Fabulous Foto Friday

This was one of the silliest, craziest, funniest things that I ever did. My little sister (the one squatting) decided one day that she wanted to go be on The Price is Right. Her husband traveled a lot so she had lots of free plane ticket points, hotel points, and car rental points. When she sets her mind to something, it happens. SO . . . after making matching shirts (of course), we took off for California one day in December 2004. I left my sweet little Z who was only 9 months old. Two of my friends traded off watching him during the day (thanks guys -- 1st time away from him) and Jer took care of him after work at night -- yeah I was still nursing and he wouldn't take a bottle so he didn't have milk (he did eat other food though) for 2 days!

We got there in the evening (my mom and I took a direct flight on her frequent flyer miles and the other three had to have layovers in Las Vegas -- sorry) and all stayed in one hotel room. We got up really early and stood in line at CBS television studios to get our ticket to even get onto the property a few hours later. I know my sister had to request tickets before we even went to California, but I can't remember what that got us, because we still didn't know if we would get in or not. We walked around and then went back to sit on benches in another long line. We played hand held games and just talked. We got to leave for lunch and then we were back again. We had to fill out paper work and got our cool name tags. When the lines started moving is when you actually found out if there would be enough room for everyone. If you went with a big group and got advanced tickets you didn't have to do all of this waiting around stuff and until all the large groups come, they can't guarantee the rest of you are in (note to self if we ever do this again, get a big group together). We finally got to the interview part -- all this time we were outside under awnings. My littlest sister got her really big smile going and we all noticed that they kept looking at her. They asked everyone a quick question and then we waited a little bit more in another outdoor section and then we went into the studio.

It was so much smaller than it looks on T.V. and it looked a little ghetto :) We were kind of sad because we didn't all fit on one row so my little brother was behind us, but we made the best of it!! It started so quickly after that and it was so crazy. My little sister was called with the beginning 4 and they even pronounced our last name correctly :) We were all laughing so much. It was so surreal!! She got up fourth and won a hammock to get up on stage. She gave Bob a kiss on the cheek and then played "Squeeze Play" where she won an electric piano, which is perfect for her!! She didn't win the big wheel, but got really close. Her moment in the limelight was over. She didn't get to sit with us the rest of the time which was sad. She later told us that she could see Bob's card and knew what game she would be playing if she won the bid and she watched the show enough (my mom watched it almost every morning) she knew it wouldn't be a big prize, but she didn't want to risk not getting up at all. She was cute and fun and did a fantastic job. I was so happy she got chosen -- I didn't want to be! Right after the show she had to decide if she wanted the gifts, because she had to pay the taxes on them. So after a call to my Dad, she ended up getting them :) Even after a really long day, we had such a great time -- once in a lifetime!!

The picture is all of us (me, my mom, my two sisters and my little brother) in the parking garage that we parked in. It was after the show and we have the card with my sister's name on it that they hold up so you know they are calling your name, because you really can't hear well with all of the yelling and also an autographed copy of Bob that my sister got for being on the show. You can't really see it, but the CBS Studios are behind us :) What great memories!!

The show didn't air until February and my whole family got together to watch it -- I have it on DVD if you ever want to see it :)