Let's Take Our Love To Mexico...

We can see Mexico!!!! Seriously - the buildings right across the way are in Mexico. It's pretty sweet. The people here in South Texas, and I mean REALLY South Texas, have so much pride for this area. They have been unbelievably welcoming to the guys and me, and they have gone WAAAAY above and beyond to help us and put on a great event tonight.

Texas is always great because it is this unique cultural pocket in the world that has a feverish excitement for INDEPENDENT country music. And even though everyone has always said it is impossible for girls to break into the Texas market... and most Texans hate "Nashville" (as in the kind of country music that comes out of Nashville) I haven't felt that way AT ALL!!! I have felt nothing but love from Texas!!! And I have given nothing but love back, which I will continue to do over and over again!

And coming this far south has been so much fun for us. The students at UT Brownsville are AWESOMESAUCE!

They were champions with load in and load out - we couldn't pack up fast enough after the show cause they had everything on the elevator so quickly!

And the show.... oh my lord.... so many cameras and cell phones a flip cams. These kids rushed the front of the stage EARLY in the set and gave us SOOO much energy. The guys and I had a GREAT show because the audience was so great. One girl, Roxy, found me before the show because she came to the show last night at UT Pan Am AND came tonight!! That rocked my world. Tonight was the kind of night we live for as musicians. We've already had quite a few of those on this trip, too - which is just incredible!

Let's keep this ball rolling! :)

The Sigma Psi Delta girls!


Fei!!! Even though we are in America, and can see the border of Mexico, Fei is here from China! :) (It was his first country concert)


The awesome student group that put this whole thing together!!


Signing the chucks!


My first Belt signage!


They found us loading the trailer after they went back and got their white chucks! She had us all sign both of them!


The GIANT basket of Mexican Goodies they gave us!


Us devouring the giant basket of Mexican goodies in the hotel room!


And we even got a private tour of the school at the end of the night which was REALLY cool. They have a gorgeous campus and really awesome facilities. It makes it so much more personal for us to really get to see the campus like that. And this campus looks more like a luxury resort than a college! It's so beautiful!

Another wonderful night down. :)

Do I really have to go do normal people stuff like pay bills right now? ;) Night y'all.

Peace. Love. Fiddle.
~natalie

Poor Chicken

Animals I saw today on the side of the road:
Skunk
Squirrel
Bird
Armadillo
Possum
and... a first.... a Chicken. Yup a chicken. Hmmm... why DO you think he was crossing the road?

Also... Animals in the "still living" department: a pack of dogs - mamma and pups
And the most majestic horse running in a field through the snow... looked like a movie scene.

Animals in the gas station?


Yup.

Hootie quote of the day:
We went to a Mexican restaurant across the street from our hotel. Hootie sat down at the table and said, "That bathroom?? Well.... I felt like my nose just tried to eat an orange."

We have so much fun. But when Hootie gets out of line....


We left Conway, Arkansas this morning and our plan was to drive to Topeka, Ks. Within 2 hours the temperature had dropped 20 degrees and it started snowing. Not a crazy snow... but a steady one. We passed 3 wrecks... and had just decided to start calling hotels to get out of it... and then we saw the traffic up ahead was STOPPED. We could see a semi and a car on fire. It was awful... we sat there for over an hour... just watching ER vehicle after ER vehicle making it's way to the accident. They interviewed a lot of people on the news later and they were all talking about how they were going so slow, but still hitting patches of ice and sliding off the road. We are so lucky to have a couple of days to get to our next show... we are taking full advantage and playing it safe. Y'all. Be careful out there. The roads didn't even look slick, but they were. Said a lot of prayers today....

We need to get all the way to Topeka tomorrow, though. We have an early morning on Monday - we have a radio interview on 94.5 WIBW, a tv show performance, and a show at Washburn University. It's gonna be a VERY good day :) I am already excited.

Peace, Love, Fiddle, and Staying Safe,
~natalie