A Kansas University sophomore turned last week's spring break into a money-making adventure and managed to get herself on a national TV show as well.
On April 18 Crystal Hudson, 20, Topeka, can sit back and watch herself win $1,000 on "The Price is Right." The show is on at 10 a.m. weekdays on Sunflower Cablevision channels 5 and 13.
"I wish I could watch it before everyone else does so I could see how spacey I was," Hudson said Sunday after she returned from a trip to Los Angeles with five friends. "It all felt like a dream while I was up there. Bob (game show host Bob Barker) kept saying, 'Crystal, I need your bid.'"
Hudson and her friends had tickets to the March 19 show but learned that tickets don't guarantee admission. When they arrived at the studio, they were at the end of a long line of other ticketholders. They traded in that day's tickets for some for the next day's show and camped out at 1 a.m. the next morning in front of the studio in order to be the first inside when the doors opened about 12 hours later.
When inside they met the show's producer, as did all members of the audience who also are potential contestants. Hudson, however, was the only one in her group of friends to be called to the stage.
She won the $1,000 on a spin of the big wheel. The money will be sent to her.
"When I get it I'm going to share it with my friends because they helped me with the bids," she said.
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