I love me some Kelly Ripa!
She just makes me laugh.
I loved Regis, was a huge fan of Michael Strahan, and now have grown to enjoy Ryan Seacrest as well!
This has been a Bucket List item of mine for some time, and this summer I made it a priority to watch for tickets, so that I could request them during the right time to hopefully make it on the show during our Fall Break.
Luckily enough I was sitting in my travel agency classes when I pulled up the ticket schedule and saw that the date during Fall Break was current accepting ticket requests!
Yay!
I immediately requested them, and within an hour they had been confirmed!!
Woot! Woot!
We stayed in Staten Island, so it was a bit of a trek for us to make it clear up to the upper west side by 6 am.
We made it nonetheless!
Here we are waiting in line.
We were #5 and 6.
It wasn't too chilly outside, so we enjoyed watching people walk/run by and kept our eyes glued inside.
The balloon man showed up.
We came to find out that this day was Kelly's Birthday!
They couldn't even fit all of the balloons in the elevator, so they had to take them a different route on the stairs.
Around 8 we went inside, and from there we waited until 8:30 to go into the studio.
I was expecting the studio to be small, but it seemed a lot smaller than I really expected.
We were fortunate enough to get to sit down front; however, I expected that the first in line would get the best seats and that wasn't the case.
Our seats were good, but there were people we came in after us who got to sit in front of us.
Checking out the wheel before the big spin during trivia time!
All of the above photos were before the show started.
They shared with us when to clap and when not and what to expect during the show.
This morning was the morning after the Las Vegas shooting.
The show started our extremely somber.
I can't even imagine having to host a show on Live TV when 58 people were just innocently killed at a concert.
The hosts did a great job, and at the end of the show Ryan left the studio running because he had to broadcast some interviews of people at the concert on the radio.
Kelly seemed like the same person in person as on TV.
Like I said it was her birthday and lots of people brought her gifts.
If only I had known, I would have brought her something, and then I'm pretty sure I would have been able to give it to her and get a picture taken with her.
Most of the people who brought a little gift gave them to her and took pictures with her during commercial breaks.
Ironically enough, the trivia caller for that day was from Morrow, Ohio.
When Kelly announced the trivia caller was from Morrow, Ohio I yell "Wooo!!"
I sat nearly directly in eye contact with Kelly.
She heard me yell, and looked right at me and said "Are you from Morrow, Ohio?"
Of which I was star struck and didn't say anything, and then said "No, just Ohio!"
My parents were watching the show at home and my dad actually texted me to see if I was the one who yelled.
And it sure was!!
After the regular show they taped another segment and then recorded Kelly.
Kelly said goodbye and that was a wrap.
The show went crazy fast!
Kelly and Ryan talked to people during the commercials.
I was even more surprised at how fast the commercials went.
They would start counting down, so that Kelly and Ryan knew when to make it back to their seats, and I swear Kelly made it back to her seat every time just when they were saying 3-2-1.
I'm so glad Alex and I had the opportunity to go, and I would definitely go back again!
We headed back to Central Park for a final stroll and then to Carmine's for lunch before heading home.
Stuffed mushrooms!
Yum!
Have a great Tuesday!
I hope it is as great as my Monday at Live with Kelly!
