One Crazy Saturday!!

For those of you who know my husband well enough you know how hooked on the reality show Deal or No Deal he is. He watches this show almost every night it is on!! So naturally when we heard they would be having open auditions up in Salt Lake today we considered going up so he could audition!! This was not an easy task because we knew there would probably be thousands of people and Mike is kind of shy. Well after some encouragement from his family Mike decided to go and represent himself and his twin brother at the open auditions!! Mikes brother couldn't be there. So friday after mike got off work we decided to go up early this morning at about 4:00 A.M. Well when we saw the news and they showed the line of people already there we knew we had to take drastic measures!! SO we ended up camping out there at about 1:00 A.M!! Crazy?? I mean this was a once in a lifetime chance!! So I spent the night in line with mike ( well actually he was asleep in the car most of the time I sat out in the cold!!) At about 7:00 they said the line would start to move inside the building and by now we were in the middle of about several thousand people!! Then the chaos began as they started letting people in!! I mean no more lines really just herds running towards the front! So we got inside in line and waited another 2 1/2 hrs with still more people! So finally we get to the front and mikes parents and sister met up with us as mikes " Supporters." They sent us in to a line with nine other people and we waited our turn to go to the next producer. Well we then ran up to the table shouting and just so excited and they only let mike speak ( which sucked cause we all had our stories ready about the two of them.) Mike had 30 seconds to "WOW" them, they then picked three out of the ten to go on to the next stage! Mike was great he really got into it, and they picked him as one of the three!! They then have a new guy come over and listen to all three and they pick who should go on. As soon as the guy came over mike went off again, and even got the guy to " stone him" AKA hit knuckles! Well the guy asked mike if he was O.K, and even asked if he was like this at home. I said only when the show is on!! I guess he liked mike because he moved on to the next interviews. We were not allowed to go with mike to this next part, but he said it was about the same thing. Well out of the ten people in mikes group they again pick about three. Mike was not picked for the final interviews on Monday, he was pretty bummed and disappointed, but there is still hope he could get called back. The whole experience was quite fun, crazy but fun, and I loved seeing mike so happy!! I am exhausted so I am going to sleep for awhile!!