Florida Baby!!!

We are now in lovely Florida!!

Yesterday we played Tallahassee, home of FSU, which I didn't know. We actually played in their arena, you know where they hold there basketball games and hold graduations and such. It was our first Arena, and it was freaking huge!! You know how they do it, totally cut off half of the arena with a black curtain, set up the stage in the middle of the floor with the seating on the one side all the way up. We still packed it out. We kind of felt like rock stars singing in this big place.It was great for Elizabeth cause it was her school, she pointed out to us where she sat for her graduation, very cool for her, Just waitin til April when we hit PENN STATE BABY( by the way did you see our homecoming romp over Wisconsin!!(it was Wisconsin right)).

Now we are in Daytona, Beach, and of course God blessed us by having a hotel that is right on the waterfront. And a balcony that over looks the beautiful blue water pool. We also have a full kitchen, large fridge, full stove, stocked cabinets with kitchenware, microwave and everything! Of course we're only here for one night though, GEESH. Oh and by the way, it is BIKETOBERFEST! So every hotel and shack is packed with motorcylcles and some of the most scariest looking people in all the country, are all over this city. Apparently this is the precursor to bike week, which is even bigger, Lord have mercy.

Oh yes! I am such a water baby, I love the ocean and the beach. So as soon as we got off the bus, in minutes we were changed and frolicking in the water. It was strange though that as soon as we got off the bus, and especially went towards the beach, We could feel that it was harder to breathe, that our throats were getting scratchy, and something was tickling them and making us cough, and making our noses run(didn't stop us from acting like 5 yr olds in the water though). We found out that this phenomena is what is called RED TiDE. It has something to do with fish eating poisonous algae, emitting this poisonous gas, that is also the ruined insides from the fish,dieing and washing up on shore. Yeah beautiful isn't it, and we had a full operetta to do in this mess, so tonight we're advised to stay inside with the air condition on.

Tomorrow we hit West Palm Beach, which I am excited about cause I have never been there. And then off to Gainesville where we have been pro-warned that Our Director will be in the audience watching us and taking notes, so We're all on edge waiting for friday, cause saturday we might have a rehearsal from 1-5pm ugh!

We had a good show tonight, we had the largest audience so far 2,000 seats sold, almost an absolute full house. And we had them all the way thru, they were cheering all thru it, and of course we got a great standing ovation. It was kind of fantastik, though the thing that sucked about it was our changing area's were like a mile away from the stage, and all this show is is quick changing after every scene, so that kind of was frustrating having to worry about running back in forth. We also had one of the biggest mess ups in the military number tonight, but it was so wrong it was funny.( oh and it wasn't my fault!)