I haven't blogged in so long. I will eventually catch up in order to keep the Keeler family record alive and well. But this one just couldn't wait...First of all, as the title suggests, our dear sweet baby Lindsay who was born now 13 years ago - is an official teenager. How else do you celebrate that big birthday but to take said teenager to the most most popular show on tv - American Idol. I may sound like the best mom ever for planning the best birthday ever but I can't take that much credit. I signed up on the waiting list for American Idol tickets over a year ago. Amazingly I finally got the email telling me I had 4 tickets for Tuesday May 5th- Lindsay's actual birthday. Yeah, we screamed for a while. How cool is that? Well, maybe not as cool as it sounds.
The big day came and after waiting for over 3 hours we got into the studio ready for the dress rehearsal. We were standing right in front next to the stage- Ryan came out and things were looking great. Then Disaster #1 strikes: the stage manager, who was following Ryan down the glowing stairs, actually fell off the stairs because they retracted too soon. She caught herself and was hanging 20 feet above the studio trying to get herself back up. That didn't work and so she fell and crash landed on the stage. Chaos. Paramedics. Blood. Little kids crying. More waiting... Birthday takes a major downturn.
Fortunately, she was okay. But they had to take her to the hospital. The paramedics carried her out on the stretcher through the crowds as she gave us all the thumbs up. But the show must go on. Birthday party is back on! Ryan starts up again - we get excited to see the finalists come out. Then disaster #2 strikes. The big A.I. tower malfunctions and the metal globe falls off its axis, but keeps spinning. It is hitting lights and sending glass spraying across the stage the whole things looks like it might fall down. Lindsay and I were literally right underneath the tower. It took us a few seconds to figure out what was going on -the crowd was screaming and the staff was yelling to clear the area. Everyone ran across the judges area to the other side of the stage. As we were all trying to catch our breath and figure out what would happen next, Lindsay and I found ourselves standing right next to Ryan Seacrest. Well, I couldn't let that opportunity pass us by. Wanting to be a good mom, I tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Hi, Ryan, it's my daughter's birthday today." He was really nice and shook Lindsay's hand and actually patted her head lovingly. He apologized for all the craziness and said this usually doesn't happen! Basically, we all shared a moment. Then, they told us we had to leave. Yeah, after all that they just made us leave. The street was lined with ambulances to take away the wounded - luckily there weren't any.
We were depressed and dejected and slightly in shock over what had just happened. We were heading over to the Cheesecake factory to drown our sorrows in delicious food. When we passed Tracy Morgan walking through the Grove. 30 Rock is our faaaaavorite show so we were very excited. He was nice enough to take a picture with us. 
Yes, my eyes are closed! Blurg! But Linds looks so cute! Birthday looking not quite as bad! Two star encounters on the first day of teenagerhood is pretty good. Cheesecake and Anthropologie didn't hurt either. Luckily the story continues and gets better in my next post! Happy Birthday Lindsay!
3 comments:
"Blurg!" - that seriously cracked me up.
Sounds like Lindsay's day was pretty cool, considering. I heard yesterday was too!
Happy birthday to Lindsay..what day - and glad that she went again yesterday....sorry Finley ate the piece of cake he brought her to school...he owes her one!
And Tracy Morgan...cannot tell you how much we love that show...that's the only show we HAVE to watch online! It is the best....so many favorite lines!
Happy day to Lindsay - still sounds like an exciting day to me!
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