Our contact, Whitney Oliver, picked us up from the airport about 7:30am or so. We cleared customs easily and went to the base. This base was by far the hardest to get onto. We had to go through checkpoint after checkpoint before finally having to take all of our gear out one by one in order for security to inspect it. This is a pain in the ass anytime but imagine doing this at 8am after a night of no sleep. At this point we were delirious enough to think that the whole thing was just hilarious.
We checked into our housing (basically a hotel) and all of us passed out immediately.
Most of us woke up around 3pm in order to get to our 4pm sound check. Overall, the setup was great but they were lacking some of the sound equipment. We had pretty much everything we needed minus a few microphones and microphone clips. We got creative and made it work (see pictures below).
After sound check we met with quickly with the Commander of the Base. He thanked us for coming, offered to buy us a round of drinks, and explained to us that there was a 3 drink “minimum” on the base. We all wondered if we heard what we thought we heard before Whitney stepped in and corrected him. He obviously meant “maximum” but for a minute we thought we had all hit the jackpot.
The show went great. Once again we got to hang out with lots of great people from all over the country before heading back to the “hotel” around 2 or 3am and went to bed for our 7:30 am wake up call.
Meeting with the Commander
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LOVE THE PICTURES and blog...stay safe..love you all so much..mom
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