Cambridge/Waterloo

After our show Friday in Guelph, we came back to Joe's. Saturday's show was in Cambridge, which is only twenty minutes away, so we spent all of Saturday around the house.

But this was no lounging day, oh no. We helped Joe and his dad do some wicked landscaping - mulching their garden's like we were pro landscapers. If i was doing the work at my own house, I would not have been having a good time. But for some reason, doing it here wasn't so bad. It might have been that I was still able to spend time with my friends while doing the work, it might have been that Joe's parents (and Joe) have been so hospitable to us these past couple days that we felt this was a way of earning our keep, it may have been that we spend hours on hours in the van and this was a good means of some well needed physical exercise, or it could have been the cause of a strange vortex which exists somewhere in Ontario. Either way, it was an afternoon well spent.

Pinky made us some sweet pizzas for supper - a la Tomasinos, sorry Tomavinos, style. They were delicious. We also had a cornucopia of beers and pie - and we gave Joe's parents a framed photo of us and a bottle of wine for putting up with us the past two weekends.

After all that fun, we headed to Cambridge to play an all ages show with - seriously - metal bands. The bar was the skeeziest place I've ever seen - it reminded me of something out of the movies, the kind of bar that could be found in redneck Texas or something. It was good to see a couple of the guys in Persona again.

Given the other bands on the bill, we upped the ante a little bit, playing a melange of our heavier songs and our songs which include face-melting guitar solos. It went over better than I thought, we got a good response (all things considered), sold some merch, and then - yep - made our way back to Joe's.

We spent the night drinking beer in his hot tub. So rock n roll.

Today Joe's mom is cooking us a roast (obviously taking a page from the book of Katherine) and we are heading to Hamilton a little later. Today is a day off for us, so we're going to just hang out with our friends Maria and Cassie in Steeltown, and - if the rain holds off - hopefully have a barbecue.

Monday is our last Ontario show. I think we're driving straight to Fredericton when we're done playing Monday night, stopping through Montreal to pick up our shirts that we forgot there.

Its hard to believe we've already been gone a week.

And to think, one week from today, I will be sleeping in my own bed.