Come on Down!

Yesterday Danny and I accomplished a lifelong dream of ours...to go on The Price is Right. Yes, I know, many of you have loftier goals than us, nonetheless we were happy to accomplish it. As far as the game show itself, it was a bit of a disappointment. We got in line at 5:50am and waited for about a half hour until men in red coats came to give us numbers that indicated our place in line. After we got that we were told to be back in about an hour. After breakfast during our break we came back and had to stand in more lines and then you get your priority number...that takes about 2 more hours.

Then, you guessed it, more lines. They take your picture give you a name tag and look at your ID. That takes about 3 hours. Then you get in groups of 10 people at a time and you have a 10 second interview. That's your chance to WOW them, not a strong suit of mine. After that you wait for an hour or so more. Meanwhile we are all really hungry and they have a huge In and Out truck serving food to all the people who work on the show. They continued to have people come through the line and tell us the food is not for us. Oh yeah, and they forgot that the In and Out food was coming that day so they made us wait for even longer because they had to eat their food. Some people were pretty ticked off about it.

We met a lot of great people in line though. We sat by two hilarious, very outspoken black women, who were mother and daughter. The daughter was reading a book called, "Why men love bitches," that pretty much sums up her personality. Danny and I got a big kick out her. We also met two guys in their forties wh0 were jacked up on Red Bull and beer, and only got an hour of sleep the night before. They were hilarious too. There were two tapings of the show that day and they ended up going to the taping after us. I can pretty much guarantee one of them will get on the show because they were outrageously funny.

So, at 1:30pm we finally walked into the studio and it was tiny. They make it look so much bigger on TV. It looks like the set hasn't been updated since the 70's. There was definitely fun parts. They played fun music everyone stood up and danced together in the studio. Drew, as you may have guessed, is hysterical. He kept on apologizing about making us wait for eating the In and Out food and making us hungry, but then he went on too tell us (in great detail) how delicious the food was. He lip synced a song during the commercial and took of his jacket, strutted across the stage, and put on a big production. Everyone loved it.

We met the guy who made it into the Showcase Showdown, so we felt famous by association. They have the applause sign on after every mention of a product and the people behind the cameras get up and wave their arms, and kind of shame you if you don't yell loud enough. Needless to say by the end of the show I felt like a pawn. Regardless, Danny and I are happy we did it. We got to cross off one more thing on our list, and we met a lot of great people. Our show airs on November 3rd. We were sitting in the middle section.

Today we found out some great news. The consulate can process our papers today and give us our visas tomorrow. SO, we're planning on heading down to Argentina on Thursday! We are SO excited. AND we will be able to get back in time for Christmas!!!

I want to thank all of you for your prayers and support through all of this. We will continue to need it, because as history has taught us, we can never be too sure about all the details with immigration, flight plans, etc.

Today we went to Santa Monica to a really swanky restaurant, The Penthouse. Everything was immaculate. It was on the rooftop of The Huntley Hotel. Pictured at the left is the table we sat at. We had two lemonades and one appetizer and our bill was for $25's. We got the crab cakes... two measly crab cakes. I think you really pay for the view and the atmosphere, it was BEAUTIFULLY designed and decorated. It overlooks all of LA. When you go to the bathroom there's a huge window in the stall and you can overlook while you're 'using the facilities'...wonderful.