APPLEBEE'S

Spent a long time chatting on the bus with Kris Wills, Ricky Odello and his fiancée Kelly McCormick the other night. That makes it a little harder to get up in the morning. Especially if there's also some Bacardi involved....

Today the corps had some excellent rehearsal time in the cool little stadium of Excelsior Springs, a small town near Kansas City. The did an afternoon block and n evening block from 6 to 10.

Brunch was great and dinner was even better yet. And not only for the members, but also for us.


We were invited by corps director Pete Emmons to go out for dinner at Applebee's tonight, with the cooks, drivers and promo. There were 20 of us altogether.
What a delicious dinner that was! I had a full slag of glazed spare ribs. That's pretty much my favourite meal when in the States.
I should make sure I get to go to TGI Friday's too some time this summer!

We didn't have time to go to Wal-Mart across the street, because we had to be back at the food truck to get snack (beef stew) out in time,... only to find out that they had decided to take the WHOLE CORPS to Wal-mart.
It would have been nice if they had told us about that. A lot of members didn't come by the food trailer for their snack, but were most likely going to grab a bite at Wal-mart.

Taking the corps to a Walmart is a highly unusual phenomenon. This hasn't been done for many many years.
For the same reasons that when the corps is on the road during the night they NEVER stop at a truck stop, but at rest areas only.
The corps would be in the store for hours!

It was great for the members they got this opportunity! Too bad we didn't get to go. We hardly ever get to go really.

We were allowed to use the washer and dryer in the Home Economics classroom, so I got to do my laundry, eventhough it was welll after midnight. At least I have a bunch of clean shirts to wear again!
Who knows whwn the next opportunity would be on tour. I think the corps will only have their next laundry in San Antonio.

Updated some more photos to the BD Mediabox from the last few shows in the meantime, then off to bed.

Not a very exciting day today really. Sorry about that. Some of these days are just like that...

Enjoy,

HK