(57) Flagstaff, AZ and Albuquerque, NM

Saturday, April 11th: Rudy and I drove 495 miles (17,701 total miles) to Flagstaff, Arizona. It was a pretty hilly drive and we passed through some beautiful parts of California. One of places we passed through was Tahachapi, which is where Michelle’s Brother’s Girlfriend, named Brandy, is from. As we passed in Arizona and started to hit the higher elevations, we caught some falling snow! It was cold enough for it to accumulate on the ground as well. That night Carolyn, Eric, Jamie, Jonny, Scott and I went to a restaurant called Black Bart’s. It’s a steak house where the servers also sing show tunes and standards. They had a small stage with a piano and the servers would randomly hop up and sing a song. Our server and drink girl did a couple of songs including a duet from “Wicked.” The drink girl was looking at going to graduate school for Musical Theater so we talked to her about school we thought were good. We were gawked at a bit when they found out that we were on a national tour with the Kennedy Center. We had some great food and a lot of fun.

Sunday, April 12th: Rudy planned an Easter Egg hunt for everyone in the breakfast area of the hotel. Just after noon, we met downstairs and ran around the breakfast area searching for eggs. Each egg had a quote from someone in the cast and a piece of paper corresponding to a piece of candy. The competition to find the eggs was intense but very fun. The rest of the day I spent relaxing and catching up on pictures and paperwork and things like that. Caroline, Jeffery and I went back to Black Bart’s for dinner, even though it wasn’t as entertaining.

Monday, April 13th: Eric and I drove 332 miles (18,033 total miles) to Albuquerque, NM. I got lunch at the Applebee’s next door and then made some phone calls. We had load in that night at Popejoy Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico. Load in went very well and Caroline and Jill ended up leaving early. We had a small scare with the light board at the end of the night but it was all worked by the time we left at 10:00pm.

Tuesday, April 14th: We had two shows at 10:30am(109) and 12:15pm(110). They did a short questions and answer session after the second show before we started load out. The load out went well and we were back at the hotel by early afternoon. We had our last tech crew meeting in the lobby. I bought everyone key chain compass/thermometers as an end of tour gift. They let me lead them all over the country for the last 6 months so I gave them something to help guide them when I’m gone! That night, Carolyn, Dave, Eric and I watched a couple of episodes of “Lost.”