Friday, June 25, 2010
Woke up at 5 AM and have to give a few wake up calls. I actually had Bill call me at 5 to make sure I was up! Went down to get a quick breakfast before leaving. Was surprised to see all of Aaron’s band already down there eating. I think of them stayed up all night. The bus came and picked us all up at 6:30. Bill is riding with us over to Switzerland and will go to the show tonight and then take a train back tomorrow.
Bus ride is suppose to be 5 hours, however after 3 hours the driver has to take a mandatory 30 min break, so instead of arriving at noon we got in a little closer to 1. Most of the band crashed out during the drive over. Once we started getting close to Interlaken the scenery was beautiful with the Alps in the background and lakes below. Mom met us at the hotel and had us all checked in and gave us our passes for the venue. Threw my stuff in my room and headed over to grab a quick bite to eat. Noticed the chocolate shop across the street and went in to get some truffles and candy to bring home to friends.
Took Aaron’s band over to do load in while mom went back to get Aaron for sound check. The festival is a big Trucker and Bike festival and reminds me a lot of a fair back home. After soundcheck we had a quick dinner at the hotel which was pretty bad… food was ok, but the waitress sucked! Oh well.. left to take all the Artists over for a Press Conference. Ernie, the guy that drives us around when we are in Zurich came over for the show and got to talk to him a little bit. Stayed at the venue with Bomshel while Mom went back to get Aarons guys. Bomshel did a great show.. Kristy climbed the lighting tress and played fiddle while “hanging off”.. mom got a great picture of this. Aaron went on next and the crowd loved him. Aaron does a lot of “trucking” songs so he was very well received. I walked out into the crowd to take a few pictures and ran into Thomas and his wife Sonja. Thomas is the promoter in Grindelwald that we work with. He has a country festival in Oct and last year I took Ray Scott over for it. Was able to talk to them for awhile when Aaron was signing autographs. Had to say good bye to Bill afterwards as I wouldn’t be able to see him tomorrow.
A little after midnight we all left to go back to the hotel but Aaron and his guys were starving so Mike found a restaurant that served until 2:30. Bingo! We were not far from the hotel so mom walked on back while Mike (our driver) found a parking spot and the guys went in to eat. A few of us that weren’t really hungry just sat outside and talked for an hour. Nothing like just sitting outside at 1 AM in Interlaken Switzerland. Got back to the hotel and I think I finally feel asleep around 3. Told mom I would meet her at 6:30 for breakfast and see her and Aaron off as they head to Italy for a show there tomorrow night. Yeah.. famous last words…

Saturday, June 26, 2010
My alarm went off at 6 and I called mom and just told her I would see her back in Nashville. Was just so tired! I didn’t even go up to the top of Jungfrau with Bomshel! Instead I slept in, got ready and then had some downtime with Susan Bellamy. We walked around and took some pics, got some more truffles and sat out at the park and just people watched and talked. It is a beautiful day! We have a VIP meet and greet with The Bellamy’s at 5 back at the venue. There are 300 people that we have to get pictures taken with in less than an hour.. however we pulled it off with 5 mins to spare! Have a little downtime at the hotel before having to go back for the show.
Got the band and Susan over to the venue then ran back to the hotel to get The Bellamy’s. The crowd was the biggest yet. The Bellamy’s have teamed up with Gola, who is a huge star here in Switzerland. They have a duet album coming out and are coming back in Dec for a small tour with him. Gola came out and did a few songs with them and the crowd went crazy! It was awesome. Funny thing.. had to walk the grounds from the stage to the promoter’s office and during that walk I passed a bunch of men lined up against a fence, with them all facing the fence. It took me a minute to figure it out but then I realized they were peeing into these huge “trough’s” of course right next to their line was the line of port of potties.. wish I could have gotten a picture of that! LOL.
It is 1:30 and am back at the hotel to pack, sleep for about 3 hours then leave for the airport with Bomshel. Have had a wonderful time, but missing my babies immensely Can’t wait to get back to them!!
Oh.. and I think the blister on my finger is finally gone.. reminisce of my time stuck in the bathroom in Germany and trying to work to lock!  

Sunday, June 27, 2010
My alarm didn’t go off!! Was suppose to wake up at 5:00 AM to leave at 6 for the airport. I shot out of bed at 10 till 6! Kristy with Bomshel called my room to see if they should go ahead and go and I told her “No” I would be there in 5 minutes. We left about 10 mins later than planned but arrived at the airport at the scheduled time. Bomshel flies home on US Air and I am on Delta so I had to make sure they were checked in before I went to DL. Thank God I am in Business Class and was able to use the “Priority” check in as the line was very long. It takes 25 mins to get to the International Terminal, you go through passport control, then a shuttle to E terminal then down 2 levels. Arrived at the gate in time for boarding. I was able to watch Valentines Day while they served dinner and then promptly crashed out for 5 hours, woke up when they started serving the pre landing snack. We still had about an hour and a half before landing so I started watching another movie.. which got terminated b/c of landing with 30 mins left in the movie.. will have to go rent it just to see then  ending.. oh well. Oh.. I was sitting on the aisle and some gentleman had the window seat. Didn’t talk much and he went to sleep also right after dinner and woke up as they were serving a snack. Of course he need to go to the bathroom, so I had to rearrange all my food, foot rest, etc for him to get by and has he stood up in the aisle, he was buttoning up his pants… hmmm.. nice!
No problems in Atlanta or on the flight back to Nashville. Dad and The Z’s met me at the airport and it was so good to see Zac and Zoe smiling and waving at me when they pulled up curbside to pick me up.
Oh.. and this lady at Four Corners in Germany gave me a really huge candy bar and had wrapped a wood nymph statue with it. They nymph is from the Black Forest there in Bavaria, Germany and it has special powers so now I have special powers J

Linz