this may have been the single most best day of my life.
or something like it.
background information: friday, august 7th we drove up to l.a for the jonas brothers concert and drove back the next day, saturday in traffic that took us a total of 4 hours to get home. barely got any sleep that night considering i went to a party, which i probably shouldn't have done. woke up bright and early sunday morning, with a mixture of nerves, excitement, hunger, grogginess, curiosity, and even some doubts.
but all of these feelings (except maybe the excitement) immediately escaped me the moment we entered universal city.
the show was to be filmed at gibson amphitheater at 5:30.
we got in line at 3.
they let us in at 3:30.
they opened the doors to our sections at 4.
and that's where it all started.
me and pookie had planned to skip finding our seats and just rush to the celebrity section as soon as those doors came open. the plan was going smoothly, until the security guard right before the celeb section asked to see our tickets. i showed him, and he directed us to where we should really be seating, only the estupido turned his back to us and we seized the moment to grab seats in the front section.
from then on, our plan was that if someone told us those were their seats, we'd say we were seat-fillers and move. and if there were seats we wanted, we'd tell the real seat-fillers that we had tickets for those seats. preeeettty smart, i'd say.
and it worked.
the first celebrities we saw were the cast of "the secret life of the american teenager." they were all so tall! but we were too happy and excited to even think of talking to them. as soon as we were settled, i spotted chelsea staub. pookie said it wasn't her, that she was much too tall and thin. but when she smiled and got closer, we realized it was her and were the first ones to take a picture with her. pookie told her "i love stella, by the way." and chelsea had the sincerest look on her face when she took pookie's arm and said, genuinely, "thank you so much, that really means alot to me. you made my day." chelsea staub instantly became one of our favorite celebrities. we could tell she was really sweet and down to earth, which was great.
as we waited for the show to begin filming, we kept pointing out people as they arrived. including: marlon wayans, billy ray cyrus, chace crawford, leighton meester, megan fox, amanda bynes, ashley tisdale, corbin bleu, zac efron, vanessa hudgens, hayden pannetiere, miranda cosgrove, ed westwick, the black eyed peas, george lopez, the twilight cast -__-, selena gomez, jake t. austin, jason earles, aly and aj, emma roberts (who pookie got a picture with!), and sooo many more people i never thought i'd be in the same room with.
at first, we were sitting next to jordana brewster from "the fast and the furious." i never thought she was pretty when i watched the movies, however in person she's seriously stunning. so much that pookie and i were too intimidated to ask for a picture with her! directly behind us were demi lovato's mom and little sister.
after 10 minutes or so, they moved us a few rows back. i ended up sitting next to jeannette mccurdy's mom and pookie ended up behind me. jeannette mccurdy's mom started talking to me about how that was her daughter's seat but it was fine because jeannette was presenting and wouldn't need the seat until later. she then asked me what show i was from. i was confused and asked what she meant, and told her i was a seat-filler. she thought i was actually a celebrity! it was so flattering.
we got moved yet again to our last seats of the day, next to brenda song and danielle (kevin jonas's fiancee). i got a picture with brenda and pookie was trying to see her cell phone the whole time to check if brenda was texting joe. haha.
the show began, and we sat there and watched very happily.
they took many breaks, during which we would all take the opportunity to go meet and take pictures with whoever we could. i met george lopez, miss jay from america's next top model, and a few others. but of course, the whole time i was only thinking about one person. my idol. the person i've wanted to meet forever and always said i'd get a picture with one day if it was the last thing i ever did: kim kardashian.
i've been determined to meet her and of course take a picture for proof for a couple years now. i watch her show religiously, follow her on twitter, try to dress like her, and of course i wish i was one of the krazy kardashians!
so, when they took the break before the final performance (miley cyrus!) to set up the stage for her, i knew that was going to be my last chance to get to kim. they were sitting only two sections away (kim, kourtney, kylie, and kendall), so it wasn't going to be too hard. i mentally prepared myself to kick, scratch, and scream my way to kim if i had to. it was do or die for me, and i was ready to do everything in my ability to make my dream come true. i dodged the two security guards all too easily, they didn't even notice me. the kardashians were about 4th row up, and as i made my way up the steps, my heart began to beat faster and faster. was my dream really coming true? it was. i walked up, said hi to them, told them how much i love them, and asked kim for a picture. she was so sweet. she said yes, and i looked around for someone to take the picture of us. but everyone around us were other celebrities, and i felt intimidated to ask them to take it. so i asked kourtney. she was super sweet too and did take the picture of me and kim. my lame ass forgot to take it off video though, so now i have a video of me and kim smiling. haha. after kourtney took the picture, i shyly asked kim to do the same for me and kourtney, which she did. so, YES, kim and kourtney kardashian touched my camera! lol.
as soon as kim took the picture of kourtney and i, the security announced that everyone had to be back in their seats ASAP. so i rushed back to my section, in disbelief and panic. i tripped over the step right next to hayden pannetiere, my legs slowly but surely giving out. i made it to my seat, and with no emotions or expression on my face, sat there for about ten seconds before i began to cry. i literally could not grasp what had just happened. i was crying, shaking, trying to hide it but not coming close to being able to. but all too soon, they announced that miley was up to perform, which made me instantly cheerful.
i stood up, turned around and saw that pookie and i were the only ones standing up in our section. but that only made me more proud. i heard "party in the usa" start to play on the speakers and just lost myself in the song. miley is seriously a great performer live. she owns the stage and the audience. i got chills so many times during that single song. towards the end of it, i teared up again, knowing that miley's performance was over and it was almost the end of the show.
those couple of hours in gibson amphitheater were a dream come true.
the whole thing flashed by in an instant.
as soon as we left the building, i called my mom in tears explaining to her everything that happened.
we got to the hotel, put our pj's on, and of course started twittering about everything.
300 dollars was definitely more than worth what we got back from that day.
