Band Tour 2008

Well guys, tour this year was basically AWESOME!! And I took several photos (not enough, now that I realize it), so here's the summary of our 5 day trip! My photos don't even do it justice! Ahhhh. . . .the memories.

Day 1:
This was what our bus sort of looked like at the beginning.














Our first "stop" was at the Bonneville Salt Flatts, totally unexpected to me. This is Tiana and Carly, and then lovely, unshaven me licking (pretending) the salt.




























And yet another fine addition to
my funny sign collection: the Foot Wash.



































When we got to the hotel, we played a rousing game of
Settlers of Catan, which involved plenty of 12's, 2's, and 6's. Hahahahaha.

Day 2:
Not too much happened here, just more driving, and we made a few stops, but nothing that I didn't take any significant photos of. Jason starts a lot of his "China" stuff this day, which ended up being really hilarious.

Day 3:
This was one of the major highlights of the trip our festival playing and riding rides at the Great American Theme Park. It was this day that I learned my new found love for "spinney rides." Thank you peer pressure :P

Yay! for fun walking! :D

One of the coolest rides EVER! It swung like a pendulum and twisted like a carousel . . . it was my first "spinney ride" *giggles

Suzy getting anxious waiting in line for the Invertigo. Haha, not really.

More line waiting . . .

This is Melissa, getting excited to ride the Demon, which you will now experience because I was gracious enough to ride it again and take film. . . hehehe.

This sign was the political way of saying: "If you're fat, you can't ride this ride."

Happiness of taking the whole house of trophies. . .
My own personal rapture. . . she's so precious to me now. :)

This swinging boat ride went ALL THE WAY OVER. Suz and I were laughing like maniacs, like the maniacs we really are.

Survivor: The Ride, one of my new favorites, yet another spinney. :D

I've decided I'll eventually need to do a "The Many Face of McKay Blog/Poster" Combination. . . any takers?

See above

Day 4:
Was a great day, started out by going to Sacrament Meeting, where we surprised several old people, and probably scared the Priests. Then we went to the Golden Gate Bridge, and to one of my new favorites: The Exploritorium Museum. It was the mother of ALL Museums, and I wish Id'a taken 1000 more pictures! I'll go back there one day!

Yet another sign. . . . hehe

The entrance to the museum.

Some random girl playing with the bubble stuff that I wanted to play with but never got to! *throws a tantrum *

Ted, playing with little kids and bubbles. . . how fun!

I hung out with Kym when we were in the eye exhibits, there was some pretty neat stuff, like the pupil tracker and eye-blood-seer-thingy.

Tiana, trying to talk and listen to a joke at the same time. It didn't work. For either of us.

Grody bacteria art :P EWWWW!!!

That night, we ate at ChinaTown (I'm too lazy to put pictures up, plus I didn't take very many) but we saw this sign advertising Holly's new business:

Then we rode the bus home, and had a very long interesting conversation in the hotel, after all the games of Settlers had been played. *wink

Day 5:
Was spent at Alcatraz/ the Fisherman's Wharf, and on the Dinner/Dance Cruise. I only took photos at Alcatraz, because I didn't want to worry about my camera at the dance. But it was awesome, kind of like the band's own Mimi-MORP, since we were on tour during actual MORP. I think we had just as much fun . .. ;)

More silly signs.

Melinda at Alcatraz

The typical cell at Alcatraz, except for the huge ESCAPE hole dug out. Smart men, smart men.

A cool seagull, man!

Day 6:Included driving home, and eating breakfast . . . so I didn't take any photos. . .

Anyways! It was awesome! Hope you enjoyed the photos. Maybe I'll post more later, but most likely not. If you want to see EVERYTHING I took while on tour, come talk to me, I'll probably put everything on my iPod.

Thanks for reading!