When we arrived, David Paul met us, and brought us into the fold! From there, we went into Weather Central (which has a lot of the weather computers, and is where they do live casts during extreme weather).
He then sat down and answered her questions and talked to her about what it takes to be a Meteorologist etc.
Then, he gave us a quick tour of all the studios (News Room, Great Day Houston Studio, The On Air Studio and Weather Studio). During this tour, G got to meet the 2 evening news anchors Len Cannon and Greg Hurst, who were quick to invite her behind the News Desk for a photo! Apparently they both have daughters, so of course had a sweet spot for her!
He then took us back to the Central studio because the news was going live and the first stories are often the most brutal and we didn't want her to be seeing those. He also did a teaser, then came back to retrieve us and bring us into the on air studio.
We then watched the News Anchors do their thing before David Paul took over and did the weather! I got tons of video/photos, and he signed her book. And she even got to try her own hand at the weather (using the green screen etc) but that's when her nerves kicked in!
All in all, the entire experience was absolutely amazing and wonderful! Seeing the sheer joy on my daughter's face was of course a proud mama moment! She was fully engaged in the conversation with him, and he spoke to her on her level after getting a feel for what she already knew (he has a son her age so it's easy for him to relate too). He said that he feels she is definitely tending more towards the performance side of weather and would make a great TV personality!
Without further ado - here are the photos and one of the videos. It's rather long, but there are some kind of funny things she says (one being about us running out without shoes in our PJ's during a particularly frightening funnel cloud). There is a ton more video that will be posted to YouTube as I get the time!
G in front of the Channel 11 Station
G with David Paul in the Weather Central Studio!
G with Len Cannon and Greg Hurst.
Hanging out until David Paul was done with his teaser.
All enthralled looking at Sports!
These images are slightly lower quality as I snipped from video (haven't figured out the function for taking stills from HD video on my camera yet). This is the LIVE weather report.
She froze up a bit and refused to gesture. LOL
She looks great on camera though!
G after, she's so cute!
And in case you are all, "What the hell does this have to do with Makeup?" Turns out that all these folks on air, wear tons! The amount of lighting going on in there can make you look completely ill! It's very interesting to see how this is done. Google it!
And here is the video!
Wasn't he just great!? So grateful! She talked the entire way home about what she learned and wanted to learn and such. Then promptly began researching Jet Streams etc. <3
UPDATE: This was posted by Channel 11! So sweet!!
She saw the above post and being the stinker that she is, responded back with, "Don't worry, he can still come hang out with me when I get his job!"
