Hello from the good part of Poland...

Right now we are in Poland. Sean got over his little sickeness and is 98% better now. He had been sick for a little while and missed 2 shows but luckily they were the two shows that didn't really matter. He had a pretty high fever and just had no energy. It was mostly because of not sleeping for 36 hours then when he did he slept in the same sweaty clothes from the show in Jonkaping. Luckily I have been healthy all tour...besides my allergies. I've been taking 2 of my vegetarian multivitamins daily, sleeping as much as possible, and making sure I eat of pretty balanced diet while on tour. Speaking of diets, I've been able to maintain...har har...a vegan diet all tour. Every night and most of every morning the promoters will make us vegan breakfast and dinner so that is good. While we are on the road I eat a lot of peanut butter and jelly. Awesome. I've only been drinking water and high vitamin juices when I think I need it. When we stop It's kind of hard to pick out hte vegan snacks since we are in so many different countries with so many different languages. Kind of sucks but I've been doing really well. I've been eating a lot better than a lot of guys on tour. I'm just glad I haven't gotten sick....even though my allergies give me a running nose probably 20 hours of the day and I sneeze constantly.

So far tour has been awesome. Some good shows, some amazing shows, some awful shows, some shows that we think will be good and turn out only decent, and some shows where we think are going to suck and we end up playing well and selling a lot of merch. By far my favorite city so far has been Jonkoping. I want to go back so bad. It was awesome, not just the show which was amazing also but the city was beautiful. I can't get over it. Just a little town on the tip of a giant lake. My favorite drive so far had to be the drive I did through the night from Germany through Denmark and into Sweden. I know I said this already but it was awesome. Sunrise while crossing the bridge from Denmark to Sweden. Amazing. The worst LOOKING show so far had to be Leipzig. Wow...you would have ran. First off it was on a street where there gross punk were just laying around everryyywhere and squa buildings everywhere. Through this little doorway from the street you walk through a hall that smells like urine. That is because at the end was a little urinal under the stairs where piss just sat. Ughhh....i almost puked a couple times, no lies. Once you walk out the back of the halway into a little open area outside you can see almost like jail bars on these windows to a TINY room with a brick stage which was almost impossible to NOT roll your ankle. Once the show started things went well. This was one of the shows where Sean rested and Bill and I sang a couple songs each. We ended up selling a bunch of merch and the promoter made us some awesome breakfast. By the way....I love tomatoes for breakfast. The worst drive so far was definately anything through Poland. We saw the worst of Poland I think and if it wasn't the worst I don't want to see or hear about the worst. There aren't really highways so everytime you drive through a place that isn't all farmlands you go through like 10 red lights. Makes the drive 100000000 times longer and overall horrible. The place we are now is actually awesome. The venue fell through and the singer for Stone Heart, who are awesome, let us play in his garage where we made close to like 200€ for the show and we sold a TON of merch. His place is awesome and the little part of town we saw was really cool. Everything is tiny and looks like its made for midgets.

I am really starting to miss home. I want to stay in my bed. I miss Ashley, I miss my family, I miss being able to sleep without waking up 100 times because my back kills. This tour is awesome though. I am really happy with my situation right now. I am so excited I am seeing Europe right now and want to see so much but I also have so much to look forward to when I get home. My family, my girlfriend, school and work. I think it will all be a really good fall/winter. I got to class from 11-3 only 2 days a week and have 2 online classes. All the classes are toward my major and aren't filler classes. I got all the classes I wanted and needed to take and at the best times. I can work full time and still do really well in school. I am really going to start screenprinting once I get back also. I'm sick of waiting for money to get everything I need so I am just going to outsource the screen making process. While I was first getting into screen printing I read to not stress yourself out by doing everything yourself and I never took that into consideration because I thought it would be too costly. I did the math and this all works out. I am very excited for everything at the moment. Can't wait to get back and see everyone. Hang out with Ashley, tell my parents and sisters everything, and play with my dog. This blog only lets me post 5 pics at once so I'll pic out some good ones and show you. Hope everyone is well back home. See you soon.

-Chris