just over a month ago, on july 7th i had quite the random wednesday! first, i met up with angie, kyle and stefanie for a lovely lunch at tavern. after a leisurely lunch (and a glass or two of wine) with my fellow unemployed gals, we headed over to the wit for another round up on roof, the rooftop bar (creative name, right?). the reason for our festive gathering that wed?? well, bachelor try-outs! yes ladies, i tried out.
me and angie - before trying out - at roof.
stef & kyle and me and ang hanging out at roof. the try outs were actually downstairs at the hotel, the wit. in one of the ballrooms.
i know you guys want to hear the story (and even if you don't), here it is! some friends decided to convince ang to try out for the bachelor. there was an open casting call on that day and so i decided i'd support her and go too. and then kyle said she wanted to go. and then we invited stef since we knew she'd probably be able to meet us since she is a fellow "what the heck should i do today" aka unemployed friend. neither stef nor kyle tried out, but they went along for the fun of it.
angie and i headed downstairs a bit early so that we could try and beat the crowd. even though we were there early, they were already getting things started so we were able to just jump on in and get going. i'm so glad we went down early - by the time we left, the place was nuts and auditions had only been open for an hour or so!
first, they had us fill out a form with a bunch of questions about ourselves. then they took a picture. then they had us file in to the screening room down the hall to wait for our names to be called. the wit has an awesome theater complete with plush chairs that have foot rests. while we waited, they showed us episodes of the bachelor. the season with bob... the unattractive curly haired guy that was supposed to be funny and had not been picked by trista. why in the world did we have to watch one of the worst seasons?! anyways, we weren't in there too long and then they had us wait in the hallway to be interviewed by one of their casting directors.
once we made it to the room with the casting director, they put mics on us and asked us more questions: who are you, why are you looking for love, why the bachelor, what do you do, etc etc. it didn't last very long, but i felt like i had a good rapport with the lady who interviewed me. she said they'd be letting us know in the coming weeks. and that was that. angie had a different casting person and she had about the same experience. afterwards, we headed back up to roof to meet up with the other girls.
we met them upstairs, told them all about the casting experience, and then angie and kyle went downstairs to have a smoke. while down there, it started to rain on me and stef and when we finally heard from the other two girls (who seemed to be gone an awful long time)... they told us to come to the lobby bar b/c they'd met some fun guys who wanted to buy us drinks. ummmm, ok.... so we did.
there were two guys: both traveling sales guys. when i first walked in i thought, wow, the one guy is tall and cute. this could be fun! and then he opened his mouth and i just didn't get his sense of humor at first. but he persisted and i finally started to get him and find him cuter and cuter. the other guy was his boss. and married. and super drunk. and hitting on kyle. though kyle didn't think so. she was wasted too. and then the boss invited us to dinner. at tavern. seriously?! um, no, i don't think so. but kyle was insistent we go, and i couldn't leave her alone, and so i went along for the ride. as did the other two. and back to tavern we went...
this is angie's new bf (mike) that came and met us at dinner too.
and these are the two guys that kyle met down in the bar. that's joe on the left, me, his boss and kyle.
after we ate, joey (as i called him and he hated) asked if i wanted to go for another drink: just us. ummm, ok! so we left... and said we'd meet them at another bar, jilly's. but first we stopped at whiskey blue. and then we went to jilly's. but they'd already left. there weren't many people there and it's mostly an old folks place... or older... anyways, they were playing some sinatra and so we decided to dance. later i learned the other girls had been there and danced too! haha. and then, definitely not needing any more drinks but not really ready to call it a night anymore, joe asked me if i wanted to go back to the lobby bar. i have no idea what time this was, but the bar was closed and the lobby people were rather rude, and he's all i'm staying here. and somehow i ended up in his room.... where we ended up passing out. yes, ladies, just passing out. after some room service in the morning and some joking around... he asked for my number and said he comes to chicago for work fairly often... he lives in indy. if you want to see his profile, we are fb friends... his name is joe faires. as to what has happened since then... well, we've texted... but unfortunately no, i have not seen him again. kind of a bummer, he was cute! and i ended up having a lot of fun...
yena (another former nnn coworker - now living in chicago!) and the adorable, not sleepy mason.
yena, mason and mason's hot mamma!
omg, just look at this lil guy!!! he looks just like matt - elizabeth even showed us matt's baby picture as proof... and yup, it's another baby matt!
mason is wearing the shirt i gave him... it's too cute and almost too small already!
he's such a good baby! could he potentially be piper's future bf?!
munchkin!!!!
in front of mason's first home!
