So the weekend is over and it was quite an adventure. We went to the audition on Friday afternoon all ready to take the test. We took it...totally different subjects than we had been studying. I can't give any details because we had to sign a confidentiality agreement but it was kinda tough. There were about 20 teams in our timeslot. They only accepted two teams of the twenty to be interviewed by the casting directors. And we were one of the two teams!! We went straight in for a 5 minute interview complete with pictures and videotaping. It was fun, we made them laugh and we felt confident. We were pretty excited for the rest of the day, went to lunch, dinner. Then we sat down and tried to remember all of the questions on the test and remembered all but one. We figured out that our combined score was only 53%...hahaha...kinda sad. So I don't think it was just the test that got us through to the interview...must've been our winning personalities. :)

They called us Saturday night as they said they would but sadly it was to tell us that they had gone with another team. We were pretty shocked because we felt so good about our interview but I think it must've come down to what they were looking for. It could have been our test scores that decided it, who knows. We were also a lot younger than most of the people that were there. And after looking at the people that were on the show last year - it looks like they have different types they need to satisfy and they must have just gone with a different team to be the "young ones". We wallowed in our rejection, ate tons of comfort food and ended up feeling much better about ourselves. :) It was really fun and I am really glad that we tried for it. There is another chance for us to possibly be on the show - there is an individual test online on Feb 14th to put together a random wild card team. We are all going to take it just to see how we do. Plus there is always next year and at least we already have the costumes! :)

On to the next adventure...



marnie