Where the hell am I?????

Good morning everybody. It's currently 8:11am, Pacific Time, on Super Bowl Sunday, February 7. I am in Moses Lake, WA. Yes, it is a real town. No, you DO NOT ever want to come here.

I am feeling a little blue (and under the weather, but more on that in a second) that we are going to be leaving the Pacific Northwest today. Every time I come here I am reminded again how much I love this region. It is so lush and temperate. And the SEAFOOD!!! Can't get over it. I ate clam chowder every day that I was here.

We started out driving from California up the coast from Redding, CA through Portland, OR and finally to our destination in Tacoma, WA. That's what the pics from my last post are from. Gorgeous!!! I loved it. I just kept oohing and aahing. Tacoma is UBER close to Seattle, but not nearly as cool of a city, in my opinion. We played at the supposedly famous Pantages Theatre there. In this case, famous translated into a union stage crew that acted like jerks all day. Fun.

From Tacoma we went to Port Orchard, WA. OUR HOTEL WAS AMAZING. It was right on the ocean and SO beautiful. You could hear the buoys and the gulls in the morning and I fell asleep to the sound of seals barking at night. Port Orchard was one of those towns where you could walk anywhere, everyone was really friendly and the seafood was plentiful and FRESH. I tried calamari, peel and eat shrimp, clam chowder, crab cakes, etc. I think I already mentioned that one of my tourmates, Anthony, is well on his way to becoming a sommelier and will be opening his own wine distribution company in the near future??? So, of course, he was in hog heaven and had to sample many wines as research for his business. And OF COURSE I had to help him, because that's just the kind of friend that I am. It was so fun and unique to sample wines that were bottled so near to where we were. And we had some really good ones. Reds and whites.

The venue where we performed in Port Orchard was actually across the way in Bremerton, WA. The quickest way to get there was by ferry, which wasn't an option for us because of the truck. We were right on Puget Sound and I ate happy hour salmon sliders watching the sound and the aircraft carriers right outside the window. Bliss. Needless to say, I didn't want to leave Port Orchard. Pics are coming.

We then moved to Kent, WA and stayed in the most GORGEOUS Best Western ever. It was Kirsten's 35th birthday on Friday, yay! So we went to a nice seafood restaurant (again:) and celebrated with her.

We were supposed to stay in the same hotel last night, but we as a group decided that we wanted to watch the Super Bowl and so we shifted things around and drove last night to this hole that they call "Moses Lake". The hotel is mistakenly identified as a "Super" 8. SCARY. SO ready to leave.

Today we are headed to Butte, Montana (and another Super 8, pray for us) to watch the Super Bowl. Tomorrow we have 9 1/2 hours to Rapid City, ND. Tuesday is another 9 hour day into MINNEAPOLIS! Free day in Minneapolis on Wednesday and I have an audition scheduled with the National Theatre for Children. I am little worried because I am SICK.

Two of the guys on the tour had a cold that began roughly 3 weeks ago and 1 week ago, respectively. I now have it. My voice is crappy and I have a lot of chest congestion. I am loaded up on Vitamin C, hot tea, Tylenol Cold (both day and night) and Mucinex. So I am fighting the good fight. I just want to be better by Wednesday, so keep me in your thoughts if you do that sort of thing.

Well, I need to go eat some free Continental breakfast and hit the road. I will blog more later in the week. Enjoy your Super Bowl Sunday. I have decided to root for the Saints today, so WHO DAT?

Laters.