"Best Idol Performance Night Ever"

If Marcia Hines says it, then it must be true. I was lucky enough to be among the audience of the first ever Idol Performance Night of 2008, and let me tell you, if you didn't watch it, you missed out big time.

To be completely honest with you, I didn't really get into the audition rounds this year. In fact, I was kind of over the whole Idol thing- but when dad let me knnow he had 4 tickets for me, my boyfriend, my brother and his friend to attend, I didn't pass up the offer. I wanted to suss out this year's supposed 'talent'...and lucky I did.

So we got to Fox Studios and stood in the VIP ticket line for about half an hour... it was pretty busy, you could really tell how excited evryone was. Then we were lead up to the studio- but rather than wait in line like everyone else, the four of us (and four others) were taken by my dad to pick the first lot of seats we wanted to sit in- wherever we wanted =] naturally we chose the front row!

It wasn't long before the crowd warmer-up guy Dave came out to..well..warm us up. He was hilarious! One embarrassing moment involves my brother up on the stage dancing for the audience...but let's never speak of this again. When the judges came out Marcia came over and gave me a hug and kiss. I could hear the girls behind me; "Why does she get a kiss? What the hell?". Haha

During the add breaks I was called over to the judges desk to get lollies and chocolates from Marcia to take back to the four of us- wow, we got the full on celebrity treatment! haha

But the funniest moment of the night was when Andrew (G) came over and gave Trent (my boyfriend) the 'talk'. Something along the lines of "I've known thisgirl for 6 years now, and you should be able to speak about how much she means to you in public...blablahblah" God it was funny- Trent was clueless, he had no idea what was going on, and I was just laughing like a nutcase, not really making things any better :P What a good girlfriend I am. So now the poor boy has gotten words from Andrew G and Marcia... who next?

All in all the show was amazing! I must admit I picked the bottom three, their performances just weren't as memorable as the others. I'm looking foward to this week- personally, I'm rooting for Madame so far. But that could all change...