Bothell - Lyon's Den

Bothell - January 19th

We stayed the night in Bremerton at John & Jill Wallen's place. They were far too good to us. They had pizza when we showed up last night and a large breakfast for us this morning - not to mention a large basement to call our home. It is this kind of generosity that has given us the ability to do this tour and keep our spirits high. This is a very low budget tour and the kindness of friends like John & Jill are completely priceless. Not only does it help out financially but it brings a sense that there are people in the world who care about your success which means a ton when you are out on the road every night not knowing if people will show up to your gigs.

During the day today, we took the ferry over from Bremerton to Seattle. It was a nice relaxing journey and it was really cool to see some of the surroundings of the Puget Sound. Everyone in the band has a love for Washington.

When I was scheduling the tour, we ended up having a down day in the Seattle area on a Saturday night because we were playing in Silverdale on friday and Seattle on sunday. Not playing on saturday night didn't make much sense so we picked up a gig in a town called Bothell about 20 minutes northeast of Seattle.

It is definitely the gig of the trip that I would leave out the next time around. It was one of those nights where it was hard for the band to get into the performance though i'm sure we picked up a few new fans and that's what this tour is all about.