the very hush hush.

good times.

my friend drew says, "good times" alot. these last few weeks have definetly deserved the phrase. i'm in winnipeg right now, and i've had the pleasure of seeing so many good people while i've been here. anyways, the whole thing started in alberta:

medicine hat was an interesting day. we were all a little tired from the trip, but by the time we finished walking around superstore, looking for a healthy meal, we all seemed to be back in good spirits. we settled on carrots and ranch dip/pumpkin pie/bread/choclate milk...delicious. so we sat outside of the superstore, and enjoyed a very warm day. we walked over to the mall, checked out hmv, picked up an essential cheap tv show box set on dvd, and were off to the venue. if there's one thing to say about medicine hat, it's that the kids that go to shows are really nice kids. they may not be a huge fan of your music, but man, they're so nice. we met a super nice christian kid named Travis, who makes music as "7th Ave." him and his friends were so welcoming and nice to us, that they made us feel right at home. we played horrendus that night. there were only two outlets in the whole venue, and i'm pretty sure they weren't grounded correctly. either way, i had to plug my guitar into the PA system, which sounded like utter trash. because of our lame technical issues we only played four or five songs. again, the kids were nothing but kind to us. as we packed up our gear, lots of people came and talked with us, and made us feel a bit better about our crappy preformance. that night we also met our new friends in Adverse Vital Signs. easily some of the nicest guys we've played with. we were stoked that we would get to play three nights in a row with good guys.

so after the show we made the late night trek to swift current, home of our favourite person in the whole world, Bobby! we had all met bob at briercrest, and we soon became total bff. anyways, that night as the rest of the guys slept, bobby, brett (bobby's roomate) and i stayed up laughing at myspace bulletins, and having sweet webcam conversations with girls in bc.

we slept in nice and late the next morning, then headed to mcdonalds after some quality television watching. (roger lodge is a king among men). we said our goodbyes with bobbykins, and were off to the next show in moose jaw. we were all pretty stoked about playing in moose jaw, seeing as we've always had fun experiences playing there. it was raining pretty hard that day, but it didn't seem to get our spirits down. we hauled in all our gear, and then sat in the mall for a few. the cdplus didn't sell any album leaf, but they did have a ben gibbard/andrew kenny split ep, that i didn't buy for some reason. anyways, we headed back to the venue to find out that our friend Brad wasn't aloud to come to the show, because his parents thought it would be too late on a school night. it sucks because i know he wanted to see us play pretty bad. thankfully we'll be back at the end of june, and he'll be able to make it then. anyways, that night was like a reunion. we saw so many old friends, that it made us realize pretty quickly why we moved back to the praries. our set was MUCH better that night, opposed to in Med Hat. i was blown away at how many kids were singing along, and rocking out. i love how not only did we get to have a great night playing music, but we got to do it with so many friends. two of our friends came from the camp they were working at, and they offered to have us over at the camp for night. of course we agreed (we're actually leading worship at the camp later in the summer), and off we went. we kept rob awake on the drive by talking about the band. andy kept saying "he didn't give a rat's ass", but none of us really know what that means.

we made it to the camp safe and sound, and that morning we (andy and i) slept in, which was followed by some serious "lost" watching. our friend Mark had never seen any episodes, so we watched the first two episodes. (andy and rob are now both getting into it. i love it!) anyways, we spent the rest of the afternoon drinking coffee and playing chess. watching Karl and Drew play chess was like the funniest thing i've ever seen. somehow our imaginations made a game of chess into some crazy battle, war thing. don't even ask. andy and i also messed up a pot of coffee. which lead to a conversation my friend Kim and I had, but that's a whole other story.

so we left from camp, to assiniboia, where we were playing that night. it was great seeing another old briercrest friend Aaron. he was kind of enough to not only let us play, but he let us crash on his floor that night AND his parents made us pancakes the next morning! assiniboia was a super fun show, with a good turnout. the stage was really high though. i felt so blessed to be able to look into the crowd and see people singing along. such a change from just a year, where no one knew or wanted to know us. praise the Lord! after the show we went to the Assiniboia Relay for Life. i guess people walk around their civic center, raising money for cancer research (i think? correct me if i'm wrong). anyways, our friend Grayson has a new band, and they were playing a set. they're all really young, but man, they have some CRAZY potential. they didn't have a name, so drew came up with "The History" for them. so if you ever hear about a really rad band out of Gravelbourg called The History, make sure you check them out.

it's really late, so i'll finish this lovely story later. i'll post some pics as soon as i can too!

i love you! and chances are i really miss you, and can't wait to see you again.

Jamison.