Day 3 : near extinction

Theres going to be a severe lack of photos for this day 3 post. There are two reasons, one: I started the day off with a dead phone/camera and two: it was really dark in the venue and none of the pictures came out. Also i guess most of the day was spent driving. So, here comes 1000 words for every picture we're missing...

Before we left St Louis we had to make an emergency trip to the shopping mall. Our fall fashions were dreadfully out of style, so ben took us to a place called urban outfitters where he works. We tried on trucker-style caps, white belts, doc martens, and v-neck Ts. We even tried on some big sunglasses and nut hugging denim jeans before we decided on one hoodie and made our way to the food court.

After all that we hit the road. Tulsa, OK is a really great town. We played at the soundpony, which was very dark, but reminded us a little bit of the bishop back home. We got free hotdogs all night and the show was a lot of fun. The best part was that there were so many excellent people hanging out there. There was no shortage of fun people to talk to who genuinely loved Tulsa. The pride was contagious and we definitely left that town convinced of it's greatness. 

We did hit one hitch, however, at the end of the night. We met a super cool dude named Mitch who offered us a place to sleep after the show. We got his address and he headed home while we hung around til the end of the night. When all was said and done we put mitch's address into the old gar baby gps system and proceeded to get very, very lost. We called him, but he was already asleep so we were sunk. Luckily, just before we left the soundpony we met a fine young lady named Vannessa who had offered to show is around the next day. After asking her advice, she offered us a place to lay our heads at her apartment. So, at 3am, we headed back across Tulsa to vannessa's place. It was super comfortable and she was so nice to us it almost made us glad to have gotten lost.

The next morning, Vannessa's roomate Erin showed up and was equally as nice and intersting to talk to. We didn't have a ton of time, but they took us downtown to get some coffee and we all got to sit and have some great conversation before we had to split again. A million thanks to Vannessa and Erin, who we can't wait to see again.


Just to illustrate the darkness of the evening, here's a picture of a great Tulsa band called No Water. Their aggro was impressive and they were some tight rockers. La Panther Happens also played last night. They were great too, and both bands were made up of super nice dudes.

 
Another thing that happened after the show last night was this. The unfortunate thing about this is that it happens every night.