The past week has been interesting to say the least. We've played at an anarchist party with a bunch of punk kids, driven around 2000 miles to hang out with the Alabama gals to sing songs, shoot guns and play with snakes. Minnesota was a blast, but I think I've got to catch you guys up a bit... we chilled out in Thomas for an extra day and then drove to some town in Indiana, slept in the van and then drove on to Chicago. It is well and truely summer here in the states, and Chicago put on an amazing day for us. We wandered around the park, along the lakeside and got a little thirsty with all the activity, so we wandered into the yacht club and talked the lady at the front desk into letting us into the club as reciprical members of the Jebel Ali Sailing Club - Must've had something to do with the swager coz they let us in and we met some cool people who we had lunch and a few drinks with before making our way into the student part of town to experience some famous Chicago deep dish pizza and then settle in for another night in the van. Then we drove all the way to Winona, found the mississippi river and jumped on in for a swim/shower which was a welcome detour in an otherwise stinking hot day... we then went on up to the lodge where we met a bunch of the guys who were also involved in the gig, they call themselves "crusties" which may refer to the lack of bathing (which wasn't much better on our end funnily enough) and possibly the chosen lifestyle of a poor gypsy. These guys based their lives of Jack Kerouaks "On the road" and were all living it for real. We also met a fellow aussie, Chris who had joined the Crusties and was playing a few obnoxious punk songs early in the gig. But they were a cool crew who were really into music and gave us loads of respect which was nice, by the end of the night we had a bunch of drunk, dreadlocked anarchists stomping down the lodge and so we made a quiet getaway and spent another night in the van. The next 2 days were pretty uneventfull... oh, except for the "throwed rolls"... Julz and I noticed a billboard advertising throwed rolls and were so intrigued that we had to stop and check it out. It turns out that they were in fact exactly what they said... hot bread rolls that get thrown around the restuarant to the most coordinated diners! It was loads of fun, we ate far to much but giggled the whole time, and then finally made it all the way to Mobile, Alabama in the Gulf Coast. We stayed with Kristy Lee who is one of the most incredible singers I've ever had the pleasure of listening to... truely incredible! and the Alabama crew thought it was well time we popped our gun tokin cherries so hit us up with some incredibly scary weapons and made us shoot them. We shot 3 different kinds of hand guns, and also managed to find time to play with the gun enthusiats pet snake, Jake. So now I'm sitting in a motel in Huntsville, AL after hanging out with Kristy Lee and Missy at a very cool charity gig. Tomorrow we are headed back down south to Tallahassee FL to play some more music and then onward from there...So thats about it... keep on rockin and I'll try get some new video footafe from all our adventures up on the website real soon. Much love, L Xx