San Antonio, TX Day 01-01/19/2008

San Antonio Day 01, TX

So as we pulled into San Antonio it seemed like it might be another less than awesome night. Don't get me wrong, I've been having fun, it's just that yesterday was a harder day and we were rolling up into what seemed like a little more run down part of town. Nobody knew what to expect. Here are my beefs:

1. We aren't selling much merch so we're not making much gas money. We have to drive to Phoenix next and, before the show, we didn't even know if we'd have enough gas money from the band. The boys do NOT want to dip into their own pockets.

2. For myself, I just wasn't really feeling it from the other bands. I've introduced myself and everything but everyone still seems really awkward. I was worried that I'd never really get to know anyone else from the other bands and that we'd always just be random ppl on tour with the opening band.

3. I haven't started filming anything yet and I'm having trouble getting good ideas about what to do. I feel insignificant.

AND

4. It seems like the Dallas crowd just wasn't feeling the AGAGAG set. I mean not only was there hardly anyone there but we sold almost nothing and got almost no feed back.

SO.... I'm going to dedicate this post to how all of the above four points CHANGED for the better thanks to our time in San Antonio.


1. After the guys played (a killer show) people started flipping about them and were coming out to us kids selling merch pretty steadily. We were warned that night that we might not make any tips, and, we ended up getting tipped better than both the previous nights. We sold more than enough merch to get us to Phoenix and I'm sure the guys benefited from the on-rush of positive feed back. This really brought everybody up a notch in the excitement scale.

2. All of the other guys on tour were very friendly and outgoing tonight. It was like a 360 from the last night and I realized I was just jumping to conclusions and wanting too much instant gratification. People need to warm up to people and, as we all decided, a little kindness goes a long way. I had a great time getting to know some of them better today and am looking forward to the rest of the tour.

3. We all came up with great ideas on what to film.

4. See Number 01 :)


That night we crashed with the boy's tattoo artist: Matt. He moved from Savannah to San Antonio a while back and they were all excited to take advantage of his tattoo skills. It's wonderful staying with families. They had lasagna for us and comfortable sleeping accommodations. They even let us do our laundry and put popery on top of the clothes in the basket to make them smell wonderful. They were just plain great. They also introduced me to sweet potato muffins. No joke. They tasted AMAZING like a pumpkin spice late. No kidding, folks.

We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea