Ice Man & Margo's Wedding!!!

Hot Springs, VA
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We got a fancy hotel room for the night which is good cuz I'm SUPER sick, but we had to leave at 8am to get to VA!!! :( ugh.

At least we saw this waterfall...kinda made it worth it.


Zac was delighted to see that Bob Ross was ABSOLUTELY right about the best stroke angle for sycamore trees.




The drive was pretty and we loaded our instruments into the cabin all top secret style. Margo is marrying Corey ("Ice Man") and she doesn't know that we called her dad Frank Bonarrigo ( of "The Lafayettes") to perform 2 songs as a surprise at the wedding. He made a super slick record on RCA in the 60's and we've been listening to the tracks in the van all day. Zac was feeling like he needed some "decompression" time so he drank half my NyQuil bottle. (The Family Size one from BJ's)
We found him in the woods later that day telling jokes to a tree.

Here's Frank Bonarrigo and Margo....

Here's Margo's Gram and her man Peter...check out that blazer!

After the ceremony we all had some cocktails, ate some STEAK!!!!, had some cake, and then we played some music. Frank sounded awesome....y'all need to check out The Lafayettes. Here's some random pics from the wedding:









This is Margo...

THis is Ice Man...


Your wedding was awesome guys....see you next time we're in VA. Have fun on your honeymoon.....we'll just be right here...in the van. Bye!


D

Cullowhee, NC

Western Carolina University
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It's Halloween and we just made it on time to NC for the show. There's construction and vampires and stuff so Josh got in the van to show us the way. The sound guys were super nice and our new friend Jackie came all the way from Ashville. We didn't take any pics, but we DID take a tray of turkey and 2 loaves of bread.

We also saw 2 hot air balloons above the road...people still do that??????



D

Harrisonburg, VA

Clementine Cafe
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After finishing up our last day of rehearsals in NYC at 3am. We slept for 6 hours and got right back into the blaze. We're headed to Harrisonburg, VA and we STILL haven't had a day of rest since our birthday. We got to the club and said hello to Jeremiah and the rest of the staff. Had some good eats while Nathan from Shapiro set up to open the show. It's his side project and I forget the name, but they put on a really fun show. We played our set and hung late with Carrie and Grayson. K had his limit of like 3 beers....

Jeremiah was kind enough to invite us back to his house.....time to load the blaze

Pat and Dave. Check.

Zac. Check.

cool. where's K?



Ah.

REHEARSING THE ALBUM

A random studio in Mid-Town
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Soooooooo we woke up the next day and got right into a 10-hour rehearsal. We're about to record the 2nd album so it's "Pre Production" time (as they say in the biz). Rehearsing these songs each day for 10 hours a day. I'm officially REALLY sick and now we're in a super small room EVERY day for 10 hours. Luckily no one else caught it AND we managed to narrow down the list to 14 songs.







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Surprise B-day Party!

Still going
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My amazing family threw me a surprise party at my sister Susan's house the next day. Pat's feeling a little confused cuz it was technically HIS b-day about 12 hours ago....

My friend's kids call me "Uncle Sunshine" so they thought this beverage appropriate:

K and Mocha came with us in the blaze and brought their daughter Sola! She's so funny right now cuz she'll just say anything you tell her to....her phrase of choice for that night was "How y'all doin?"

After a couple child-size beer funnels we gave her a go at the pinata....


When she proved too dizzy to succeed, Zac stepped in....

Bingo. Skittles and condoms!!!

Sola headed straight for the bright blues...


I was later assaulted by Pat and his minions for "birthday spankings"


After 3 hours of the Uncle Moonshine, Zac and Pat decided to portray the 4 seasons through "eye expression." Here they are in respective order starting with Fall....









Thanks for the party Susan & Jeff!

D