THE ELLEN SHOW!!!!!

oh so much fun! Two years ago Keely gave me a wallet for my birthday...inside was some home made tickets to the Ellen show and she told me she was getting tickets. Fast forward two years and i get a call from her screaming,"we are going to Ellen on April 28th!" so we packed up our families and our bags and made a road trip out of it. We had Ellen on Thursday...we ate breakfast at McDonald's where I almost got in a brawl with some lady in the bathroom...well i go in and right after I locked the door there was a knock. I totally assumed it was one of my kids so I Said, "What?" to which this not so kind lady replies..."whachoo mean what? i"ll beat yo A__!" i was dying of laughter and when i opened the door and explained to her that i thought it was one of my kids she quickly apologized for cussing at me. Needless to say that phrase was used quite a bit throughout our weekend. So we get to Ellen a little early so we checked in and the grabbed a bite to eat down the road. We get back to the waiting area and after a while 2 ladies come out to tell us that they will be coming around to visit with us and if they wanted to visit more they would ask us to go back to the green umbrella. She gets to me and asks if i had ever been there before and i told her I was a first timer. She then asked me how many in my party...and then asked us to go back to the umbrella. There are like 50 people back there. They then move us to a back parking lot and put us in a single strait line (execution style) and they come around again and ask us a few questions. So then they ask me to go over to the bungalow and they would be right there. the girls went back to there seats and I was all alone....they then move about 8 of us to this little room and ask us where we are from and what we do, how many kids, what is our favorite thing about the show...i said Know or Go. after that information they proceed to tell us that if we are to be called up that we have to be willing to do anything...and then they asked us to practice how we would react if we were to be called up. So we did that as a group and then individually (awkward.) we then go over to the studio where the girls were already sitting and as I am trying to brief them...someone comes over to us and moves us. And before you know it they are calling my name and... Yep we are playing Know or go. It was so much fun. The whole audience got an ipod touch and then I got $800 bucks for playing the game. Pretty much me and Ellen are best friends now! the next day we went to Disneyland. The kids had so much fun. it was really busy, but for some reason the lines went pretty fast. We had a lot of fun, we even got to dance in the parade with some of the characters. its probably cause i am famous now. anyways, we ended it with a little stop at the beach which was so cold and Grady referred to it as the B----! it was a really fun weekend for us and i totally want to go back to Ellen.