What happens in Vegas, Goes in my blog

Friday morning the One-Eyed Doll RV came and picked me up to start tour.  The drive to Las Vegas wasn’t too bad.  Some interesting sites along the way:

Best RV decoration ever!

Solar Panel Field in the desert.  Hard to get a picture of.

Throughout the dessert there were falling apart, sun bleached signs and billboards along the roads.  A lot of them said “Gafe” and “Aware” on them.  I kept seeing those 2 works over and over again.  Sometimes the rest of the sign would be faded and broken, but “gafe” or “aware” would be clearly readable. Riding through the desert seeing it over and over again, I started to wonder if it was some sort of crazy illuminati conspiracy or something.  When I have more time with internet access I want to see if there’s anything online about what it may actually be.

Another crazy thing driving through the desert to Las Vegas, it would be just desert land for hours, then suddenly you’d come across places like Primm or Gold Strike (?) we passed.  You go over a hill, and suddenly there’s this whole little casino town in the middle of no where.  Primm had a roller coaster, Outlet Mall, Hotels.  Then once you passed, it was back to desert land for hours.

Once we got to the venue, Vaughn and I got to work on my least favorite part of touring - organizing and taking inventory of all of the merch. *insert super unhappy Melinda face here* Running around moving heavy boxes in the NV heat makes it even less fun.  But at least now we’re mostly organized for the rest of the tour.

The first show was at a little dive bar off the strip called, not so coincidentally, The Dive Bar.  While there I met the guitarist form Black Death, the first Black Metal band from back in the 70’s. One of the openers was the local band iRie. They were super sweet girls (and I’m assuming guys, but they didn’t come to the table) and I wouldn’t mind seeing them again the next time OED comes through Vegas. The whole show was hosted by Enigma. We got a photo together and I told him he had to look cute so I could look super tough.  This was the result:

Later in the night, organizing was done, table was set up, I had a chance to talk to fans and One-Eyed Doll took the stage.  When it hit me.  I've really missed doing this!

Over all this show was WAY better than the last Vegas show.  There were more people in the crowd, the crowd was more into the show, there were more OED fans there, and sales were WAY better!  Kim even managed a little crowd surfing. Way to go street team for promoting this show!  Jeremy and Handsome Rob were at this show.  I also got to meet Kim’s friend Chris and a bunch of other awesome VIPs.  Unfortunately I didn’t get to hang out with the VIPs much after the show because I was loading up, but I really enjoyed talking to all of them.

Saturday we had a day off in Vegas. We did some shopping for equipment and odds & ends we needed.  Kim wanted to do some costume shopping, and we ended up at this random little costume shop. They were so helpful and nice.  We even got to go see some of the actual old showgirl costumes and other things they had in the back.  That place was so cool, but also made me want to go home right then and make costumes.

That night we had dinner and spent time with Kim’s cousin and his family that recently moved to Vegas.  They were more than hospitable and their little girl is SUPER cute!  She played with Kim for hours.  It was adorable.

And now I'm sitting in the RV, in a parking lot, somewhere in Colorado.  Tonight's show is in Grand Junction, Monday Colorado Springs, and Tuesday Denver!  There are a few of you I expect to see at at least one of these shows!