"I can be your hero, baby."

We got up obscenely early this morning because we wanted to see if we could stand in line for tickets to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We went all the way over to 11th Ave. to find that his studio had moved and been replaced with the Colbert Report studio. Unfortunately, you had to be 18 to get stand-by tickets (we're both less than two months away...) so we decided to get some hot chocolate at Dunkin' Donuts instead. We then decided to take the cross-town bus to Times Square, and the schedule said that it would arrive at 11:06. We got to the bus stop at 11:02 to wait. And wait and wait and wait. It wasn't until 11:26 that a bus came. We could have walked there faster.

In Times Square we had a picnic lunch and went to the Virgin Megastore and the M&M store, where we got our M&M colors scanned--Cecilia was silver and Louisa was pink. Good to know. We then walked across the street to look for a subway downtown so we could get some gelato, but we ran into a line of teenagers. We stood bewildered for a minute or two before a young woman came over and asked us if we had tickets for TRL. We said no, and she told us to go wait against the wall. So we did.

We were standing in line when suddenly all the people around us went crazy. They started taking out their cameras and running down the sidewalk. "It's him; it's him." We had no idea who "him" was. But soon the line started moving and we found ourselves inside the building where the MTV studio is located. We waited in more long lines and were finally ushered into the studio, after giving up our wallets, cell phones, and cameras. Luckily, Louisa had already called her mother and walked her through the process of taping TRL on the DVR.

Then we found out who the mysterious man was. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS. He was there to premiere his new video, "Do You Know." He stood within about two feet of us to be interviewed by Damien and then to play ping pong with him. (Anyone who missed today's TRL--probably all of you--can come over to Louisa's house to watch it.) It was beautiful. LaKisha Jones, who just was kicked off American Idol, was also there, but we didn't really know anything about her. Enrique, however, we remembered from way back in his "Hero" and "Escape" days. You can be our hero, Enrique.

Then we finally made it downtown to get some gelato. It was a kind of disappointing gelateria, but nothing could really compare to going on TRL and seeing Enrique Iglesias up close.