SO.....mom and I saw on the news this morning that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was doing their Wisconsin show about 50 miles away from where we are in Sun Prairie, so we thought, why not??? Lets make dad drive us out to the sight and maybe we will get to see Ty!!! So we get the GPS all set up and it says 50 miles away, and approximately 40 minutes drive, not to bad right? I mean to see Ty??? Now, dad is usually pretty good at following the GPS, but somehow he managed to make a wrong turn, so instead of going back to where we messed up, we just followed where the GPS took us..... The 40 or so minute drive took us about an hour and a half and a frozen custard stop later!!!!
Along the road, we became quite familiar with the sight of corn fields, they didnt seem to ever really end! We also came across some pretty funny signs that gave us all a good giggle along the drive! We saw a store that sold live bait, liquor, and well, we are in Wisconsin so of course it sold cheese too!! I know, only in Wisconsin, right? As we drove on a little further, there was nothing in sight but corn fields, when we came across a lone sign off the side of the road that simply said "ALMOST THERE!" Almost there? Almost where? We all had a good chuckle over this one!!
When we finally made it into the town, we realized that we had no specific address, ok...its a small town, how hard can it be, right??? So we just drive around aimlessly, looking at the miles and miles of cornfields and red barns and cows, which everyone already knows already amuse me quite a bit! But nowhere in sight was there anything that looked like an extreme home makeover scene...suddenly we started seeing some blue shirts and turned into a school....the story of the family is that the mom is a first grade teacher that has been at the same school for 15 years, she is the mother of 4, and their father recently passed away, the house was already a mess, and the family had to stay with relatives through the winter because it was too cold to survive, then the floods came in on top of everything and made things even worse...the school was a mess also, no playground for the kids, and all of the pavement was in shambles.....so when we pulled into the school we realized that the team was not only giving the teacher and her family a home, but also giving her school a playground and makeover as well! We asked some of the volunteers how to get to the house and they directed us to the high school where we were told would have busses available to take us to the home. We got to the high school, again asked how to get to the home, and were told that spectators were not allowed out there until tomorrow, oh well, it was a fun drive anyways! I told them that we had driven out from Madison just to see Ty, and they told us that the whole design team was in Madison today, not at the sight!! Ironic? More like disapointing!
Again, we set the GPS and start heading back towards Sun Prairie, along the road, my mom and I spot a sign that says the midwest's largest shoe store....of course we have to stop in the shoe store right??!! So we pull in, and what do we see? A HUGE TOUR BUS!!! We thought, there's no way that's the same one, afterall they are here to build a house, not shoe shop, right? So we just mosey on in, and mom and I look together, and who is before our very eyes but Pauly!!! Yes, after our long endeavors to hunt down the design team, we randomly stumble across one of the designers, turns out he was by himself, but hey still pretty cool, right? Here we are in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin, and stumble into Pauly!! He was sooo nice too! Took the time to talk to us, and ask where we are from, and truly appreciated his fan base! He even let us take a picture with him. We tried to wait for him to come outside, I so desparately wanted to yell as the bus pulled out......
BUS DRIVER....MOVE...THAT...BUS!!!!
