Wednesday morning. 2:30 am. Get up, leave by 3 am. Get to airport, check in, wait in line to check baggage. Crazy Asian lady cuts off the line to re-organize the lines to the counter. Our plane leaves at 5:15 and its getting close to that time and we still have to go through security. And crazy Asian lady is taking her time.....guess who's bags were overweight AGAIN...I ended up having to cram some stuff in Rachel's bag. $90 bucks for 6 lbs. Delta sucks.Finally check bags and get in line to go through security- which is ridiculously long. Finally get passed through it and we make it just in time to sit for a couple minutes before we board. Good thing we arrived 2 hours early. Get on board and our flight is delayed because some person in a seat ahead of us was having complications. Awesome. We have a connecting flight that takes off 30 minutes after we arrive in Detroit. This day keeps on getting better and better. As much as I would have loved to stare out the window again, I was knocked out even before we took off. I had to be tired for that to happen. Best of all, we got put on the emergency exit so if the plane crash landed or anything, we would be in charge of saving everyone's life.But hey, we got extra leg room...
I woke up maybe an hour and a half into the 4 hour flight.Sometime during the flight I looked at the map and we were over the Colorado Rockies. I glanced outside and it was a gorgeous sight! I think I may have even seen snow...does it snow in the summer at high altitudes in CO? I don't know- I've never been. I think the best memory of the flight though that I would share with all of you is my partner Rachel standing up to go to the bathroom but can't pass by because the guy beside her is asleep with his legs out so she couldn't pass. So she just stood there. All awkward and stuff. For like 7 minutes.
We land in Detroit and have to RUN, literally...RUN to our gate across the airport. That's not easy with heavy carry ons- let me tell ya. We get to the gate and everyone else had already boarded. It was a small rinky dink plane that "smoked" from under the seats. Ok, maybe not smoke- it was the AC, but nonetheless....I'd never seen that before and it wasn't comforting. Nothing to really say about this flight, it was the shortest flight ever. 15 minutes. But the male flight attendant- Princeton.....was HOT. If I ever wanted a flight to be longer, it would have been that one.
Welcome to Dayton. This is where the troubles began. We went to the most ghetto Mcdonalds I've ever been to and drove by cornfield after cornfield, after barn, farmhouse, cornfield, one stop light town, cornfield...you get the picture. I have definitely learned that I am NOT a "farm" girl. Living in an area like that would drive me crazy. A ton of horror movies flooded my mind...especially when we stayed at a motel that resembles the one in Vacancy. Our first show in Ohio our right speakers flaked out on us and our DVDs weren't synched. (For those who don't know what I do, we do school assembly programs with 3 huge screens that we set up. 3 projectors and 3 different DVD players. The show is all synced together so if your timing is off on your DVDs, its noticeable) I tried to fix the time difference and ended up stopping the whole show 2 min in and having to start it all over...and the timing the second time was worse than the first. We did 2 shows and the second one was better, plus our speakers came back up. Oh and we do intros and conclusions to the show and I spoke faster than the speed of light because I was nervous. I really got to work on that.
So we had a few days off when we got to Blue Ash, Ohio- which is right outside Cincinnati. Maybe the city would redeem Ohio. Nope. We got lost and ended up in Kentucky and all I wanted to do was go to an art museum. Our directions there were wrong so when we finally found it an hour later (despite any help from the 2 gas stations we stopped at because they both told us it was in Eden Park but they didn't know how to tell us to get there from where we were- SERIOUSLY!! You're a gas station!!!) it was closed. I got all fancy and dressed up for nothing. So me and Rach ate pizza at Eden Park with the pretty pond. We went to a festival in Blue Ash that night. REO Speedwagon was playing a free concert. I "cant fight this feeling anymore" so we decided to go (get it??) Maybe this would redeem Ohio. Nope. Wrong again. We got yelled at for following the line through the crowd, so we left even before the band came on stage. At least we had a nice hotel room......
Until we were rudely awaken by the fire alarm at 6:30 in the morning the next day. And we had an afternoon show so we were able to sleep in. We evacuated the hotel and stood outside for 5 minutes, before Rachel said- hey..I smell gas. We then decided to run back inside and get our stuff. Yeah...that happened. Kinda glad the hotel didn't explode now. Did I happen to mention that the whole time we were in Ohio we both were sick? I was at the peak of sickness at this point and we had to stand outside for 45 minutes.
Ohio is totally off my list for possible relocation. Asheville looks reallllllly good right now. Me and Rachel made a pack that if our tour dips into Ohio again, we are calling Andrew and telling him we're pregnant. Tour ended. Haha. So far we're in the clear- only PA, NJ, and NY now. But just...in....case.....
I don't think I was ever so glad to leave somewhere. Right now we're in Pittsburgh. I really like Pittsburgh. Its on the list of possible relocation. I am a little scared for my life though cause I'm not a Steelers, Pirates, or Penguins fan. These people up here take their sports seriously. More to come about this adventure in my next blog.
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