It is Sat. Dec. 12th.
We are preparing for our second AFE (Armed Forces Entertainment) tour and we depart Tuesday, Dec. 15th around 11am. (holy sh*t, thats like 3 days away!) We are trading in the foot of snow currently on the ground in Iowa for three weeks in the Middle Eastern desert. We will be entertaining US Troops stationed in Bahrain, Djibouti, Qatar, and Kuwait.
We toured all summer and were incredibly busy so we decided to take some time off this fall to re-group and get organized. Last week we moved into a new practice space (warehouse #2) in Des Moines' East Village. We started rehearsing and getting back in the swing of things. We have decided to learn a few new songs and are in the midst of perfecting every Christmas Carol ever written (not true). But we are getting everything ready to go before we ship out Tuesday morning around 1100 hours. (I think? It's time to get a refresher on military time)
Anyways, we will be taking pictures, writing down stories, and posting as often as we can. We are also going to try to update our other accounts as often as possible. If you aren't our "friend" on Facebook or a "follower" on Twitter the links to those sites are below.
Hopefully this blog will allow you to come along on the trip of a lifetime for us and experience it as we do. We will of course edit out all the boring/un-interesting parts like the 14 hour flights, 7 hour layovers, etc... We are honored, excited, and just a little bit nervous for the tour to begin but are very much looking forward to spending the Holiday Season with the Troops defending our Country.
We've got about three days to get everything organized, packed, and ready to go so its time to get off the computer and start getting ready. We'll try to update at least one more time before we head out.
see ya out there.
BIT
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