mattwertz

The last couple days have been amazing. We've added a new member to the family!

see it? it's our new GPS.  it talks to us in a british accent and tells us where to turn. I think sometimes he gets confused though and sends us driving in circles, or into people's driveways...or maybe 
it's just his way of having fun... either way, it's nice to have an international member of the van.

We played a killer show in Lawrence at the Granada Theatre.  The last time i was in the Granada was watching the Ben Folds Five play in the fall of '97.  One of the best shows i've ever seen, so it was a dream come true to play the stage of the Granada for myself.

We had to make the drive to Boulder the next day, which is like 10 hours, so we got a head start and slept in Hays, Ks for a few hours. The last time I stayed in Hays, Kansas, I was probably 10 years old and my family was stuck in a blizzard on our way out to Colorado to ski.  Ahh, the memories.

Boulder greeted us with 40 degree, sunny skies and the Flatirons in the background. the Fox was ready for the show, and so were we.

We had no idea what was coming...I drove up to the Fox after dinner to see THIS:

People just kept coming in! I really don't know where y'all came from, but i'm glad you did. Sell out number five, and the best one yet. This was also to be the last show with the Alternate Routes, and 
the last time of us performing 'Gonna Get Through' together. We made it an extra special one, and had Jon's tour manager Bob come out and play banjo.

I think that's 11 people on stage.  yep. 11.

and the view from the balcony...

beautiful.

I think Boys II Men said it best when they sang 'it's so hard to say  goodbye to yesterday'... and indeed it was, you gotta get the end of  tour group pic in, though.

See ya soon...

Wertz