As I mentioned last week, last year, we started watching American Idol with Maile – we were looking for a show Christine and I could watch with her that wasn’t some mind-numbing cartoon. American Idol fit the bill pretty well – she loved the singing, its a “family” show – it led us to some interesting conversations with her when different things would come up – and its kind of inspiring to see these kids work hard to achieve their goals.
With this season being the last, a few months back I had the idea that it would be really cool if I could figure out a way to get us to a taping of the show before it ended. I realized I actually had a college friend that worked at Fox and a few emails later he agreed to help me out – which was totally awesome of him!
So Thursday, Maile and I boarded a plane and headed down to LA!
Before we could go to the show though, we needed to set the stage – so we took in some of the sites around the hotel. We were staying at the W Hollywood – which was right in a pretty seedy part of Hollywood – but I wanted Maile to have the full experience so we headed out…
(NOTE: Some of these pictures are from Thursday before we went to the show and some are from Friday AM when we had some more time to kill before heading back to SF.)
Selfie in the Lyft - we have arrived and are ready to rock!
Maile doing her best fancy hotel pose in our fancy hotel...
To say Maile was excited is an understatement...
Incredibly, the very first star we saw right outside the hotel was J. Lo's!
Maile was very impressed that my feet and hands matched up with Matt Damon's - and we shared a first name to boot 🙂
Roof top pool. So. Cool.
Julia Roberts was kind enough to take a picture with Maile Girl!
Taylor Swift and Lady Gage too 🙂
Yep, Maile has her Beyonce nailed!
More to come…
