The Amazing Race - Anchorage Casting Call

Emily and I love watching The Amazing Race together, a show about teams racing around the world for $1,000,000. The first weekend I moved up here in the middle of January they had the season finale of their latest race, and wouldn't you know it they were in Anchorage, AK and the finish line was in Girdwood.

Anyways, CBS is accepting applications for the next race. So Emily printed off two applications and we filled them out last night. Then today at 1:30 we headed down to Bailey's Furniture Warehouse where the local casting call was. It ran from 2-7, but by the time we got there there were already about 20 teams lined up ahead of us. A friend of Emily's co-worker was there 3 spots ahead of us, which we thought was pretty funny.

So at 2 they let us go in the furniture place. They had one camera ready and were working on setting up a second one. So we waited in a line and watched as people film their two-minutes of fame for the camera. Basically they just roll the film and let the two people talk. Emily was getting a little nervous b/c everyone could see your take. There were two police officers, a father and a daughter, and so on.

Then when they got the second camera up and running, they split the line up. So were were actually the 3rd team to tape on the second camera. And Emily was put at ease a little bit when we saw that this taping was done in a private room so no one could see what we did.

Of course we went into the room to do our taping with no real plan thought out. We just kind of talked, a little about us, a little about the past teams that we've liked, a little about how competitive we are with each other, etc. We're not expecting a call from CBS anytime soon, but it was quite an experience trying out for a reality/game show.