Amazingly broke after a ridiculous adventure to the Amazing Race

About two weeks ago, I was thinking about how The Bachelor is the craziest show out there because the contestants and bachelor talk about marriage so freely. I mean, surely some of them have seen any VH1 ...of love show out there. Most of the time the person looking for love isn't even with the person they pick by the time the entire season has aired. From that thought, I had a whole stream of consciousness that eventually lead me to looking up The Amazing Race casting calls. Surely enough, they were right in the middle of casting, but the closest call was in Yonkers NY, which is totally far away. Not knowing you could simply video yourself and send that in, I convinced Lauren to make the journey with me.

We thought we could do it on about $60 each. Plus, my Mom through in $50 to make it happen. We got to Raleigh (4 hours) and realized that we didn't have a video to submit (and thought that it was mandatory). We got to Richmond (8 hours?) and realized that our funds were going much more quickly than anticipated. We got to Reston VA where we were going to stay for the night (10 hours) and realized that we were much hungrier than the can of tomato soup we brought and thought we could live off of for dinner that night.

The next morning, I saw a crazy crash on the road. I hope those people are ok. We had a fight about an hour outside of NY, and tried to turn around but thought we were lost. By the time I felt that we should just pull off and try to get a free wireless signal, New York NY was outside of our window. It completely crept up on me. I figured that we had several hours to wait in line, and hopefully we could pull it together.

The day went totally up from there. Our linemates, Victoria and her hubby Stephen, were totally adorable, and indulged us in all of our silly jokes. They also offered us fries like, 100 times in the span of 2 minutes which was super nice. Then we met these two middle-aged twins who claimed that on their application, the famous person they both thought they were most like was Bill Cosby, so we called them the Cosby twins. Also, the casino that the auditions were in gave us $10 each! Turns out that that doesn't really translate into real money. They only paid us $2. Then, we stopped at a bagel shop, which gave us a free bagel and mini-cheesecake. Aweesssommme!

The ride home started at 4 pm and ended at 6 am. And, a snowstorm started and lasted the last 6 hours. It was hateful.

We're hoping that our Southern charm gets us on, cross your fingers!

Also, I had a job interview, and it went really fingers! Double cross your fingers!

xoxo!