A look back....

Well here we are.......It's May. It's been about a month sense the tour has been over with. As I look back at it here is the good, the bad, and the ugly.

My favorite part of tour - Seeing how beautiful our country is. I had never been west of Denver before. Seeing the west coast was amazing. God is beautiful. His creation is outstanding!

Least favorite part of tour - Never sleeping in the same place twice. It was hard at first waking up in a new place every day. Never knowing where you were going to stay was interesting. Having a nice hotel was like GOLD! We stayed at some interesting places for sure! The worst - Days Inn in Chicago, IL. Hole in the tube, old soap, no window=nasty. Best - Morgantown WV. Hotel on the river, big room, big tub, very nice clean room. Beautiful!

Driving was also interesting. I drove through snow, rain, sleet, heat, fog, smog, every condition you can think of. It was great and bad. Driving through the mountains of West Virginia in a fog so dense I could not see 10 feet in front of me was the worst drive ever. Driving from Portland to northern California was INCREDIBLE!!!!

Best Venue - The metropolitan theatre in Morgantown, WV. Old theater that had an awesome balcony, awesome paintings, awesome chandelier.

Worst Venue - Really, there were no venues that were horrible. I'll give this to all the shows that were cancelled, those venues stunk!

Best food - Main Street Cafe! Cool venue in Kansas City. HOMEMADE food!!! It was awesome. Chicken Pot pie, Macaroni and Cheese, fruit.....amazing!

Worst food - Everywhere that served pasta!!! haha, which was everywhere else basically. Don't get me wrong, I wont complain over free food, but EVERY place we went has pasta, pizza, ect.... It got old really fast. But it was free so I cant complain too much.

Best crowd - This is a toss-up. The Memphis show was AWESOME! but it was a home crowd so I cant give it the full credit. Phoenix,AZ was the best show we had. We were the opening band on the tour and the crowd went crazy for us and even wanted an encore!!!! It was crazy!!!! That was an incredible feeling. (Notable crowd: Orlando - my hometown, it was awesome)

Worst Crowd - The one person that showed up for our gig in Springfield, IL. HAHAHAHA - wow was that awkward. The one person wasn't lame, it was lame that one person came. Tho the crowd was junky, it was fun to play that night. We jammed a little bit and just had fun.


Overall, I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. God showed me so much about him, me, and everyone else. God is good. He grew me in my musical abilities, my relationship with him, my relationship with others, and so on. I would love to tour again (I get to this summer!!! woohoo) I could see myself doing this for the next chunk of my life. I love spreading the word of God through music. God changed lives through us and our music, and that is something I want to be involved in for a long time.

Thanks to all who have been reading this blog, I hope that you were blessed by it in some way or another.


Wiki signing out......

LAST SHOW OF TOUR!

Tonight is our last show of the tour. We are ending in Memphis which is awesome. It should be awesome. Ill post after the show......


wiki

Van troubles :(

Well we made it almost the whole tour without any van problems. But yesterday we hit a road block. Our van died on our way through New York. We lost all the electrical stuff in the van (lights, gauges, ect..) and the van just stopped working. So we took it to a shop to get the alternator fixed and a new battery. We got the van and everything was fine, we started driving to our show that was happening that night. We drove about 5 hours and the van died again. We were about 5 miles from the venue and couldnt go anywhere. So we got someone to come jump us to get us to the venue, the van died just as we pulled in. Now were in the hotel room trying to figure out what to do.

Just pray that we can get home, we have a show in memphis on wednesday that we want to get back for.

Also pray for Dizmas. As we were on our way to show before our van died again, we got a call and there van is completely dead. They have to basically get a new car. This puts them out for the rest of the tour it looks like.

I dont know what God is doing, but it is good regardless of all of this.

Last night we did play as our van rolled into the parking lot. We started the set out with some praise music and it calmed our hearts and mind. We give all glory to God, because his plans are far greater than anything that we can imagine.


hope all is well,

Wiki

Long Drive ahead!!!

Well we are in Holland, MI. We are about to take of to Massachusetts then to New York, then to Ohio, then to MEMPHIS, then to Ohio, then to GMA week in Nashville. Then the tour is over with! Crazy!!!! 5 more shows left!!!!! It's gone by really fast, I cant believe it.

The drive is about 15 hours to right outside of Boston. So yea, long drives = BOOOO!

The show last night was great! Played at Park theater in Holland. Good stuff, the stage was SMALL!!!!!

We played great last night so it was an overall great show.

If you are reading this and are from the Memphis area. WED. APRIL 16TH!!!! CAYERIO and 4 other bands AT VISIBLE SCHOOL!!!! 5 BUCKS!!!! COME!!!!


Later,


Wiki

Phone Broken :(

I let you guys figure out what happend.......Here is the short version of the story


I went into the bathroom at the club today with my phone working, 10 minutes later I came out of the bathroom and my phone was NOT working.......yea........


cant figure it out??? Ill give you a hint.......I had to dry it out..........hahahaha, sad day for me...


We played at club 3 degrees tonight......best venue we have played all tour.....wicked sweet....


i going to go cry some more...


Wiki

tonights show = yea..................

So we played in Macomb, Illinois tonight. After are cancellation last night we were ready to rock it tonight. We get there, cool venue, its and old church with a cool stage. Smelled a little funky (old people smell with a little touch of fabreze)(sorry if thats offending :)

Like usual, we start setting up gear, merch, ect... We sound check, everything sounds great, people are happy.......

7:00 rolls around and we soon realized that this show was going to be special..........there was a total of ONE person there.......ONE...........yes, uno person.

No to most, this would sound terrible. Tho it was, we had an amazing time. We played no songs from our normal set. We jammed, played old songs, and totally had fun. It was a great time because the only people there were the bands and ONE person so it was totally relaxed and we all just had fun and played crazy songs, random things, and jams.


So yes, you can have fun with one person at the show......woot.


Im really excited for tomorrows gig. We are at Club 3 degrees in Minneapolis. Rumor has it that there are masseuses backstage that = GLORIOUS.

We have done a ton of driving the last 7 days. I've been to 7 states in seven days.......CRAZY!!!!!

I have been reading a lot in the gospels as of late. I am loving reading parables and other things. Also have been reading in Ephesians and 1 Peter. Every morning I try to read Psalms, to me it is just an uplifting to book (geared towards God of course) and being a musician i love reading them so its a great thing for me to read in the morning....

I am looking at purchasing a alcahemy 21" professional medium ride. Great crash/ride. Little expensive but amazing....

Hope everyone is good,

wiki

Show Cancelled :(

We had a show tonight in Oklahoma that was cancelled. The promoter basically dropped the ball and didnt care about the tour. We were all upset, but there is not much we can do. So we are going to drive towards St. Louis and see how far we get. We have off tomorrow so that will be nice. We are going to stay at one of the church's we played at in St. Louis. Then we play in Illinois the day after.

Im really tired, sore, worn out. This next day off will be great....


hope all is well,

Wiki