Tour Fun

Just a few fun thoughts so far:

1. I can't keep track of what day of the week it is, or what time zone I'm in. We've been in all possible times zones in the last 2 weeks.

2. Every place we've been to has been new to me, I've never been to any of these places so far.

3. We've played two arenas with almost sold-out houses of about 1500 people, maybe more. Tonight's performance was in front of 1655 audience members.

4. Trying to sleep on the bus is tricky. Trying different positions every day, but can't sleep more than a couple of hours at a time at most.

5. I'll see Chris a month from today- yay? Not soon enough, counting down the days. I don't know what married people did without video chat on tour before these digital days. It really makes ALL the difference to actually see his face when I talk to him!

6. Best Place I've been so far: SEATTLE, WA!!!

7. Looking forward to: having people I know in the audience!

8. Trying to eat as healthy as possible, but we are limited by what restaurants/ shops/ grocery stores we can walk to. Pocketing all the free snacks at the hotels that I can!

9. WORST HOTEL ROOM so far: Butte War Bonnet Hotel in Butte, MT (we like to pronounce it BUTT, just to be immature). Just sketchy-looking in general.

10. BEST Hotel so far: Courtyard Marriott in Meridian, ID (the rooms were huge and nice, although there was no breakfast, there was the corn maze and it was awesome).

11. Best screw-up in the show so far: Last night in Butte, Montana during the "Dream Ballet", lets just say the you-know-what hit the fan:
The first girl who enters after Curly and Laurey start the dance, forgot her contacts and she's pretty blind. All the girls enter in a sequence that's only set to the music, so if we get thrown off, it all gets thrown off. Well, my poor, blind friend without her contacts couldn't see that she went into the wrong wing, got confused, and when we all tried to follow her, we were all behind the music. Eventually, we got back on, but then one of the other girls got her dress (and self) caught on the fence up stage, so we're all trying to keep from busting out laughing in this serious/romantic scene. We think the worst is over, when Ado Annie comes in with Laurey's veil and it also gets stuck on the fence, and she's trying to rip it off in the middle of the dance.

We've also had a few incidences where the "map drop" (which is actually supposed to drop in from the ceiling) had to be rigged to a pulley system instead when there was no "fly space" at the theatre (which just means the stage wasn't tall enough to drop scenery in). One particular incident involved a middle-aged tech-guy who actually pulled the map drop across the stage DURING scenes and dances. On top of that embarrassment, it kept getting stuck in very crucial moments, so where there was an important scene or dance, there would be this guy, YANKING on the map, trying to get it to pull across the stage. For SHAME!

Okay more later, phew!