February 19th!

Make sure at 10:00 a.m. on CBS you tune into...

The Price Is Right

Yup we went to The Price Is Right on Tuesday. It was a blast-and-a-half. I will give you the "deets" in time frame format. Away we go:

4:00 am- Wake up(yes, very long day).

4:30 am- Lisa and Katie pick me and Austin up.

5:45 am- We are standing in line at CBS studios, we were approximately 120th in line, at 5:45 in the morning! The first people in line got there at 2:00, get a life.

6:00 am- We have already cried twice from laughing so hard, it is going to be a good day.

6:15 am- We are given our place in line ticket and told to return at 7:45

6:16 am- Head across the street to a little place for some bagels.

6:18 am- The line shoots out the door, damn do we have good timing or what?

6:30 am- Head back to the parking structure that we parked in, I'd say close to half mile away from where the line was, with all the walking to and from elevators and what not.

6:35 am- Decide just to head back to the studio since an hour is just enough time to do nothing.

6:40 am- Nearly all the way there, Lisa realizes she forgot her place in line ticket.

6:50 am- Grabs tickets. Then we decide that we have to find a bathroom before we head back because we have to pee so bad, and we are not sure if there is one there. So we cruise The Grove(which is extremely nice, by the way) searching high and low, but of course nothing is open.

7:00 am- A gardener speaking broken English(correction: barely even English) tells us where a bathroom is, but the directory says otherwise so we head in another direction.

7:05 am- A security guard says we can just use the employee restroom.

7:08 am- The man in the restroom says otherwise. Ugh! What do some kids have to do to get a freaking toilet?

7:10 am- The polite man who lovingly wouldn't let us use the restroom points us in the direction of a "nicer, cleaner" bathroom(the one the gardener tried to tell us about).

7:15 am- Finally the business is done and we head back to the studio.

7:25 am- Commence: Sitting In Line

7:50 am- They have us divided into rows and hand us yet another ticket. Then they proceed to tell us that people watching the 1:00 show(us), must return at 8:30 for processing. Great! Yet again, just enough time to do nothing.

9:30 am- They finally finish checking everyone in and begin to do what they said they would start an hour prior. They tell us to sit on a bench.

10:00 am- We are told to switch benches, well progress, right? Wrong. We sit there and do nothing.

10:45 am- We are given our name tags!

11:00 am- The line begins to move!

11:30 am- Our group of 12 gets interviewed by a producer.

11:35 am- We are told to walk around the corner, to find yet again, another bench! Woo!

11:36 am- Hand over all cellular devices, cameras, etc. AKA: cut off from civilization.

12:30 pm- The doors open and we are led inside! It was so fun, and weird at the same time. The studio was TINY!!!!! It was weird because it looks so much bigger on TV. While we wait for the taping to begin, they are playing music and Austin, Katie, Lisa, and I are all standing in our aisle dancing. It was a blast, then "Here's Drew Carey!!!" Don't get me wrong, Bob Barker will always have a place in my heart, but I thought Drew was awesome. He was talking to nearly everyone in the audience and joking around the whole show. Another weird thing, the stage. All show long there were cameras everywhere, obviously, but they were in the middle of the stage and all over the place. It was so funny to see.

2:00 pm- We head out, and decide just to drive home and get food close to home, to beat traffic.

2:07 pm- Quickly realize traffic was kicking our asses. We were going nowhere.

4:15 pm- We get to our front door.

4:25 pm- I pass out.

5:30 pm- Wake up and continue the day.

Overall, as bad as I made it sound, it was an awesome and day. It was so much fun and I can't wait til we do it again when everyone is 18. We had so much fun, laughed all morning long, and had a great time "people watching". It is truly an exhausting experience though, once is enough, for a while anyways.

Lisa if you see this, thanks again for the tickets, can't wait to actually get on the show.

Thanks for caring,
Hasta la bye-bye.