MN

i'm sitting in the MN Zoo..next to the tiger cages. It was nice watching them swim, they disappeared once while the bassist, Chris and I were peering over the edge. We were scared we'd see his head pop up right before he ate us but luckily that did not happen.

this tour has been quite different than the last one. no bus, a big white van and it is very big indeed. i get motion sickness so i sleep for half the day when we're in it..we don't stop often enough anyways though to take in sights because we struggle to make it to the next gig. we're not roughing it by any means though, we get a hotel room every night and i haven't been mugged once! yay. well i'm at the show and i gotta work. write more soon.

EDIT: so i'm sitting in my la quinta inn..haha. my roommate is the new guitar tech, Jeff. He's 24 so it is nice having someone close to my age as my roommate. I was used to having the other guitar tech who was like 30 be my roommate. Jeff is cool. He is from Tulsa, OK. The land of Hanson and he doesn't make fun of me about it! It might be because our relationship is still new. haha.

Riding in a van is long and tiring and nobody will let me drive! (i got my license i swear!) but it is fun being able to sit up late with BK and talk about stuff. It is also fun reminiscing about what it was like for me just 4 years ago following him everywhere and how creepy they must have thought I was. FYI, they thought I was creepy but they also thought I was amazing. haha. whatever they means. He said he knew after the Europe excursion (when I followed him and the band to Amsterdam and then all over England by myself..at the age of 18) that he wanted me to work for him someday..that day is now. I work really hard because I don't take this for granted. I want to show him everything I can do plus more..right now it is still hard because I'm trying to take some classes and run the Street team AND sell merch with 110% the best of my ability. It is hard bcause I always get forgotten about! today I didn't get dinner until 11PM! And the boys accidentally ate my food and drank my drink!! which was a watermelony, apply, pineapple juice that I was REALLY looking forward to! I still got my yummy salmon but only because the person who ate it also ordered something similar haha..though my name is Mai. Not Chad or Ben Kweller.

Long drives have always been hard for me but I'm going to push through the motion sickness and take in the sights of the country like I wanted to and complained about not being able to when I was on the bus tour.

That's all for now.