Chicago Twin Gig!

Straight from a movie! Today was nothing less than a scene from a movie.

Last night we left Cincinnati and drove two hours North to our musician fiend's house and met his wife and daughter for the first time and stayed with them. Lots of crops and fields in Indianapolis. LOL

In the morning we got on the highway and called my twin sister to see what time and what exit we would meet. It worked like a charm. We met on exit 139 off of I65 at the infamous Flying J gas station. Quick potty break and souveniers, then we were all back on the road caravaning to Chicago. Our mission was to be at our kid's gig that started at 4pm at the Wonderworks Museum. We were doing great on time! Made one quick stop again for food and were just about to exit for downtown Chicago at 12:30am when all of a sudden my little boy NEEDED to go to the bathroom. Now, at this age, there is nothing we can do about #2...we HAD to stop some where fast! We exited. Both cars caravaning through Martin Luther King Blvd. Literally. We stopped at a gas station, bathroom was out of order. Then we stopped at Popeyes and they didn't have a public bathroom and finally we RAN to the KFC next door and all's well that ends well. It was funny!

We arrived at our hotel in downtown Chicago at exactly 1:45pm with plenty of time to freshen up, put on some make up and get the kids ready....when they tell us our rooms are not ready. REALLY? I mean, this is a nice hotel in downtown Chicago with plenty of space and rooms - AND we called ahead yesterday to confirm an early check in! No! Not available. So we were ushered upstairs, mind you, with my sister's two kids and husband and my two kids and husband all 8 of us, to the Spa area where we quickly got changed and made the best of it. Comical!

We raced down stairs to our vans and thought we had alotted enough time to get there. It was then 2:15pm and our gig didn't start until 4pm. We proceeded to hit every stop light, every detour and every wrong turn that we could. A bad thunder storm ripped through the city last night and left a lot of trees down and streets un driveable. Our GPS systems were turning on and off and confusing us even more, than helping! LOL!!! I finally broke down and called the Wonderworks museume at 3:30pm and said "I'm sorry buy we won't be there until 15 minutes til the show". They were super understanding and said they'd wait for us outside the front entrance. Meanwhile, several phone calls back and forth to my sister, we decided to just do an acoustic show! We made it to the Wonderworks by 3:48pm and started on time. No one knew the difference. We were able to improv a lot more with the unplugged new sounds of a couple songs and had a lot of fun mixing it up that way too. That's the beauty of kids shows, they are appreciative of anything you put effort into. Thank goodess the space is not too large and we were able to project! Ha!

We are now enjoying the weekend in Chicago together! Spent the night at the House of Blues restaurant and plan to see a concert in Millenium park tomorrow morning. Tons to do!
Next kids show will be on my own again in Chicago on Tuesday morning at 10:00am for the Goddard Private school. Should be fun!
Til then!