Sorry it has been awhile there bloggers...
Today we are in College Station Texas, the home of Texas A&M University. We got in super late last night after spending the day in Dallas. Before Dallas was OKC, and before OKC was New Mexico, and before that was Phoenix, and before that was Flagstaff... okay I vow never to wait this long between blogs :)
Anyway, the last few shows have been small but awesome with the groups of devoted fans that makes coming all this way totally worth it.
In Flagstaff, AZ we hung out with our friends in the band "Fight the Quiet" and stayed with them. Unfortunately Primos vegetarian hot dogs was closed that day (single tear :( haha). The next day we went down and spent a few days with our friend Andrea and her new roomies! We sure love visiting Dre, it feels like home! It was so nice to be able to sleep in one place for a couple nights in a row. Before the show, we were treated to an awesome lunch with our friends Maria, Angela, and Victoria! We are still shocked sometimes by how generous and supportive our fans are. We ate at Pei Wei Diner and had tofu pad thai....yum!!
The show was one of the best ones yet. Everyone was rocking out and singing the words to our songs! Pretty soon I no longer cared that it was 110 degrees outside...eek! After the show some fans took us to a British pub and bought us a round... we love our fans!
After leaving Phoenix we went to Albuquerque. The venue was totally sketchy... we were greeted by the shirtless, shoeless owner, beer in hand. haha. The guy was super nice and friendly though. Despite the small attendance the most important fans were there, including our friend Taryn who bought each of us a Starbucks gift card! That girl is so amazing. After the show we went with her and her friends to a diner and had a 1am breakfast. We drove straight through the night to Oklahoma City and woke up in a Starbucks parking lot. After taking a tour shower in the bathroom, the barista asked us if we were in a band. Haha how could he guess?? Turns out he was in a band too and offered us a place to stay that night. The show went really well and the people that worked at Bora Bora all bought tees shirts and a few rounds for the band. The fans there too were so cool!
After the OKC show, we went and checked out the memorial for the OKC bombing. It was so surreal, especially at night. The monument marks the spot of where the building once stood, and there is a chair for each person who died in the bombing that sits lit on a hillside. It is a very sad but very beautiful place.
After staying with our new Starbucks musician friends, we left for Dallas, TX. Sure enough, everything really IS bigger in Texas! We found a crazy truck stop BUC-EES haha... you just have to see it to understand. It's a tour stop paradise! The show was fun, we played acoustically and got to hang out with some super supportive fans. After the show we hung out at Guitar Center and visited the JFK Memorial with the band we are touring with called "Shut up and Deal". It was nice to finally get to know the guys and spend some time with them. We went and got ice cream downtown, real Blue Bell ice cream! Yummm. Then we started our journey here, to College Station. Can't wait for the show!
