The Amazing Race Audition

 Back on June 22, my brother Ken and I traveled to Las Vegas to audition for the reality TV show "The Amazing Race."  We have talked about it for years, like most people.   We finally made to Vegas at 8:30 am.  Auditions started 10:00 am.  There was a huge line already when we arrived.  

The Thornock Brothers!!

 It took us nearly 2 hours of standing in line to get to the point of entering into the building.  It was already over 100 degrees.  We got inside and had another hour and half of lines still ahead. 

 We were the 106 team to audition that day.   I bet there were at least 3 times that many teams overall.

 We finally made it to the camera.  We were told that we had 60 seconds to sell ourselves.  During the previous 3 hours of waiting in line, we came up with a strategy.  We weren't perfect, but we gave it our best.  We had the room laughing a couple of times and I almost made the camera man fall to the floor when I was talking about my cancer and said that not too many people can say they gave their left nut to be on the show (Julie's idea). 

Now we sit and wait to see if we get a call back.  It is highly unlikely, but at least we can actually say that we auditioned!!!