weekend recap (most of which is extreme makeover details)
a great weekend. kinda busy but still a lot of time to rest which is just what i was wanting.
my chef roomie molly had a dinner party she was doing on sat. nite so i helped her set up on friday nite. the best part about these parties is that i take my seat at our bar with an open mouth while she's prepping and cooking and "test" everything she makes. somebody has to make sure the food is good! and believe me, it ALWAYS is. she made this absolutely fantastic mango pico and ended up having some extra which i eagerly devoured. i think i had like a quart of it... she loves having me and yuna around because we aren't picky eaters and will basically eat anything in front of us. i guess the downfall is that we aren't so much legit critics since our reply to everything is, "mmm...good...more please."
saturday i was super productive...and then super lazy. worked out, cleaned my car inside and out, cleaned the house, my room....and then watched 3 movies in a row. basically a perfect day if you ask me.
sunday case and i went out to the extreme makeover house b/c the family was set to arrive home anytime between 12-4. so we got there at about 12...the fam got home around 245. and it was HOT. it was quite confusing...middle of december and im wearing a tank top and sweating profusely. but anyways, it was crazy packed..i think they said there was about 3,000 people out there which is a lot to pack on two streets. luckily the house was on a corner lot though so you could either be in front of the house and actually see the house, or you could be on the side street and although you couldn't see the house, you could see the family facing the house when the bus moved. so case and i were on the side and even though we got there 3 hours before the family arrived, were still pretty far back. they lined up all the worker volunteers on the side so they actually kinda blocked our view as well but i guess that's ok since they did actually build the house.
being there you learn some of the ins and outs of the tv show making (that sounds like an official term yeah?). for one, we got there at about 1215 and got real excited bc right at that moment we saw the limo pull up and everyone is yelling and cheering like crazy. but then the limo keeps going and we realize that it's all fake. they just film all sorts of test shots and who knows if the one that is aired is the "real one." they did this for other parts such as the crowd getting hyped before the fam gets there, the bus taking off, etc. and then when the family actually gets there that's all real (there aren't multiple takes for that, thank goodness). so after ty does his sentimental schpiel with the fam, the crowd gets to start the famous "move that bus!!" chant which i won't lie, it's pretty exciting. however...then the camera crew has to move to get the perfect shot of the bus leaving (in case the fake ones don't end up being great, i guess) and that takes a while so eventually the chanting dies down (quite anticlimactic). but then, the cameras are ready and they have the crowd start chanting again (and even though it's round 2, it's still pretty exciting) and the bus actually moves, the family reacts, everyone cheers, etc etc. and if we had been closer and could actually see the family i'm sure it would have been more exciting. i did take video on my camera but we were so far away and all the workers were blocking so you can really only see the top of the dad's head. so, i'm hoping some videos will show up on youtube or something soon.
oh, another thing...we were on the side by the garage which, up until the moment the family arrived, still had a bunch of stuff in it. they were actually closing the garage doors when the limo pulled up. and we heard from a lady (who sounded like she knew what she was talking about) that the house wasn't actually completely finished and so they were going to bring the fam home and film all the outside stuff, then take them to a hotel that nite while they finish, and then bring them back the next day and film the inside tour parts. the family did actually go into the house on saturday so i imagine the house is still pretty much done but it might just be little things here and there that need to be done to make the tv show look the best. and that's understandable...they did build a 7 bedroom, 5.5 bath house in like 106 hrs or something - let em have an extra day.
like i said, i took some video and pictures but we were so far away that they weren't fantastic. but you can click on this link here and there are some pretty good pictures there that will show the progress and the "finished house." oh, ps...the house is absolutely GINORMOUS. and what's funny is that i heard an interview with the show producer on the radio last week and they specifically asked her how they handle the issue of creating these huge houses in a neighborhood where the rest of the houses are quite the opposite. the producer even said that they ran into that problem in the past but since then they've really worked on making the houses fit in better and that this house would have a lot of additions and differences on the inside but the outside wouldn't stand out too dramatically. um...HUGE LIE. don't get me wrong, the house is absolutely beautiful and you can see that from the pictures, but there is absolutely no way that you could drive down that street and not see the mansion from a block away.
ok i guess that's all you could ever want to know about that and more. it was fun though, im glad i went. the show airs feb/march and it will be cool to watch it and think that it all took place in austin. plus, im dying to know what the inside looks like!!!
