Park Place: A M E R I C A N I D O L ! ! ! ! !

Yes, we finally made it to American Idol. What a day that was! It all started out with the fact that I was suppose to have contacts before this event. Well I had my contacts for two days and the right one ripped. So they ordered me more with an eye appointment for the day of American Idol. I thought good! I will have them for the show. Well, they called me in the morning and told me that the contact didn't show up so we had to reschedule the appointment for a later day! Dang. Now I have to wear my glasses. So we head that day to run some errands up north and to go have lunch with my mom before we went. Well we got clear to Spanish Fork when I realized that I forgot the tickets. So we had to turn around and go back to Nephi and get the tickets. (but hey Kurtis, I remembered you change of clothes! And also the other tickets that we were desperately trying to sell). Any Hoo--- Then we got to my moms and went to lunch at the Art City Trolley in Springville. That was good. Then came time to go pick up Kurtis at work and head up to the E-center. Got him all changed and ready to go..so off we went. Ooooops, Jill, where are the tickets we need to sell.....ohe no there gone, I know they were here. We stop, we search the car, we panic...but hey at least we have ours to get it. Kurtis says "we'll just have to take that loss" when out of the blue the tickets are spotted way under my seat! Whew. Ok we can head on the road again. So we hit the exit for the E Center and get in the lane that the sign told us to. Well after about 10 min. or so we decide the line isn't moving, so we will go down around the block and back. Well everyone else had the same idea. So doing that wasn't any faster. When we finally get our chance to go through the light, low and behold we end up in the turning lane instead of the straight away lane. So Kurtis has a bright idea to turn into the businesses parking lot and get back on track. Well.......no turn off into the businesses so back onto the freeway we had to go. Needless to say, we took the long way around to the E-Center. Ok, so we finally get there. We wait in line. No one there to buy our extra tickets. I'm loaded up with my camera bag which had my gum, camera and two lenses, and our little (not to mention broken camera thanks to Mike) and the girls autograph books (just in case). Well we get to the door, they guy searches my bag and tells me I can't use my camera with removable lenses. So kurtis being a nice guy said he would take my bag back to the car and we could meet him inside. So me and the girls get inside, find our way to our seats and were wowed at how close we were to the stage. Took a few pictures, then it hits me, I DON'T HAVE MY GLASSES!!!!! So I call Kurtis to see if he was back inside yet....well he was. Luckily he had our unsold tickets with him to go back and get my glasses from the car and use it to get back in. Great plan. Then he calls me from the car....."I can't find your glasses" AHHHHHHHHHHHH! How will I see. I know I brought them. Well guess what, he found them ......Where? you ask.......well out of the blue my glasses appeared to him from under my seat! I must have a collection under there. So he got back in, we got all situated, seats were great......untill.........TALL PEOPLE! yes tall people had to be sitting right in front of us. Luckily Mike and Sams seats were still great. We still got a great glance every once in a while. I think the E-Center must be on a tight budget too, because i really believe they forgot to turn on some air....or even a vent for that matter. Stuffy stuffy and of course Steph was wearing her stinky feet shoes and yes we could surely smell them. But then the concert got started and all was well. Everyone was great. Even the ones that were not our favorite did well. But of course David and David did awesome. They were soooooo good. Mike bawled her head off when David A. came out. We took some pictures with that wonderful broken camera. The screen to view the pictures is broke. So we just had to hope were were actually getting a picture of something good. Wish I could have taken my good camera. I could have had some awesome shots. But these will have to do. But after all is said and done. It created some great memories for our family.

Thee girls at the stage before the show. They were so excited!