We weren't eliminated!!!!!

For those of you who do not know- we are HUGE Amazing Race fans. Bryan and I have been watching religiously for years and this season the kids have enjoyed our obsession with us. As we are traveling this week we are missing a couple of our favorite season finales. By chance we thought we might make it to our New York hotel in time to catch the finale of Amazing Race tonight. No luck though. The kids were bummed but cool because they know we've got it DVRed at home. As we checked into the Marriott- Times Square Lara was in the way of someone getting off the elevator pushing a large cart. I'm looking at the guy and....yeah, I recognize that guy. Yep- that's Phil. It's freaking Phil, the host of Amazing Race. He leaned over and told Lara thank you for moving out of the way. Then....we found out from the front desk that they did the finale here in NYC tonight and the host and crew are staying in the hotel!! Can you stand it??? This show is something we love to look forward to. We've even joked about signing up. :) To top it all off- Phil is staying in the room next door to us! Ahhhhhh!!!! Woo-hoo! He was coming back to his room and I just happened to be in the hall- yeah, right I just happened to be in the hall for 20 minutes waiting for him to come back to his room- and I got the guts to speak to him. I told him "we just drove down from Boston trying to get here in time to see the finale on tv and that we missed it." He goes, "Oh that sucks! You just missed it....well I won't tell you who won then." The kids came out and Bryan too...and I said, "No, please don't...we'll watch it when we get home." And Phil says..."Well, even though you were the last ones to get to the hotel...you're not eliminated because this is non-elimination round. Good luck!" Holy crap....we were all screaming when we closed the door...the kids were FREAKING out....ok, so it wasn't the kids...it was me!! We've only been in NYC for 30 minutes and how cool is that??!! We're off to the Statue of Liberty tomorrow.