LOTS of driving.
LOTS.
And then more.
Why did I go?
Silly, you know why I went.
I went to go see my girl, Brandi.
I was supposed to see her twice, but only got to once. The story is coming.
Now, as much as I love Brandi and the twins, they are not complete without her drummer, Allison Miller. She is not only the frosting, but the sugar IN the frosting.
Serious.
So after their headliner, they dimmed the the lights. Then Allison snuck up on stage, sat at her drums, and without any notice, went INSANE on the drums. INSANE!!
I think it scared everyone.
Oh man, it was SO GREAT!!
(There are some swears here....)
I WAS SO EXCITED!!!! I have always wanted to see her do Creep Live!
I cant even tell you how AMAZING it was!!!
In this video, she is singing with her sister Tiffany (who is engaged to Phil)
While we were in line, I mentioned to Jen and Cristina (our new friend) that I bet she will bring her sister on stage, since they are playing at home. OH, and MAYBE even her mom.
Guess what, SHE DID BOTH!!
I love, love, love, love, love her.
But, you know this.
So, bum deal though. We didn't get to see her perform with the Seattle Symphony. :( Sad.
There was some gnarly weather headed our way, and I DID NOT want to drive in it.
I woke up Sunday morning with 6 different weather alerts on my phone and ALL of them were places we had to drive through.
I just had a pit in my stomach. Leaving was the LAST thing I wanted to do. Well, second to last thing. (The VERY last thing I wanted to do was drive home is gnarly weather.)
So, as I listened to myself say to Jen, "Jen, we cant stay, we need to go."
While the rest of me way saying "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I knew we had to go.
I had been nervous the WHOLE trip about driving home.
I like to believe that I made the smart choice, even though we STILL had to stay the night in Baker City......AGAIN!
Oh Baker City..... I really dont care if I EVER go there again.
INFACT, if I drive to the Northwest again, I will drive straight past Baker City to Pendleton. If I have to break it up, I will stay in Pendleton for the night.
Our first night, we stayed in Baker City. We stayed at Knights Inn.
Oh lala.....
When we got in, I think it was 21 degrees.
We checked in, and sorry, but I could only understand about every 5th word that came from the man behind the desk.
We get up to our wood paneled room and bundled up. IT WAS SO COLD!
It looked like there were about 3 different ways to heat our room. So, I picked up the phone in our room to call the front desk to ask which way I heat our room that was, no lie, 45 degrees.
Im not kidding you when I tell you that the phone in the room, WAS A PROP!
Serious.
There were no hang up buttons.
AND, there was nothing plugged into it.
Yeah. Things were goin' great.
So, I called the number that they had on the pad of paper that they provided.
Apparently, Knights Inn has a call center.
A women answered the phone and I told her what room we were in and we needed to know how to turn on the heat, My Land, THE HEAT!
Mother of all that is warm, I NEED HEAT!
The girl on the other line says, (quite condescendingly, I might add) "Listen, Im not at your hotel, this is a call center."
I say "This dump has a CALL CENTER??"
Her: "........"
Me: "Well, then I bet you have the number to the one that I am staying at. Im in Baker City, Oregon."
She gave me the number. I call it.
Again.... every 5th word is understood.
However, I did understand this part: "If you like, I can come up there and help you figure it out..."
Uh, Thanks, and NO THANKS.
We did what we thought we needed, bundled up, and tried to fall asleep. (Worst night of sleep on a LONG time)
I figured the heat came on around 2 or 3 in the morning.
Nice.
So, as I said....back in Baker City again. I was NOT a happy camper.
Anywho, watch those Youtubes and love her. LOVE HER!
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