Sorry, guys! It's been a while...

So we're in Elizabethtown, KY...yup, same as the film. It's a town about 40 miles outside Louisville...and we've had two days off here. Thing is, a couple of us weren't around yesterday to enjoy it...cause we went to an audition in St. Louis! Santi, Patrick, Joe and I went to the local call for Stages St. Louis. 5 hours there, and 5 hours back. But hey, we are "the actors"--sorry, private joke for those of us in the rental car. Never got old. "Man, I didn't ask the people in Fazoli's if they have an actor discount."

Santi looking smashing at 6:30am

Me, on the other hand, I was determined to get some beauty sleep. Man, I really look like a diva in this picture.

We're here!

********Audition********

Aaaaand, home again. Not much to do but organize receipts.

"The actors"

So, yeah I'm glad we went. It was a good audition experience! Here are some other Kentucky images.

We are in the land of sweet tea. And I am one happy girl.

Barry! What are you doing!!!

"Hey, man. That stuff you gave me is WHACK. It's Sweet N Lo!!!!"

I just want to say, this was in no way my idea :).

Omaha, NE...SO much has happened!

This entry will be in chapters.

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
We arrived in Omaha on Thursday evening, and Friday morning Joe, Ashley, Patrick and I were picked up at the hotel and taken to the local Children's Hospital, a beautiful 3 year old facility. Patrick and I were escorted to the toddler floor and visited kids there...talking to them about our show, and giving them an Alexander book, donated by local Omaha physicians. We met kids with various levels of illness, some more obvious than others. My favorite was Emily, a beautiful 3-y-o with cancer, who had just had a chemo treatment. She was quiet but incredibly alive in her eyes, smile, and laugh. What beauty.

Here we are after our visit at the Children's Hospital.

We had a show that night at 7:30pm, which went great, and then it was....

CAITLIN'S 30's BDAY CELEBRATION!!!!!

It was our lovely stage manager's birthday, and being that she's a good Irish girl, we celebrated at a bar so perfectly called...The Dubliner :). Not the one we're all so fond of in DC, but close enough.

Guinness.

Side ponytails rule.

Caitlin is the epitomy of SEXY.

What DO you do with a drunken sailor????

A 30th b-day buddy!

So I MAY have asked the Irish musician if he MIGHT embarass Caitlin for her bday, and he MAY have suggested something called the "Unicorn Song" and Caitlin MIGHT have almost blown a fuse when I told her she was doing it but she MAY have done it anyway!!! The musician had a guy named John come up and help Cailtin out...and how about he humped her when the song got to the "the horniest of all was the unicorn" part of the song! It was pretty hilarious...

Caitlin shocked...

Caitlin giving it RIGHT BACK! haha!

After a long night at the bar...Jordan, Ashley and I were hungry. So we hit the snack machine. Which MAY have been right next to the fitness room...I think we got a little distracted :). Notice how I'm double fisting the snacks. I was starvin.

The Orpheum

The theater we performed in on Friday and Sat. in Omaha was beautiful. Built in the 20s, it was originally built for the vaudeville circuit, was once turned into a movie theater, and once almost destroyed...but it did survive, and we had the priviledge of playing there...stunning!

For more information on the history of this theater, visit THE ORPHEUM

New Friends

At the Dubliner the night of Caitlin's birthday, I made some new friends :). Juanita, Samuel and David from Columbia (not South Carolina...South AMERICA). Juanita lives in North Carolina and was visiting, but David is a Master's student in Omaha, and Samuel works there. They all went to high school together in Columbia. Saturday night they were my tour guides and took we to a totally swanky lounge called RED in West Omaha...On the way Samuel drove us through a very elite neighborhood in Omaha with gigantic mansions, one used to be owned by the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken...Omaha. Who knew? OH, and my new friends came to the show on Saturday...they're super duper :).

"RED" A very cool bar!

My new friends: Samuel, Juanita, and David.

Me, David and Juanita

Samuel is trying to explain the geography of Omaha to me using the stirrers in his drink. Very fun :).

This guy was having a great time at the bar. He deserved to get his picture taken.

Well, I think Omaha provided was too much entertainment for one city. Thank you to Samuel, David and Juanita for making me feel at home. Next stop: Indianapolis...wait, haven't we been there once before???

Biking in Kansas

With a day off, and not that much money left in our bank accounts (payday is Friday!) I was delighted to see a sign at the front desk of our hotel saying there were bikes for rent...$2 and hour! And the girl at the front desk informed me that the bike trail was just outside the hotel. Deal, I'm in. I convinced Santi and Mike to join me, and we biked all the way to Clinton Lake...10 miles round trip...just as the sun was going down. It was cold, but very beautiful.

Who says you can't hold hands while you bike?

I love the sky.

Ballet goes with every activity :).

Mikey.

Clearly, this picture proves I was the FASTEST biker of the bunch...(ok maybe that's a lie, hehe).

Again, what a sky.

Kansas...

This was what we saw on our way there.

We made it all the way to the lake!

It was a little cold, but they'll never know if you don't show it on yer face...

The sky was stunning on the way home...

Tomorrow we're off to Omaha, NE. Why are we going back north?

Vintage Shopping in Lawrence, KS

Lawrence is a mecca of vintage stores...CHEAP vintage stores. In the "downtown" area there are a lot of eclectic boutiques along with the standard presence of Abercromie and Gap. These boutiques provided hours of entertainment. During our visit to one store in particular, Ashley was amused by me and Patty entering and exiting the dressing room wearing outrageous outfits.

So here, for YOUR entertainment and amusement, is a little vintage fashion show. Pictures taken by Ashley Honore, and a little spice added by Photo Impression :).

2 shows tomorrow at the Lied Center...University of Kansas. There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like...

Des Moines, IA

We had a day off in Des Moines yesterday, on our way to Kansas. The tour of the off-broadway show, ALTAR BOYZ, a musical parody featuring a Catholic boy band, was playing at the smaller sister theater to the one we're performing at in February. We caught the matinee which was...hysterical. We laughed our asses off, the boys were great, very talented, and hilarious. After the show, we caught a few of them outside the theatre and let them know we were fellow tourers...we set up plans to meet later that night for a collision of the tours.

Before that, though, Shannon, Caitlin and I saw a hockey game at the Wells Fargo Arena....the Detroit Stars vs. the...honesly, I have no idea...is that bad? It was a blast :).

Here are a few pictures from our collision of the tours at the Royal Mile...a bar in Des Moines.

Happiness is: a day off.

Patty maaaaay have had a couple of drinks already...of apple juice of course!

Corey! Such a sweetheart and so talented.

Corey and Eric were getting to know Jack pretty well last night.

Corey and I liked this sign. Did we want to sit upstairs? naaaaah...but we wanted to stand under it, just for fun :).

Corey, me and Eric.

Hopefully when we come back in February, we'll be able to convince a few more of the guys to hang out with us (they were in the middle of a five show weekend)...but we'll have a 9:45 am show the next day...oh well, such is the price we pay for making new friends :).