Le Salle's

Chico - January 24th

We have had really great luck with weather on this trip for it being January and all. It has rained twice: once on the way to monterey and once in seattle. well... today the weather decided to catch up with us a bit.

We left Eugene at 10:30 am. Mapquest told us we'd get into Chico about 5 which was when we need to set up at the venue. As we were coming down thru central Oregon it started to snow. We started to get a little worried but with nothing sticking we made it down to medford to stop for gas and lunch. As a side note, what the heck is the whole - you cant pump your own gas - deal? i cant be public safety - ive personally never seen, had or heard of any blowing up a gas station because of a gas pumping accident. it has to be some kind of jobs thing but when you have ONE guy working 15 pumps and you end up waiting longer for the dude to come take the hose out of your car then the entire time it took for the gas to be pumped thats not cool.

Anywho - so we get into Northern California near Shasta and the weather hits. SNOW. no much was sticking to the road - but it was really slushy and the snow was making everything else around look like a winter wonderland. No chains were required but we ended up driving 35 miles an hour all the way to redding. At this point it was already 6 o clock.

The gig was supposed to be a 3 hour bar gig - which in all actuality is not fun at all - so it kinda worked out in our favor as we got there about 7 - went on at 7:30 and played our hour and a half set. The bar was pretty large and a little bit lifeless into a group of friends came in with 7 girls screaming for Jason to take off his shirt for the last three songs. it was definitely a hard show to get into the music for us and we ended up driving back to Sacramento to spend the night at Kellen's after the show.