Bossier to Austin

We boarded the buses after a successful Bossier City show for the six and a half hour overnight trip to Austin. I failed to mention in my last post that David's wife and daughter were with us for the Houston show and they're still in the process of flying back to Australia as of today (Sunday).

David's 10 year old daughter, Jedess, was a big hit. She was constantly upstaging her dad by mimicking his facial expressions with exacting perfection and had everyone in stitches. Here's a photo from dinner - seated left to right are: Wendell, Ramon, Erika, Cindy (David's wife), Jim, Walter, Jedess (David and Cindy's daughter) and April. We all hated to see Jadess go. She was more fun than a puppy.

We arrived in Austin around 6am this morning and Wendell, Kristen, Walter, David and I were the only ones who made it down to breakfast when the hotel restaurant opened at 7am. After breakfast, David and I took a walking tour of the downtown area and beyond. We explored for a couple of hours and saw the capitol building, a downtown river walk that was full of spawning brim, the arena where we'll play tonight and a movie crew setting up to work on the film "Alamo." The weather was perfect with clear blue skies and the temperature rising through the 70's.

We returned to the hotel in time to hear an alarm go off and watch a group of people get trapped in a glass elevator 15 floors up. Faces of startled sleepers appeared at many of the hotel rooms we could see from the atrium. The alarm did not quit ringing for at least 20 minutes and only stopped when the fire department showed up correct the situation.

We get to return to the hotel tonight and will fly by private charter to Phoenix tomorrow where we'll have whatever is left of the day off after we land. ¶ 6:05 PM