So my mom got tickets to the dress rehearsal last week for American Idol, but we weren’t able to make it to the show. She got an email again and got tickets to the dress rehearsal this week for the guys. We were very excited and definitely wanted to go. I’ve gotten tickets to the main show several times throughout the years, but I’ve never actually been able to go to a show. We didn’t care if it was just a rehearsal, we were just happy to go. We left early to get some coffee, a snack, and print out our tickets so we could head out on our way.

We pulled in to The Grove parking lot (3rd Level, space 437 to be exact) around 12:15ish. After parking and walking about a half mile to stand in line, we noticed a camera man and a girl walking with him. Found out they were actually from GSN – Game Show Network. They were interviewing people in line about GSN and what game shows we watch and what hosts we like. They were really cool. Mom and I took like 3 minutes trying to remember Donny Osmond’s name… duh! He was the host of Pyramid, and we always liked watching that.

So we stood around texting and talking, and about 12:40pm I see this really nice GTO (I believe that’s what it was) pull out of the CBS parking lot and kind of stop right in front of us. I looked up and saw the guy trying to pull out into traffic. I was admiring his car and also noticing that he was talking on his little hands-free device, and thought “wow, that guy looks familiar”. I finally realized it was actually Tom Bergeron, host of Dancing with the Stars. So, first of all, he drives a really nice car. Secondly, he follows the law, because he was using his little hands-free device. Lastly, the guy is just cool. That was neat seeing him. I’ve been to a taping of DWTS, and Tom is just hilarious.

So about 1:00pm, a lady named April came by and started counting up everyone. We got numbers 32 and 33. When we first drove by before parking, there were only about 10 people in line, so 20 more showed up by the time we parked and walked, but it was okay. We felt confident that we’d get in.

See pictures from the day here: http://littlebitsofnonsense.tumblr.com/post/440888630/americanidolphotos

~Will write more tomorrow… Very sleepy… Need rest…