WE'RE HERE!!!!!

Well, we finally made it. After getting Christians checked baggage which was not an issue so I cant complain too much :) we proceeded on to the registration transportation table in the airport where we checked and waited for the van. Chevy Express 15 Passenger, with 8 people and a lot of luggage. It was about an hour and a half drive from the airport to the campus. After we got all checked in and received our tags and swipy card :) we went up to the beautifully air-conditioned room and dropped our stuff. Then we walked over to the assembly hall which is a short walk from our room. Our swipy card can get us into any building and our staff tag means we can eat at any dining hall at any time :) We went into the assembly hall where we were meeted with a whole bunch of union people hanging lights and trussing and nailing down staging... after a while we walked around to find the sound people. We met Berry and some other guy whose name I cant remember... They are AWESOME guys!!! after talking to them for more than an hour we found out alot about the ways the shows are run and I finaly got the list of equipment :) JBL VERTEC Arrays, VRX Arrays for side fills and Crown amps and a Yamaha M7CL Digital Console :) I am soooooooooooo excited!!!! So anyway, we kinda found out that we are the first two sound people here and we just have some time to hang out and help the union guys with the lights if we want which of course we will do. The truck with the Video and Audio stuff should get in around 9pm tonight so we will unload it and then go to sleep so we can get up and start helping the union guys with rigging and hanging in the morning. So right now thats the plan, both me and Christian are starving, so we're going to try to find something to eat and then we are off to help the union people.

-Patrick

P.S. Ill try to post some pictures.