Got the call

On Wednesday we got the call, "Hi, this is LA Models and Talent, Lainie has an audition tomorrow for a Disney print ad. She'll need to be there between noon and 4pm." OK, what?? Tomorrow?? So I wrote down all the info, double checked it all with her, asked her a bunch of stupid questions (the poor girl that called probably thought they were stupid!) and we got moving. Had to pick out an audition outfit, do some laundry, pick Mason up from school, figure out school for him the next day, and call as many people as I could in a short time!! When I called Tulsa he suggested that we go the night before, so Lainie hadn't spent 5 - or 7 hours thanks to LA traffic- in the car right before an audition. Good idea seeing as how she occasionally gets carsick.

So we left around 5 that same evening. Traffic was horrible just getting out of town, and we made it to LA around 10-10:30. I thought, it's a Wednesday night, finding a hotel room should be no problem. WRONG!!! UCLA is just starting classes this week, so 6 hotels that we tried were all booked. We finally found a hotel close to midnight, good thing we didn't have to be at the audition early!

The next morning we had some breakfast and got Lainie all cleaned up. We found the audition place easily, it was close to our hotel. We got there at about 12:15, signed her in, and got ready to wait. There were a lot of little girls there, but they were moving quickly. They called Lainie's number about a half hour later so we went into the audition room. All Lainie had to do was pose for some pictures, they took 4 or 5, and we were done! Lainie stopped to talk with one of the casting agents, another high fived her on the way out. Not that I'm biased in any way, but I didn't see any of the other kids talking to any grown ups or getting any high 5's - I'm just saying...

After her audition I promised we'd go check out the ocean and get some lunch. We stopped at Santa Monica beach, beautiful! We were so hot and tired after our walk to the beach we decided to head home and get lunch on the way. All in all, it was a really fun trip with just us girls. Now we wait to hear if she gets picked! Hopefully it will happen within a week - but who knows...