We finally leave Chicago today, after something like 10 days in the Illinois area. We’d actually just started to go stir crazy the night before leaving, so the timing was just right.

We’d encountered a few road tolls coming into Chicago and had been getting frustrated, but it was nothing like today! In one days drive from Chicago to Bowling Green, Ohio…we paid over $17US in road tolls. Stink.

Did you catch the name of that town? Yip…we were playing in a town called Bowling Green! Stoked.

We were playing another house party, this one at a place called castle Sunshine. We turn up late afternoon to another student town, reminiscent of Macomb. The house next door to Castle Sunshine had a beer bong lying on its roof. We knew that was a good sign.

The room we were playing in was probably the smallest venue I’ve ever seen, even smaller then Al’s place in Wanganui. Even for a lounge, this was small. Looked like you could squeeze in around 30-40 people…so we were amped, as it looked like it was gonna be heaps of fun. I have some photos, but still need to upload them…check back in a coupla days.

Before the show we head out into town and discover Rally’s. Our favourite fast food joint to date. Their $1 burgers rule.

The show was as awesome as we expected with the whole house being packed, those who couldn’t fit in the room were lined up the stairway and crammed in the kitchen. We were playing with a band called Self Evident who have done quite a bit of touring, so a good crowd turned up. Funnily enough a bloke came to the show who had bought the Over the Atlantic album a few months earlier but had no idea they were playing tonight. Quite surreal running into a fan in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Most rockstar moment of the tour tonight as at the end of the set, Rhys went to thank everyone for coming and then forgot the name of the town we were in!! A moment straight out of Spinal Tap, “Thank you so much……uh….um….what was the name of this town again?”

How could you forget the name “Bowling Green?!”

After the show we hung out at the house and set up to sleep on the rancid floor that we’d just finished partying on.

Sweet sweet accom

Before heading to sleep we hang out in one of the flatmates room with some people left over from the show, he plays us “Raging Sharks”,http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi815661337/ perhaps the worst film ever made, I thought he was exaggerating, as, well I have seen some bad movies…but yeah, this was frankly terrible. So much stock footage was used, you saw the same shots repeated over and over, it was so budget, and the acting so awful..you gotta check out the trailer. Something you can’t see from the trailer is the aliens! The premise of the film is amazing…two alien craft collide in space and they release some alien material which falls into the ocean and makes the sharks go crazy…then at the end of the movie in what is simply the greatest scene known to man, the Aliens return to earth to collect the alien substance again.

The film is awful (aside from the opening and finishing sequences). Beware to all those who attempt to watch it.