it's the simple things that make me happiest really. i have been so blessed to have been with many friends in the past month some old, some new.
at the beginning of april, allie and i traveled on megabus from ann arbor to chicago for the music, magic, make peace tour. we were super excited about the double decker bus:
truck stops are always a highlight on any road trip. i always attempt to find the most random object possible and purchase it. i present to you the brightest object ever made and purchased for $5:
allie and i make great travel partners. our agenda is always the same; ready for anything. when we saw the bus pull into the parking lot she said "is that a..." and i finished the sentence "...A DOUBLE DECKER BUS?!" we proceeded to pump our fists victoriously into the air and go "WOO WOO WOO!" we busted ass to get up top and at the very front. it was well worth the view pulling into chi:
let's see...allie and alyse graduated from the university of michigan april 26th. 10,000 graduates receiving bachelors, masters and doctorates. there was a crowd of about 40,000 proud moms, dads, grammies & gramps, aunties and uncles, brothers, sisters, lovers & friends. we had a late night before the ceremony, so i was struggling to stay awake. bob woodward gave a moving commencement address. he gave a message of working for happiness, not dollars. wise man.
that evening, my dear friend micaela flew into town from denver and we went out to the brown jug to continue the graduation celebration with allie, alyse, & friends. we got about two hours of sleep then started our journey to the land above.
katie, allie, mic and i left ann arbor at about 7:30am. after a lovely little stop, search, & interrogation at the border...we were on our way to toronto for another music, magic, makepeace tour stop.
about 9am we broke out our smuggled contraband (all the way from denver! thanks j.) after 35 minutes it felt like seven hours had gone by, i looked at the clock and couldn't believe it had only been 35 minutes. by 9:45am it felt like it was 5pm. needless to say, the four hours to toronto was a haze.
we arrived in toronto around 12:30 and made a pit stop, then headed to the venue. i think we smoked eight different times before the show began. (thanks tina & dave) it was a good day/night. i FINALLY met leon! i just want to put him in my pocket and carry him everywhere with me. he can be friends with todd carey's mom.
i met whitney and her mom. i'm excited to spend more time with them in july. we passed time in line by pinning our love for bushwalla to our crotches, enjoying the fellowship of friends old and new, & taking bowl breaks in the car:
i felt that the tour had really grown since we saw them in chicago. i'm listening to the makepeace brothers set while i'm typing this. i am so fortunate that there are people who tape these shows and share them with others. my short-term memory isn't that great at remembering details so it's nice to be able to go back and say "ahh...that was lovely."
after the toronto show i was so pumped to drive to montreal! i slammed a can of soda and was hyped to make the most of the drive.
i made it one hour before i was nodding off and had to pull over. this is an example of what coke in a can will do to you. don't drink soda kids, it's garbage. i pulled into a hampton inn parking lot and we slept in katie's luxury suv that we were blessed to be traveling in. we eventually made the group decision to get a hotel room at about 4am. this was the best decision we made the entire trip. we all got to rest our bones, sinuses, stomachs, charge our phones & take showers. that shower may or may not have saved all of us.
traveling from city to city can be very exhausting. we had the time of our lives, but who knew sitting in a moving vehicle could wear you out so much? we only did it for three days. big high fives to those who do it for weeks at a time.
after a pit stop at tim horton's to refuel, we were on our way to montreal for the one of the last dates of the mmp tour. i think i drove the whole way there, five hours. we found the venue, went and bought our tickets at the door (a first!). we found our hostel to drop our packs and change. we rushed back to metropolis to get there just in time for doors. once inside we had an hour or longer wait until the show started so we sat and rested.
the show was my favorite of the three i saw on this tour. the energy was addicting. i pray that i will be blessed to work with artists of this caliber throughout my career.
after the show we had a beer at the bar next door. we said goodbye to leon and melissa and headed back to our hostel. i think i fell asleep as i was climbing into my bunk. our hostel was in an old home. i did some research before we went and found it was everything to be expected. if you ever need a hostel in montreal, quebec: http://www.montrealbackpackers.com/
after waking up, we packed our bags, checked out of the hostel and we in search of a crepe breakfast.
we found a great place and had the breakfast of a lifetime. micaela and allie had coffee, i had some herbal tea
(pronounced HERB-al) and katie had hot chocolate:
for breakfast allie, mic and i had the alpha male of breakfast sandwiches. it would dominate against any other breakfast
sandwich if it were in a competition. i can't say anymore, for fear of hopping on a flight to montreal right now.
here it is in all it's glory:
we also had crepes:
to be continued...
in the morning, we checked out of our hostel and
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