Driving day...
We got up early and headed out quickly. We were fortunate to meet Jeremy's daughter Jo before leaving. Meghan pulled an owl eyes on Valerie while Jo was standing there, and then encouraged her to swat Val with a pillow. What kid doesn't love a one sided pillow fight? The Jensens have a lovely home, and we're very grateful for their hospitality.
Then we just barreled toward Richland. We hadn't heard from the venue, and were feeling out of sorts. I was, anyways. I wanted there to be a last show. I wanted to spend one more night on the road with my friends. But instead it was looking grim. The venue, Ray's Golden Lion, wasn't open yet for the day. To be honest, it was pretty sketchy looking to me anyways. We made some calls, left some messages, and decided to meet up with a friend of Meghan's for lunch. The consensus was if we didn't hear from the venue by the time we were done eating we'd just go home.
I had a garden burger with bleu cheese and got owl eyesed once.
Then we drove back to Seattle.
Along the way, we stopped at a rest stop outside of Yakima. (Question: if Yakima is "The Palm Springs of Washington", as the signs on it's borders state, is Palm Springs the Yakima of California? Perish the thought..) While I was in the rest room, I got a text from Cristina: "Scantily clad girls. Photoshoot. In the parking lot. Omg." I thought it was a joke so I replied "take pics" and took my time coming out. But when I did, I was shocked to discover 2 girls wearing bandanas for tops and a big bald duder with a camera. They were strutting around and he was calling them sexy bitchez and everything. We all literally just sat there on a nearby picnic table and gawked quietly, trying to drum up the courage to ask for a picture with the girls. After a few minutes, a family pulled up with kids, the girls jumped back in their vehicle, and were gone. We cursed the luck and headed home without souvenirs.
The rest of the way we just talked about what was good and bad and stuff, listing off the interesting people and places we traveled. It really was quite an epic 2 weeks, complete with personal epiphanies and adventure. I imagine I'll have some more thoughts on the matter that I'll post as a sort of summation of the tour, so I'll stop here. Besides, I'm typing this on Valerie's laptop the day after we got back, and she needs to drive to Bellingham, and it's getting late, and she's tired/bored, so.
Thank you for reading this documentation of Connecticut Four's Summer 2009 Get Out Of My Life Except For Forever Tour.
