Chatenooga, TN

This is the second day of a four show stretch before I finally go back home! It will have been gone for about three weeks. The time off in different cities definitely helps make it doable. Monday we were in Columbus, GA for the Avenged Sevenfold concert. We checked in to the hotel around 9:30 am. I went back to sleep for a while, relaxed in the room and went to the bus around 5. Then we all had dinner at a Logan's then headed to the arena. The bus pulled into the docks where all the other artist trucks and docks were and we walked in through the backstage. Some the stagehands were hanging around and recognized us from being there a few days before. We got there right before the band Buckcherry went on, then Avenged Sevenfold was after that. I knew a few songs by each band. The stage production was pretty cool. Lots of lights and some LED panels that moved around on the stage.

After that we went back to the hotel, and left for Charlotte, NC the next day after check out. It was about a 6 hour drive, I pretty much stayed in my bunk to sleep off some of the beer :)

We were in a really nice hotel right in the heart of downtown. It was the Omni. We met up for dinner and walked to an Irish pub/restaurant which was really good. I had to get corned beef and cabbage. Especially since I didn't have any on St. Patrick's day. Then a few of us went walking around to find another bar to hang out in. There weren't too many exciting options since it was a Monday night. Brandon told me about this place called The Breakfast Club which is an 80s themed club. We tried to go there, but it wasn't open early in the week. I was disappointed.
We ended up stopping at just your regular downtown sports bar/restaurant. A couple of the guys watched sports and the rest of us played pool.

The next day I met up with a couple of the guys for lunch, walked around a bit more, found a movie theatre and decided to come back later for a movie. Four of us saw "I Love You Man" later that afternoon in the coolest movie place. It was really new and trendy, had some bars and a really nice restaurant. The theatre seats were soft red vevlety love-seat type things. Then we met up with two more guys, had dinner, and split off different ways. I went to Howl at the Moon with one of the guys, and two more showed up later. There was hardly anybody there, but it was still a lot of fun. One song we requested was "Dance Magic Dance" from the movie Labyrinth. As soon as the piano player read it he started laughing. He played it very well, and later told us that he had never done that before, he just knew it from seeing the movie so many times.

The next morning we had to be on the bus by 7:30 to drive to the next venue. Shows are still going well. It sounds like sometime this fall it will get bigger.