Move That Bus!
If you didn’t catch last night’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition let me give you a recap. The episode was filmed in our neighborhood! Upon hearing this news, my in-laws were convinced we lived in the ghetto. But that is not so! A family in our neighborhood has six children – five of them have some form of autism. For ten days, city cops blocked off our streets while there was demolition and construction. Now the family has a beautiful new home tailored to meet their kids' special needs.
Now, I don’t usually watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition because I cry like a baby and the product placement is so obvious it’s ridiculous. This episode was no exception (on either account).
For the family’s vacation, they went to a camp in Colorado where the kids were able to to ski, snowboard and paint. It was so sweet to see the six kids have so much fun ... by sweet I mean tear-jerking! Man, was I emotional! It really was beautiful.
Now, I don’t usually watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition because I cry like a baby and the product placement is so obvious it’s ridiculous. This episode was no exception (on either account).
For the family’s vacation, they went to a camp in Colorado where the kids were able to to ski, snowboard and paint. It was so sweet to see the six kids have so much fun ... by sweet I mean tear-jerking! Man, was I emotional! It really was beautiful.
As for the product placement … good Lord! Did the five-year-old’s guitar really need to have “Monday Night Football on ABC” branded on it? No. The NFL has NOTHING to do with homes or makeovers or guitars. That little gem wins the “most obvious pos-men award” from yours truly.
In conclusion, as a hard-hitting blog-journalist, I have a few inaccuracies to report. In the beginning of the show, Ty was shown riding a horse through a pasture near a pond in our neighborhood. Neither that pasture nor pond nor horse is in our neighborhood … I’m not even sure I’ve seen them in north Austin. Our homes are packed in like sardines. Next - after the bus exited off the highway to get to our neighborhood, the bus drove through a desert. There is no desert in or on the way to our neighborhood. Thank you.
posted by A Spirited Mom @ 7:12 PM
6 Comments:
So Cool! Did you take that picture?
I was thinking about you when I channel surfed to this last night! I am so excited that you have a blog -- it's bookmarked and I can't wait to see what you have to say!
To add to television inaccuracies, I'd like to state publicly that the Grey's Anatomy ferry accident wasn't even at the ferry terminal, GOSH! Also there is no hospital in Seattle that overlooks Pike Place Market. Thank you.
I did not take the photo ... I'll share my photos with you sometime. They were taken during the construction phase and are not very interesting. :)
Sponsor that Bus! Hooray for the Marchblog. I already love it. If I didn't have to go feed my horse, I would write more...
2nd the Grey's inaccuracies! As Weslie had pointed out too, like a ferry accident would occur and 99 wouldn't be a parking lock with people stopping to gawk. Still my favorite show though!
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