This last Thursday McKinley and I headed up o SLC to go see Wicked. McKinley was so excited to go that she only groaned for a second when I told her she needed to wear nice clothes. One of McKinley's favorite places to eat is the Olive Garden so I made arrangements to meet my in-laws at the play and we were off. We had heard that they hold a lottery drawing before every performance and the Olive Garden is right across the street so we thought that we may as well try. We had arrived at the Capital Theater around 5:20 and there were about 50 people in 2 different lines, so we joined one. Around 5:30 a man came out an informed all the people in our line that we needed to join the other line. What we hadn't notice was in the 10 minutes that we were standing in the wrong line the other line had increased by at least 100 people. We were told that we needed to have cash and ID with us, so I was thinking that McKinley wouldn't be able to put her name in. McKinley seems to have luck on her side a lot more than I so when we found out that she could enter we were excited. As the line moved forward I told McKinley that she should crinkle her paper a little just as I was. She wasn't so sure if she should so with only a small bend we both put our names in the witches cauldron. They took names until 6:00 and it started to look like at least 300 people had come out for the drawing. We decided that we would stand on the outside edge so we could get across the street and to the Olive Garden quickly after the drawing. They have 20 tickets to give away each night. If you are lucky enough to win you can have 1 or 2 front row tickets at the cost of 25.00 dollars a piece. As they started the drawing, and we could hardly even see the man doing the drawing over all the people my hope started to fail. Five names had been drawn and 2 of them were standing right close to us and then we heard it.... Candi McMullin. I couldn't believe it, I was actually showing my ID and being let into the ticket office to get 2 more tickets. After I paid for the tickets we ran across the street for dinner and to call Matt and let him know the exciting news. Matt decided to stay home with the girls and send Gavin with my Mom. They only had an hour to get to SLC, but they made it. It turned out to be a crazy night but the play was amazing.
