Hello all from Cleveland,
I know, i know, not a great place to be at all. But what can ya do? So Before i get into that....
Sunday morning we had a work call at 8:00am to unload a truck of empty boxes and get things organized for loadout. We had show call at 12:30, and finished the show just before 4:00pm. We took an hour for dinner and began loadout at 5:00pm. We did a half hour split dinner at some point. Electrics and sound breaking first, and then carpenters and loaders second. The last truck was packed and closed up shortly before 12:30. So 7 and a half hours to break it all down.
We headed back to the hotel, cleaned up, showered, some people hit the bar, and we all met on the bus for a 2:00am departure. So we climped on to the bus watched some family guy for an hour or so and i climbed into my bottom bunk. A little cold, i fell asleep for a bit, only to be awoken from a command to get up. Staggering from my bunk i tossed on a sweatshirt and went into the lounge where 2 CBP agents were waiting for us. They began to rattle thru names on passports. People slowly came out one by one, bc of the tight quarters its hard for people to get out fast. One of the members of group was sleeping in the back lounge and the command for being awake didnt reach there right away so he was a little behind, and his name was the last to be read, and one of the border agents had no patients and was yelling at us for him to get out there. And threatened to tear the bus apart and go through everything if he didnt get out there. Not a pleasent gentlemen to be dealing with at 3? 4?am not sure what time it was. So then after that 2 minute ordeal i climbed back into bed to enjoy the bumpy and jostling ride to Cleveland. As noted by everyone on the crew, some veterans of the tour bus life, the driver and ride was horrible.
We pulled into cleveland around 7:30am, and i vaguely remember getting the key to my apartment and coming up here and passing out until 11am, grabbed a shower, went out and got lunch and showed up to work an hour early, so i sat around until 2pm, at which point we began loading the set in. Started at 2pm, we wrapped up for the evening at 11pm. we broke until 8am Tuesday morning and we broke the load in crew at 3pm. So not counting meals, it took us 14 to load the show in.
Now, i would write about game 4, but i am tired and i am going to bed.
But i will say this... watching three homeruns get cranked out of the park in a row is a VERY exhilirating thing to watch.
P.s. My apologies for the poor spelling and poor punctuation and poor grammar in this post
Good night.
2 comments:
I'm glad you got to see the home runs because I was sad you had to see the rest. K
GO SOX!! I think your Aunt Sue and Uncle Steve are jetting back from Paree to see Games 1 and 2. They have a rough life!
Deb
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