Last Night in West Orange

So it comes to this: tonight's our last night in West Orange. I must say, I will miss the Residence Inn - it has been a good temporary home. Mostly I'll miss the really awesome glass tupperware that came with the room :)  In all seriousness, it was nice to spend some time in the area I grew up. I came across so many old memories (especially when visiting my old house) and even ran into some old acquaintances from grade school and my first high school. New Jersey, I miss you - and the next time someone asks me if it's really like the Jersey Shore, I will probably smack them!

Tomorrow morning we're driving to Cream Ridge, NJ to perform at the Cream Ridge Winery. It's a two-day gig that we do every year around this time, when they're having their wine tasting. We play for a long time (about 5 hours!) but since we're background music it's okay. Plus we get some breaks! We play for five hours tomorrow, and five hours again on Sunday. We're staying overnight in Cream Ridge, then after the performance on Sunday we're driving straight to Chicago. Well, not straight to Chicago - thirteen hours starting at 4 in the afternoon would get us to Chicago around 5 A.M.! Stopping in Cleveland Sunday night, then driving to Chicago Monday morning after a stop for a college visit to Notre Dame in Indiana. Aaah, never a dull moment. 

Well, I'd like to say I'm going to sleep now - I'm super tired. However, the family printer, which has been through almost 7 years of brochure printing, finally died the other day. Rest in peace, HP photosmart 7700. I'd say 35 color brochures for each performance probably tires out a printer really fast. Anyway, that put us about a week behind on the printing of brochures. Had to go get a new one, and it started printing about an hour ago. So I have a long night ahead of me :)

Nicole