Sarah's in San Diego :): July 2009

Oh how I wish I would have heard that phrase in reference to MY name last week!

Last week was our projects "So Cal Fun Day!" On this day, the community life team plans a WHOLE day of fun California activities. For our project, we decided to go to LA and be on the Price is Right! We left San Diego Wednesday morning at 1am and arrived around 3:30am. They start handing out tickets at 6am, so we wanted to make sure that we would all get one! The bus ride there was SO MUCH fun! We were all too excited about the day to want to sleep. However, once we got to the CBS studio to wait outside for a couple hours, we started getting wayyy tired.

After we got our tickets, we were then told to come back at 12:30 to make sure we would get in. At that time it was about 6:15 in the morning...and there was nothing to do in LA. A group of friends at I decided to head to the local Starbucks, get some breakfast and caffeine for the day, and plan out what we're going to do.

After our coffee fix, we then decided to walk the 4 miles up to Hollywood Blvd. to see the walk of fame. It was SO COOL! We went up and down the whole thing (it's super long!) and took pictures with lots of stars. By the time we finished that, it was time to head back to the CBS studios.

Words cannot describe how excited I was to be going on the Price is Right. I'm going to try to put everything that happened a few coherent paragraphs:

We were all put in a line according to our ticket numbers. I was number 13, so I was close to the front! We then had to show our SS cards and licenses to prove that we're citizens. While they were checking those, they made our OFFICIAL Price is Right nametags!! So exciting!! Then we had to wait while they did this with all 315 people. We were then brought in by groups of 12 to do mini interviews with the casting director people. They asked us what we do, what we're studying, and things of that nature. But since there were so many of us, we were able to tell them who we're with and why we're here for the summer. Once that was over, we were brought to another seating area and waited till they finished the interviews with everyone else.

THEN...we were brought in the Price is Right audience!! Ah it was so cool!!! Music was blasting and everyone was so pumped and excited while coming in. Because I was contestant #13, I was SECOND row RIGHT BEHIND where the 4 playing contestants sit! I am definitely on tv! Every time they contestants would place their bid, I was sitting right in the background :) and there were soooo many times that they would stick a camera in our face and tell us to cheer :)

Sadly, I did not get called down. BUT there were 3 people from our project that were! None of them won, but it was so cool to see them get called down and play!

It was definitely an amazing experience, and I cannot wait till it airs and I can watch it! Speaking of which…everyone tune in on OCTOBER 14^th to the Price is Right!! Look for me in the second row behind the contestants :) You can also watch October 13^th to see the other two project people who were called down.

**I keep trying to upload pictures on the trip, but it keeps disconnecting. So check back in a few days and there should be some sweet pictures :)