After a LONG day of travelling, we finally made it to Dayton. It has been a day of delays for all parties travelling, so that meant the main group travelling was 1.5 hours late arriving in Chicago and therefore we had to be fast-tracked through security if we were to make our connection to Dayton. It was compounded by the fact we needed to change terminals and the monorail isn’t working so we had to transfer via bus. Some of the airport staff were amazingly helpful whilst others didn’t seem to have a clue! So it was chaos!!!!
Anyway, we made it to the terminal with 15 minutes to boarding (a rather small plane!) and had a smooth quick flight to Dayton! It was nice and quiet when we arrived at the airport (I suspect the quiet before the storm this week), so we picked up our 3 minibuses and van and headed to the hotel.
Many of the members headed over to Walmart to stock up for supplies and then get some much-needed sleep (if jet lag allows!).
Tomorrow we pick up our new tarp, our poles (thank you McCormicks!), cart, sounds system (thanks to Centerville), props and spend the day with Michael Shapiro expanding our show to fit the bigger tarp. It's a super busy day getting all the pieces of the jigsaw in place - but with some much pre-organisation and help from our great US friends, fingers crossed it all goes well.
Today we rehearse 11-6pm and then head out to dinner at Olive Garden for a fun relaxing evening. Wednesday we head over to Kentucky for a day of rehearsal and then our preview show at Centerville high school in the evening. The schedule for that looks like this:
Good luck to you ALL. Have a great time
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