north and nash

To recap briefly, our second load out day in Blacksburg started with us being late. Again. Says Dustyn, our audio guy. “How can we be late to the same venue twice? For a one nighter?” Questions to ponder. But this time we had some union guys and a fork lift.

Ingrid got a ride.

We packed the third truck and it went pretty fast.

Then it was Halloween night in a college town. So of course we had to play that up starting with a party at the hotel.

I find it amusing that the cast, who spends most of their waking life in costume, wanted to dress up for Halloween.
Whereas the crew...did not.

We all went out on the town and had a great late night. Then we got on the bus and woke up in North Carolina the next day.

Morganton, North Carolina kind of came and went. The load in was smooth. We could actually pull the truck right up to the loading dock door instead of our usual routine of ramp, hallway, another ramp, more hallway, outside door, ramp, sidewalk, parking lot, 2 blocks away another ramp and the truck type of load in situation. But then the show was totally crazy with a rather incompetent crew- some of which just left in the middle of the performance - and the load out was gruesome. Our load out crew had trouble following directions... when you have to tell the same three people the same directions four different times; well, it becomes a very long evening.
Needless to say, goodbye to NC; which, despite its problems, was not as bad as Blacksburg. So far, that's the venue to beat.

Then we had 2 days off! Woo hoo! In Nashville! Hooray!

And after 3 load ins, 3 one nighters and 4 load outs in a week most of us slept most of the first day. We got up for dinner at the Flying Saucer, where I had a stellar chocolate stout, and then some went home and some went out to a blues club.

The next day was more of the same. Sleeping in. Checking out of the hotel, catching a cab downtown for dinner. I got to see Jen's parents, Mr. And Mrs. Wilson, who live here in town. They took me to dinner and sent me home with brownies. It was lovely to get out of the world of the show for a brief moment.

So now we're on our way to Columbia, MO where I'll get to see Judith, one of my professors from UofA who is now teaching at Mizzou. We play there one night and then we head out to Colorado for the next 2 weeks or so.