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Yes, that's right, Jason and I were at Saturday Night Live this weekend and got to see the McCain/Fey duo in action.

I have to say, this experience was by far the coolest thing I have ever done in New York. In order to get tickets to SNL you have to send an email to NBC during the month of August and your name is picked from a lottery. This was the third time I had sent in my info and I guess it was a charm. The timing couldn't have been more perfect. I was a little disappointed that Amy Poehler had her baby last week but seeing Tina Fey as Sarah Palin more then made up for it. We figured one of the presidential candidates would be making an appearance and a couple of weeks ago there were rumors that Obama would be on the show but it wasn't until Friday morning that we found out that John McCain (The Maverick) would be on.

We arrived early and stood in line for 2 hours before the show even began but going early paid off when we got seats right in the middle. Because John McCain was there we had to go through very tight security and the studio was crawling with the secret service. When we sat down we could already guess some of the skits we would be seeing. Directly in front of us was the set for The View and over on the side was the Target set, which Jason was very excited to see, Kristin Wig is his favorite and especially when she does her Target skits.

The host for the night was Ben Affleck and the special musical guest was David Cook. I have to say, Ben did a great job. I loved his Alec Baldwin impersonation but thought Keith Olbermann was a little overbearing (which is exactly how he really is). As soon as Ben would finish a skit there was a woman immediately by his side dragging him away to prepare for the next skit. It was very interesting to attend SNL and see what goes on behind the scenes. As we were watching a skit on one side of the stage the crew was busy putting together a set on the other side. But what I thought was most interesting was how they test their material on the audience during the dress rehearsal and if it doesn't go well they cut it from the live show. There were several things we saw that didn't make it. In fact, during the Weekend Update one of the stories Seth Meyers told wasn't that funny and he remarked that he could read the audience like a book and that one would be for dress rehersal only. We noticed little things like Ben's hat from the Target scene was missing to a whole skit was cut out. At first I was a little disappointed that I didn't get tickets for the live show but I am really glad we got to go to the dress rehearsal, we were able to see more skits and then watch the live show and see how they changed it.
My favorite's of the evening were the McCain/Palin skit, The View with Alec Baldwin, The Weekend Update (especially the voting machine malfunction song) and the Target skit.


We laughed the entire night and we even think we personally got a wave from John and Cindy after the show.

For Halloween we attended the Greenwich Village parade for a third year in a row and while there were some pretty crazy costumes, this year I felt like people just weren't as creative as they have been in the past. Everything was pretty much a repeat from last year, there were way to many jokers and every female with long brown hair was Sarah Palin (not original at all). There were a few that Jason and I felt like we needed to close our eyes but I was able to get some pictures of a couple of good ones.
We thought this Joker looked cool sitting on top of the phone booth


Yes, that's a man





Us at the parade


** Now that it's November, Sheena's Christmas Playlist is officially back on the blog. Enjoy!