Springfield to Ogdensburg

The last few days have flown by, but not without incidences! After Kalamazoo we headed to Springfield OH. This is Erin's hometown and her parents were wonderful enough to throw a reception for everyone back at the hotel. They had food and drinks for all and even a picture of the whole cast on the cake! That was very generous of them and we all truly appreciated it. Well after that is where things started to fall apart! The crew bus broke down when they were about to leave for Williamsport, so Clare had to arrange last minute flights for all of the crew so they could make it there in time. Then the truck carrying all of the sets and costumes was in an accident and a new truck had to come and get everything. Luckily the truckdriver wasn't hurt! Then Chris(Our Bill Sykes) came down with the stomach bug that a couple other castmembers had a couple of days before. The poor guy had to ride the whole day on the bus feeling incredibly sick :(
When we finally made it to Williamsport, the crew had done a great job getting everything set. Unfortunately they had no sleep what so ever. Chris was too sick to go on as Bill Sykes, so Will went on for him and did an amazing job!! There was rumor that Davy Jones(the original Artful Dodger) was going to come to that show, but as far as we know he was a noshow :( Colin was disappointed because he was looking forward to meeting him.
Today we were on the bus all day and got to Ogdensburg on time. Steve met us at the hotel and we went out to dinner with Sue, Mikey, John, and Quentin. From there we drove to the theatre. We were a little surprised that the theatre was actually located in a school and was extremely small, but it all worked out. We met up with Cici(Steve's sister), Jimmy(our nephew), and Aunt Carol and later Cindy and Emily Tyler made it. Emily has been in a few plays in Rochester with Colin. We really appreciated them coming all the way from Rochester, especially on a school night! It was so wonderful for Colin to have family and friends in the audience!
Tomorrow Steve is following us to Kingston Ontario and will watch the show there. We'll be sad when he has to leave on Thursday, but it will help knowing that we will be heading back home in a month :)