Yeah, I met the Cho brothers

So for the past six weeks I've been watching the quite excellent reality show the Amazing Race. My roommate Erica saw me watching and casually mentioned that her friend's boyfriend's roommate is on the show (Godwin- one of the Asian brothers). I filed this into my random quasi-celebrity connection to save for an anectdote but didn't think it would affect my life. However, three weeks ago Erica said her friend's boyfriend's roommate hosted a viewing party every week. "AND ARE WE GOING?!" I asked before she could saw any more. "Yeah, of course." she replied, slightly taken aback by my overt enthusiasm and not yet aware of my extreme love of reality tv and meeting celebrities.

The Cho bros didn't host the party the next two weeks, but we went at the first available opportunity, last night. SO FUN. It was great watching the show on two big screen tvs (the Amazing Race interrupted the world series...I'm sure the rest of the bar patrons were happy about that) with people who were actually on it and 40 of their closest friends. I won't bore you with plot details, since I'm guessing most people don't watch it, but thankfully Erwin and Godwin have made it another week. And I got to meet reality tv contestants! They were very nice, though in our extended convo w/Godwin he talked about boring investment banking and asked Erica about working at Google and didn't reveal too much about the show (except that the one legged girl's boyfriend was much nicer than he appeared on tv). I didn't take any pictures, because the mood didn't quite strike and I already felt quite tooly especially because when I left I said, "Congrats on making it another week." Um, who am I. But all in all, it was a night to remember. Erica's friend Amanda noted that it was more fun to watch my reaction then to watch the show, similar to the reason parents take their children to see Sesame Street Live.