Days 11 & 12

The past few days have been quite awesome. On Day 11, we finally got to leave the Meadville, Pennsylvania area after using it as our home base for about 3 days. Everyone in the band was quite ecstatic. However, shortly after pulling onto the highway we heard our air conditioning belt snap, which proceeded to throw our Serpentine Belt, the main belt for the engine, off track. The belt frayed 1/4 of the way through and we had to pull over, where Justin proceeded to cut off the frayed piece of belt and repair the schism with duct tape. We then got back onto the road and off the next exit and luckily found an Auto Zone, where we bought a new belt and Justin put it on within minutes...the whole delay lasted about an hour.
Unfortunately, we were now very late for the show. We called ahead and Josh of Lexsis Jumps gave the club owner our situation, and it basically came down to whether or not we could reach Niagra in time to play our set. We floored it down the highway (not speeding too heavily of course) and barely made the show, which was easily one of the best of the tour. A bunch of kids came out to the club and danced non-stop through the set. All in all, the night was extremely fun.

We stayed overnight at a friend's place in Niagra (many thanks to John for the place to stay) and on our day off we all ventured into Canada, visited the falls, ate some good food, gambled some money away, and came back across the border (Walter barely made it back, we think the border patrol suspected him a member of the KGB) a much happier bunch.

Pictures will be up as soon as we get on a connection that will allow us to upload the files.

Thats it for now,
Dan / OWC