Day Three-July 18th-The Stone House-Fredericksburg, VA
Posted By: Jeremiah
What a day… This was the first day of tour that we didn’t have a show, but we feel it was time well spent either way. We got into Aaron and Jesse’s house late last night, 4 am to be exact, and went straight to sleep. We wasted no time this morning getting started on the day. We got up, had lunch and left for some kayaking with Mr. Jim Stone himself. We had a blast swimming, rope swinging, rowing, eagle watching, and “chuting”. After a few hours of that we came home to some amazing food cooked by Mrs. Stone, which we wasted no time devouring to the pleasure of our grumbling tummies. After dinner we decided to see if we could get the racks put on top of our sweet tour vehicle, a ’96 Tacoma extended cab with all of our equipment packed in the most indescribable way (if you have ever seen it, if you haven’t, it is a must see, please wait around after a show to see one of the most amazing packing anomalies you will ever see, and yes, it is an anomaly). Since we don’t want to have to pile all of our clothing and other necessities on our laps the whole tour, we decided to add some racks and mount a turtle shell to the top for those things, but as we opened up one of the boxes, we realized we were missing some pieces, so at about nine, Aaron called and found out that Dick’s had what we needed, we thought, so Aaron and I hiked on up there with his sister Olivia, little did we know what was in store (literally). We got there and Aaron found the guy he talked to on the phone and we began looking at all the boxes and realized that they did NOT have what we needed. As we talked to Ian (the employee), he told us about a possible option…we looked in a bigger box and it had the pieces we needed among a bunch of other pieces for a little more than we wanted to spend, so he asked us to give him a minute to go talk to his manager to see if they could cut us a deal, since we didn’t need 95% of what we were going to have to buy. Well, as many know, God does some amazing things at some very unexpected times. Ian came back and said, we could just go ahead and get the one part we needed out of the box and they would work out replacing that part, so we asked how much and he told us nothing, he said we could just take it for free. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but unsigned musicians who are in college don’t really have an impressive amount of disposable funds. One thing we have all learned as a band from this tour is that, without a doubt, God is completely in control of this tour. We would love for you to ask us in person (possibly at a show near you) why that is, it is far too important to all of us to try to put it within the restricting confines of a blog. We left Dick’s, headed back home and enjoyed some apple pie and ice cream and now I am going to go get some sleep. Good night or morning or day to you all (depending on when it is you decided to grace our blog with your presence). We love you all and I personally hope to see and meet many of you in the very near future.
What a day… This was the first day of tour that we didn’t have a show, but we feel it was time well spent either way. We got into Aaron and Jesse’s house late last night, 4 am to be exact, and went straight to sleep. We wasted no time this morning getting started on the day. We got up, had lunch and left for some kayaking with Mr. Jim Stone himself. We had a blast swimming, rope swinging, rowing, eagle watching, and “chuting”. After a few hours of that we came home to some amazing food cooked by Mrs. Stone, which we wasted no time devouring to the pleasure of our grumbling tummies. After dinner we decided to see if we could get the racks put on top of our sweet tour vehicle, a ’96 Tacoma extended cab with all of our equipment packed in the most indescribable way (if you have ever seen it, if you haven’t, it is a must see, please wait around after a show to see one of the most amazing packing anomalies you will ever see, and yes, it is an anomaly). Since we don’t want to have to pile all of our clothing and other necessities on our laps the whole tour, we decided to add some racks and mount a turtle shell to the top for those things, but as we opened up one of the boxes, we realized we were missing some pieces, so at about nine, Aaron called and found out that Dick’s had what we needed, we thought, so Aaron and I hiked on up there with his sister Olivia, little did we know what was in store (literally). We got there and Aaron found the guy he talked to on the phone and we began looking at all the boxes and realized that they did NOT have what we needed. As we talked to Ian (the employee), he told us about a possible option…we looked in a bigger box and it had the pieces we needed among a bunch of other pieces for a little more than we wanted to spend, so he asked us to give him a minute to go talk to his manager to see if they could cut us a deal, since we didn’t need 95% of what we were going to have to buy. Well, as many know, God does some amazing things at some very unexpected times. Ian came back and said, we could just go ahead and get the one part we needed out of the box and they would work out replacing that part, so we asked how much and he told us nothing, he said we could just take it for free. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but unsigned musicians who are in college don’t really have an impressive amount of disposable funds. One thing we have all learned as a band from this tour is that, without a doubt, God is completely in control of this tour. We would love for you to ask us in person (possibly at a show near you) why that is, it is far too important to all of us to try to put it within the restricting confines of a blog. We left Dick’s, headed back home and enjoyed some apple pie and ice cream and now I am going to go get some sleep. Good night or morning or day to you all (depending on when it is you decided to grace our blog with your presence). We love you all and I personally hope to see and meet many of you in the very near future.
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