my chef roomie molly had a dinner party she was doing on sat. nite so i helped her set up on friday nite. the best part about these parties is that i take my seat at our bar with an open mouth while she's prepping and cooking and "test" everything she makes. somebody has to make sure the food is good! and believe me, it ALWAYS is. she made this absolutely fantastic mango pico and ended up having some extra which i eagerly devoured. i think i had like a quart of it... she loves having me and yuna around because we aren't picky eaters and will basically eat anything in front of us. i guess the downfall is that we aren't so much legit critics since our reply to everything is, "mmm...good...more please."
saturday i was super productive...and then super lazy. worked out, cleaned my car inside and out, cleaned the house, my room....and then watched 3 movies in a row. basically a perfect day if you ask me.
sunday case and i went out to the extreme makeover house b/c the family was set to arrive home anytime between 12-4. so we got there at about 12...the fam got home around 245. and it was HOT. it was quite confusing...middle of december and im wearing a tank top and sweating profusely. but anyways, it was crazy packed..i think they said there was about 3,000 people out there which is a lot to pack on two streets. luckily the house was on a corner lot though so you could either be in front of the house and actually see the house, or you could be on the side street and although you couldn't see the house, you could see the family facing the house when the bus moved. so case and i were on the side and even though we got there 3 hours before the family arrived, were still pretty far back. they lined up all the worker volunteers on the side so they actually kinda blocked our view as well but i guess that's ok since they did actually build the house.
being there you learn some of the ins and outs of the tv show making (that sounds like an official term yeah?). for one, we got there at about 1215 and got real excited bc right at that moment we saw the limo pull up and everyone is yelling and cheering like crazy. but then the limo keeps going and we realize that it's all fake. they just film all sorts of test shots and who knows if the one that is aired is the "real one." they did this for other parts such as the crowd getting hyped before the fam gets there, the bus taking off, etc. and then when the family actually gets there that's all real (there aren't multiple takes for that, thank goodness). so after ty does his sentimental schpiel with the fam, the crowd gets to start the famous "move that bus!!" chant which i won't lie, it's pretty exciting. however...then the camera crew has to move to get the perfect shot of the bus leaving (in case the fake ones don't end up being great, i guess) and that takes a while so eventually the chanting dies down (quite anticlimactic). but then, the cameras are ready and they have the crowd start chanting again (and even though it's round 2, it's still pretty exciting) and the bus actually moves, the family reacts, everyone cheers, etc etc. and if we had been closer and could actually see the family i'm sure it would have been more exciting. i did take video on my camera but we were so far away and all the workers were blocking so you can really only see the top of the dad's head. so, i'm hoping some videos will show up on youtube or something soon.
oh, another thing...we were on the side by the garage which, up until the moment the family arrived, still had a bunch of stuff in it. they were actually closing the garage doors when the limo pulled up. and we heard from a lady (who sounded like she knew what she was talking about) that the house wasn't actually completely finished and so they were going to bring the fam home and film all the outside stuff, then take them to a hotel that nite while they finish, and then bring them back the next day and film the inside tour parts. the family did actually go into the house on saturday so i imagine the house is still pretty much done but it might just be little things here and there that need to be done to make the tv show look the best. and that's understandable...they did build a 7 bedroom, 5.5 bath house in like 106 hrs or something - let em have an extra day.
like i said, i took some video and pictures but we were so far away that they weren't fantastic. but you can click on this link here and there are some pretty good pictures there that will show the progress and the "finished house." oh, ps...the house is absolutely GINORMOUS. and what's funny is that i heard an interview with the show producer on the radio last week and they specifically asked her how they handle the issue of creating these huge houses in a neighborhood where the rest of the houses are quite the opposite. the producer even said that they ran into that problem in the past but since then they've really worked on making the houses fit in better and that this house would have a lot of additions and differences on the inside but the outside wouldn't stand out too dramatically. um...HUGE LIE. don't get me wrong, the house is absolutely beautiful and you can see that from the pictures, but there is absolutely no way that you could drive down that street and not see the mansion from a block away.
ok i guess that's all you could ever want to know about that and more. it was fun though, im glad i went. the show airs feb/march and it will be cool to watch it and think that it all took place in austin. plus, im dying to know what the inside looks like!!!
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