Well, we are just about to have our week off for Thanksgiving and we are currently in Schenectady, NY. We have been here since Thursday night, and have had a good time because this is actually Marc’s home town so he has been showing us the sights and driving us around in his mom’s van! We ate a really nice dinner at the Macaroni Grill on Thursday, and yesterday we went to the mall during the day, took a driving tour of Schenectady led by Marc, and then that night we headed out for an evening of karaoke! We all had a lot of fun. Tonight, we are heading over to Marc’s parents house for dinner, which we are very excited about. His mom is making a nice Spanish dinner with rice and beans, empanadas, and platanos! We are going to pull the tour bus right up to his house.
We’ve had a nice warm few weeks down in Florida and Georgia. Its been great to be down South as it is starting to get colder up at home. We had four days in Macon, Georgia and there wasn’t much to do in the town itself, but our audiences were fantastic! They were huge crowds and very responsive. The theatre and staff were great too, so it was a pretty fun few days. We even had a wonderful wardrobe guy who (without my asking) folded the clothing that I wore to the theatre during the show and had it in a nice, neat pile at my dressing room station when i came down after the show. It was so nice! After Georgia, we were back down in Florida again for awhile, and I love the sight of palm trees!! (I think i may have already mentioned that). We had our largest audience to date while we were in West Palm Beach, Fl (over 1700 people!!) It was really cool...It was a huge theatre and all three balconies were full.
We then headed for Charlotte, North Carolina and Aunt Sue and Grandma came up to see the show! It was really nice of them to make the trip and great to see both of them. We will be stopping through Winston-Salem sometime in April and are hopefully going to have everyone over to Aunt Sue’s for dinner that night! Grandma will also be seeing the show again when we come through Fayateville, Arkansas and I told her to bring all of her friends!!
Then we had a really long drive up to Harrisburg, which was made even longer because we got stuck in about an hour and a half of traffic. We finally made it though, and we didn’t have to perform the next day so it wasn’t too much of a problem. On our way to Schenectady, the wierdest thing happened!!! We stopped for lunch in ALLENTOWN, my hometown. We got off the Hamilton Blvd. exit off 78, which is my exit! We were about 2 minutes away from my house for our lunch stop and I hadn’t even said anything. It was purely coincidental, that is just where we happened to be at lunchtime. We drove right past Dorney Park in the tour bus and ate at the Boston Market over by TGI Friday’s (for those of you who know where i mean!) It was really strange to be right there and have to get back on the bus and keep going to Schenectady! So we were in both my hometown and Marc’s in one day!
