The past week has been pretty awesome as we have been getting closer to the East Coast. Being in a more familiar area has been great and everyone is excited to see friends and family back home in Richmond.
Indianapolis was a pretty quick day for me. I didn’t wake up until about noon, the time everyone had to check out of the hotels anyways. As people were loading their bags back onto the bus I changed and we wandered around the nearby mall. The buses left for Butler University where we would be performing that night. The campus was beautiful and we had plenty of time to explore it. After watching football practice for awhile and eating dinner with Jerry Springer we got back on the bus to relax before our show. All went well and we left for Columbus that night.
Columbus, OH:
Once Caleb and I finally dragged ourselves out of bed we went for a run in downtown Columbus which was much warmer than we had expected despite the cloudy weather. There wasn’t a whole lot to see in downtown but it was an Ohio State game day so there were plenty of fans wandering around the streets. The Hokies beat Duke in an easy game as many students back home left early or didn’t even go. Kyle Thomas came up to see me since he goes to school a little over an hour away. He got to see Jerry, the set and meet many of the other acts. We left that night for Detroit and there were many jokes about how sketchy the city was going to be when we got there.
Detroit, MI:
At about 4 in the morning when our buses pulled up to the hotel most of the group got off and went into the hotel rooms. I heard some yelling down on the street from the 15th floor and went back to the lobby to get my phone charger that I needed anyways. Once I got there, the bellman was radioing for the police because of a man wandering in the median claiming he had a gun. I came to find out later he had tried to get on two of the buses but luckily both drivers pushed him off, not before he got a swing on one of them though. As the man got closer to the entrance of the hotel the bellman took him to the ground and waited for the police to get there. The saying the next day among everyone was “Welcome to Detroit.” We took a day off from running outside but there was plenty of room in the gym to get a in good workout before leaving for the venue. We could see Canada from the hotel window and one of the backup dancers had her family come from back home across the border to watch the show.
New York, NY:
The drive to New York was about 10 hours so some of us were waking up as we got there. The hotel rooms were not already prepared and we waited until we could put all of our stuff in one room. Quickly, the group got over to Manhattan from Weehawken, NJ where our hotel was. We had a meeting with one of the Blue Man Group founders Matt Goldman as well as a few other members of the company. They gave us insight in the way BMG expanded from its original shows and ways that they broke down responsibilities among the members. After watching some videos of the group and hearing more stories, two guys from the marketing department took us to the theater the guys have been performing in for 20 years and then to the recording studio where the music is made. Upstairs we got to play with some of the instruments used in the shows. We left the studio and got some local pizza before going shopping in SOHO.
The second day wasn’t as fun but definitely enjoyable. We did a track workout midday right along the Hudson River with amazing views of the city. Rob, Caleb and I went into the city to meet up with the rest of the group. We looked around the new memorial site being built at ground zero and then went up to the edge of Central Park. We saw news trucks outside of The Plaza Hotel and found out this morning it was for Charlie Scheen’s drunken rampage. We also got a quick glimpse of Jordin Sparks outside of her Broadway hit of “In The Heights”. We made it back to the hotel and got ready for today’s show. Tonight we will be heading to Richmond where I will get to see Krysta and my family.
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