I'm in Dallas...well Arlington...for American Idol auditions. I've always wondered what it would be like to audition, but never really thought I would. When Meagan asked me to go with her when she auditioned I figured it was my chance. I might as well try, or I'll never know.
Yesterday we left my house around 3 with Meagan's car loaded down with everything that we thought true American Idol contestants needed. We stopped in Lake Jackson because I wanted to get a new shirt for the audition. She ended up buying a shirt and I bought a pair of jeans. They are really great. I think if they don't let me through to Hollywood with these jeans on then they just might be crazy.
After we left LJ we headed on our merry way to The Big "D". After driving through Huntsville we stopped at a relatively new Rest Area. We bought drinks, played on the playground, followed a trail, and picked up a pet rock which we named Hunter (because we found him in "Hunt"sville). We loaded into the car and tried to leave the rest area when all of a sudden Meagan's car wouldn't let her go over 10MPH and when we stopped the car it started to shake, then the check engine light came on. Of course we have no idea about cars, so all I know to check is if the engine is over heated...which it wasn't. After sitting for a few seconds we started the car back up and it ran well. Got us all the way here. The light was still on, but nothing was happening.
When we got near our hotel we couldn't find how to get to it because there was so much construction and the gps didn't know how to navigate through it. We made a million turns and then after one turn I saw something that made me scream.
Cowboys Stadium.
It was beautiful...and I wasn't even that close to it.
I screamed.
Meagan freaked out.
And we almost missed a turn.
When we arrived at our hotel we settled in and were sitting in bed when the news showed a clip of people at the stadium for American Idol. We were confused because on the website it said that people weren't going to be able to camp out and registration wasn't until 8 in the morning. We decided that we needed to trek over to the stadium and see what was going on. It didn't take us very long because our hotel is about 2 miles from the stadium. Sure enough, when we got there there were about 20 cars already in the parking lot and the people were sitting outside of their vehicles in chairs and on blankets watching the stadium like something major was about to happen. I tweeted at that time asking the twitter world if there was a fireworks show that we were not informed about.
We drove around the stadium admiring it's beauty and then drove back to the hotel and tried to sleep.
Didn't happen very easily. We were just so excited.
At first we were planning on waking up around 7, but when we found out that the gates opened at 5, we figured we needed to get up earlier. Meagan woke up at 4 and tried to wake me up at 4:35. Ha! I stayed under the covers until 5 and then after that it took me about 20 minutes to get out of the shower.
We made our way back over to the stadium. This time there weren't just around 50 people. There were about 2,000 people (maybe more) already lined around the sides of the stadium.
It wasn't too long of a wait, or at least not as long as I'd been expecting. We sat on the ground for about an hour and a half. During that time we made two new friends. One girl named Holly who was there with her dad and a guy name Phillip who was laying on the ground next to us when Meagan told us that we should all lay on each other's stomachs and rest. He awoke when he realized that she was saying that I needed to lay on his tummy. That's one way to make friends I suppose.
We made our way all the way up the line together, having a grand ole time the whole way there. The heat was crazy...we were all sweating, but it made walking into Cowboys Stadium even better. We didn't get to walk very far into it, so I can't tell you everything about it. But it already looked amazing. Amazing I tell you.
After we received our wristbands and tickets we went to breakfast at iHop and then came back to the hotel room to rest before we hit up Dallas.
Meagan is now napping and I am blogging. Great rest.
We're not sure what we are going to. Maybe just sightsee...maybe go to the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum...maybe catch a movie. Whatever it is, it'll be great. :)
There are pictures on my Picasa web albums and on my facebook.
I'm going to finish reading My Sister's Keeper now...I'm so close to the end it's killing me.
