So we just finished our stop in DC and let me take a little time to explain our title for this blog. The two biggest differences from Iowa and DC are: in DC there are other gay people, which I was happy about. However, our crew was nowhere as nice as any of our crews in Iowa, including professional and non-professional, which no one was happy about.
To give the Venue as many words as it was worth: we only used 25% of our set because of random rules the enforced. We almost didn't get lunch between shows, until Dave our Fearless leader pointed out they were in no position to discuss the details of the contract, since they were months late turning it in. Finally, we gave two performances, one of which was to an audience of 20.
Now to the more exciting parts of our DC experience. On our day off we went site seeing and exploring around the city. We went to the Smithsonian and saw Dinosaurs, the underwhelming Hope Diamond, and learned about Theories of Evolution. It was a really awesome museum. While looking at a nice display of the dinosaurs, I assigned Dinos to all present. Terry was clearly the one being eaten, I was the one watching him be eaten, Colleen was the fierce T-Rex (because of her claw hands from the hot glue incident), Dave was the Stegosaurus, Tia was the Brontosaurus (because it's really tall), and Miranda was the little tiny one, also watching Terry be eaten
After a long museum experience Terry and I cam to the conclusion that we would be great museum partners. See we both enjoy running through the museum to make sure we see everything there is to see. Sometimes we will stop to read three or four things and sit to watch the three-minute movies on evolution or Pangea. However, the girls and Dave like to read things while walking in the museum. I don't know what that's about...
Next we wanted to find a nice snack place, like Starbucks because we were starting to get hangry. Hangry, is the period in which you are so hungry you because angry, it's in the dictionary, look it up people. So my good friend Nate who lives in the city gave us directions to a Starbuck. Miranda and I got a little confused by the map and got us lost. Time was not wasted because we took this picture with a statue made by Mark di Suvero. We wanted to climb on it more but feared being yelled at by the police. Suvero also made Victor's Lament the huge red statue in the middle of Mulenberg's Campus, note the similarities. Finally we settled down for snack time in a Bruegger's Bagles, because the Starbucks we were directed to was closed down. We sat in Bruegger's for quite a while discussing sex education form our younger years, how we first learned about it, which friends told us, what things confused us, and how our parent went about "the talk."
Latter I split off from the group to go meet my friend Nate and go to dinner. We were joined by his boyfriend Jay, and his three friends from work Ben, Mike, adn Don. Let me first say I love my tour mates, but sometimes I need a break from being around only straight people, especially after being in Iowa. So we had dinner in a Bookstore that also was a restaurant. Next we were off to the Haunted Forest. The Majority of our time was spent waiting to go into the haunted forest, which made us very cold. Finally, after freezing to death, we went in. It was a typical haunted house, where most of the fear came from anticipation of what would be next. There were two awkward parts of this event. One was, as Ben called it, Birth number two. You walked into all this fabric that was being blown into each other trying to fight your way out as if to ask the question: "am I being born again?" The next awkward experience was in a room with a million hanging manikins. There were so many, that I was sure I was being molested. The scariest parts were when the people with fake chainsaws came running at us. They may take the blades off, but the sound is still frightening. It was at that point that I grabbed Ben's hand and ran from them. One of them touched me with their chainsaws to which I responded "if you touch me with that again I will kick you in the balls." The other scary part, which was scary mostly for Ben, was this section with a ton of clowns. Ben was not Happy. Since he kindly protected me when I was afraid of the chainsaw people I felt it only fair to pay him the same courtesy. So I'm not going to get by writing this blog without saying the phrase "work it out." So I said it, that's all you get. I will leave it at the fact that Ben and I did not stop holding hands after leaving the forest. He was a really sweet guy, who made me feel very safe in the haunted forest. It was an amazing night, probably my favorite day of tour thus far. In conclusion I was extremely happy, because as I said earlier there are other gay people in DC, unlike Iowa.
~Dany
No comments:
Post a Comment