Soap Opera Surprise

We had a very interesting afternoon at the Park Lodge today. We got a call from JP, one of the owners of the lodge, asking if we wanted to be extras in a soap opera that was being filmed in the ballroom of the lodge today. We were sort of skeptical as to what exactly was going on, but walked up there and sure enough, the cast and crew of the Irish show Ros na Rún was filming in the ballroom. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, and I literally had just rolled out of bed from a nap, but they put us to work as extras, sitting in the background pretending to talk to each other. The show is in Irish, not English, and all of the cast and crew were speaking Irish too, so it was a strange and very comical experience. We did understand when the director yelled "Action!" though, and had fun watching the behind the scenes workings of this TV show. We couldn't really tell what was going on in the plot except for that it was taking place at a ballroom dance class, and we were eventually asked to dance as participants in the class. I know I looked completely ridiculous, so I'm really glad the show is not aired in America (except for in the Boston area, we later found out!) After a while, they asked if we could change our clothes since they were moving on to a different episode, so we quick ran back to our cottage to change, laughing the whole time about how bizarre this experience was. Even though we ended up needing to stick around for over four hours, we had a lot of fun and the cast and crew were extremely nice and fun to talk to. The director invited us to come to the set sometime to be on the show again. She also let us know that this episode will be aired on November 8th, so a viewing party will definitely be in order to celebrate our Irish soap opera debut.