We played in Denver yesterday, and spent a day getting there and a day going back south. Kinda redundant for just the one gig, but the Colorado audience more than made up for the long trip! Today we woke up in Amarillo, TX, for another day off. The bus was parked at a hotel, which was close to a couple of restaurants, and we chose Mr. Lin's Buffet, which had to be the largest buffet I have ever seen! They had all kinds of food, but mostly chinese, and even some sushi. Everything was all you can eat for $7.99! Tasted pretty ok too, and when we all had our fill we had a band meeting planning the next recording. It will still be almost a year away, but time passes quickly and it's better to be prepared.
Joacim and Pontus went back to the hotel to shower, while the rest of us continued across the freeway to Target and Best Buy. They had the iPad on display, it was released two days ago here. Pretty cool stuff, but I was disappointed that it wasn't a small computer but instead a large iPhone. I'll probably get one anyway, haha.
After purchasing a hard drive (Anders), a couple of movies (Fredrik) and some stand-up comedy DVD's (me) we started back. On the way was a Hooter's, and we spontaneously went in there for "just one beer". You know how that goes, and we ended up having a fantastic evening!
I e-mailed a pic of us drinking out of those gianormous tankards to Joacim, and sure enough, smelling a party they joined us.
Anders was goofing off with a small bowl of ranch dressing, which is something I cannot for the life of me understand why it doesn't exist in Europe. It's a great tasting sallad dressing made of mayonaise, herbs and salt and pepper. Or something, I'm no chef. I just know it tastes great.
Sufficiently boozed, we stumbled across the eight-lane freeway, something which we only hours ago had joked about doing. Goes to show what alcohol does to your sense of judgement, I guess. We made it safely across and back to the bus, feeling like we had just run across the street in Frogger.