My Tears Froze To My Face

It's 6am and we just arrived in Nashville. Jenn and Ella were in the
parking lot to greet Miguel :) I have a writing apointment at 11... At
least musicians don't start their day too early! I am gonna get to
sleep a few hours. :)

One little story from this morning... or I guess it would be yesterday
morning? ummm... the last time I "woke up" that's how we'll put it...

We asked the managers at the hotel last night if we could leave our
gear and instruments inside so they wouldn't sit in the cold trailer
over night. This cold is pretty brutal to our gear. And the guys said
"Oh yeah! There are NO events in here tomorrow. Not a problem. Leave
your stuff here and we aren't even getting any deliveries... so you
can leave the Suburban/Trailer parked in front of the loading dock"

That was PERFECT.

We all got to bed around 4am. And 8:30 ring ring ring....

Awesome. They had deliveries and needed us to move the car....

As we were walking to the car we passed a tv that said "It's -15
outside!" Which is exactly what you want to hear when you are half
asleep, half dressed and all disheveled.... We moved the car (and the
guy in the truck actually said "Oh you guys don't need to move tha!t"
which made it even better.)

As we were walking back in... my eyes were watering. They usually do
if it is REALLY cold and I am not quite awake yet. It always looked
like I was crying on my way to class in Boston. But ummm.... in minus
15.... apparently your tears freeze to your face. Seriously. My tears
were FROZEN on my face. Rude awakening.

We got back in bed after our little adventure. Right as we were
falling asleep:

Ring Ring Ring. Wrong number.

Again.... about to fall asleep....

RING RING RING....

"Uh, this is Bob with conference services. We need you to move all of
your equiment out of here"

It was so sweet of the managers the night before to let us leave our
stuff there. But I guess no one told the morning manager. None of it
is really a big deal... it just seems that way early in the morning.
We eventually got all of our stuff out and just got on the road. If
you had asked me this morning... I probably would have given a
different answer, but it was definitely worth it to keep our stuff
from sitting in the cold. :) I am NOT a morning person. I can stay up
ALLLLL night long... but waking up? No way. Not my thing.

The moral of this story:
Don't cry in -15 weather.