So December 8, 2007 I tried out with one of my bestest friends Naomi for the Amazing Race. We had talked about trying out before we both served missions for our church. Naomi was super sick and I ended up covering for her a lot at work. However, we ended up still making the trek to Ft. Lauderdale. It was totally awesome! We got there late at night and we stayed in this really dumpy motel. It stank really bad - but was the cheapest place we could find. We had walked up to the line for the Amazing Race and it was in this place where there is the BODIES exhibit (I don't know if you have heard of it, but it is a bunch of dead bodies and you can look at all the muscles and things of the body - sounded cool) - well it was a really happening place at night - tons of clubs, music, drinking. There were about 3 teams in line about 1:30 AM. So we went to the hotel and slept - we wouldn't have gotten any sleep there. We woke up really early and got in line - we were nearby some sweet people. We played Phase 10 - a game that lasted about 3 hours - we talked, filled out applications, jammed to music. There were some interesting stories of people. It was totally awesome being there and doing it. We were team 18 in line. Open call auditions were only for 2 hours (1-3pm) - we got done about 1/2 hour into it. I was amazed at how people were still showing up to get in line at 1:30 pm. We drove by later that day about 2:45 and there was still a huge line! No way did half those people get interviewed - because they cut it off at 3pm! It was so nerve-wracking. We had 1.5 minutes to tell who we were and how we would win amazing race 2008. We were rattling off our reasons and the guy held up his hands to tell us that there was 10 seconds left - we thought he was saying to stop. We stopped and he said you have 10 seconds left - so I just was like "UHHHHHHHHHH..." and then added "because we are amazing!" - they laughed at us - we left. I thought I would faint. But it was totally fun. Ft. Lauderdale is a pretty cool city. Call-backs are Dec./Jan. for pre-liminaries...Feb. is Finals and the show films in April. Say a lot of prayers and many Hail Marys and we might get it. How awesome would that be! But at least we tried and I can say I auditioned for a reality show. I think of all of the people there we for sure had the best story. Both returned missionaries. She served in Germany and learned German and I served in Texas and learned some sort of spanish. We have known each toher since I was born and have been friends since then, but never had we spent more than 8 hours together - we even went to college at the same place and everything. I could go on, but I won't.
