woo tour again

i really am anxious about the upcoming tour w/ bk. i need to finish all my classes. i feel like i'm getting an ulcer!

i haven't finished my australian tour blog yet..haha. oh well, maybe a year later..i'll sum it up now:

dan the bassist was my adventure buddy on this trip. we had the same goals. don't spend money but have an adventure! his grandmother lived in australia so he's been here before. he let me experience my first meat pie! things are really expensive in australia but one time, we got a suite so our room (my roommate was gremlin) came with a kitchen. dan and i bought two days worth of breakfast and made some good old fashioned Oz breaky. Canadian bacon, eggs, a tomato and we subsituted the toast for english muffins because we couldn't eat a whole loaf of bread in two days. we shared our breaky of course w/ our australian tour manager and gremly.

dan made australia fun. i had some alone time and it was great. i loved exploring the cities by myself too. i looked up places online before i left so i had maps with me and special places i wanted to visit..I FORGOT TO SEE THE OPERA HOUSE THOUGH! it was a sad time, dan wasn't with me and i didn't know where he was so i went shopping. turns out he was looking for me too and he went to the opera house alone! booo. bondi beach was fun. dan and i climbed a really big mountainous hill that overlooked the beach and it was beautiful. i can't keep up w/ dan's legs though. his legs are the length of my entire body.

the headlining gigs in sydney and melbourne blew my mind. fans are crazy in aus. they spend a lot of money! we had to jack up the prices for conversion purposes and people bought them still! we sold out of everything we had except for 8s and smalls so that was for the tiny japanese girls.
the festivals were a great experience for me. i don't know if it is something i'd like to go into but it sure was fun. i learned the most from our oz tour manager. first, shes a she. she runs her own visa business, the only one in Oz for bands, etc and she is also a TM and a Promoter in one of Australia's biggest Talent buying/Promoter companies. Pretty neat. She gave me a lot of great advice and really boosted my confidence.

anyways, that's all

my next bk tour is going to be a complete 360. we're touring half of the tour in a van. i'm excited, i really want to see the country. i bought a new lens and camera just for this moment.