona and Beverly from Canada. We had a great time chatting and just passing the time.
For the second taping they eventually let in a few people from the standby line. When they got to us only 3 could go in, Allan and Joe were ahead of us so they went first, at this point I said goodby to Phil (with only a brief second thought) and headed in. Some batting of eye lids - from Joe, Allan and myself, saw Phil and Beverly join us fairly promptly.
The taping of the show was fantastic. It was a lot more relaxed than Letterman but we still had to give a huge effort to clapping, laughing and cheering, we were even allowed to woo hoo here! The ladies were really great and chatted to the audience during the ad breaks. Phil even got to ask Elizabeth for some recommendations for good gluten free restaurants.
It was 2:30pm before we got away from the studios. We headed off to try and find the elusive grey 25 Yankees jersey for Trent. No luck, but we did find a great little sports bar for a very late (4pm) lunch before heading home for a quiet evening.
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