Wollongong Here We Come!

Our anniversary was a blast. We found this amazing breakfast place called The Wooden Shoe (The Dutch) on Cambie Street in Vancouver. Nothing like a good stick to your ribs breakfast to start you off. Relaxing day, enjoying the little things that over half the people in the world do not have access to. Gotta stay thankful for the little things.

Tonight we take Zion on his first plane trip. We're both a little nervous about the little guy handling take-off and landing but the amount of advice we have from other parents has been both comforting and amusing. Everything from Jack Daniels to Tylenol to breast feeding has been thrown our way to keep his ears from popping. Jack Daniels. For a baby?

Got a fifteen hour flight ahead of us so we're loaded up with DVD's and a good book. My wife is reading the Pursuit of Happyness, I'm reading The Pixar Touch and for the third time I'll be reading the Four Hour Work Week.

When we arrive in Australia we definitely hit the ground running, a few days off to decompress are going to be very welcome. On trips like this I actually have to get in the mindset before I leave. In other words mentally I left for Australia yesterday. Getting in the mental space or the zone to do the show isn't an easy task so it definitely takes some build-up. Especially when it's fourteen cities. This will be the longest run of Basic Training ever done and I'm really impressed with the marketing efforts that Tina Walsberger and her team have put together. It never fails to amaze me when people spend the minimum on marketing and wonder why the ticket sales suck. Simon Hinton and his gang in Australia have obviously done their homework and it's great to be working with them. Even if the show doesn't sell a single ticket it means infinitely more to me that they put it all on the line and in a professional manner. Effort trumps statistics any time, any day. The economy can only be an excuse for so long and my life has taught me that what you give is what you get. It makes my skin crawl to travel the world and see what's really going on and to realize how much it differs from what the 'news' tells us.

After the Australia tour I'll be working on some exciting television gigs. That's a flaky world so best believe I will make something happen.

Had some great conversations with a well known director about a new one man show I'm hoping to perform in Edinburgh in 2010...more to come on that later. Leavin...on a jet plane...

Here's to peanuts and pretzels!

Currency

Postings have been less frequent - family in town to visit Zion and then the news that our landlords were selling the apartment we lived in for two years. Which isn't a problem except for the fact that they decided to tell us right before we leave for Australia. In addition to packing for a 2 month fourteen city tour we also had to put all of our belongings in storage. We could not have done it without our friends and we are so thankful for their help and love. They're the kind of currency that lasts a lifetime.

Now we're staying at a hotel near the Vancouver airport for two days. This allows us to decompress and figure out if we forgot
anything before we leave. Packing for a baby boy is quite the adventure but he keeps things interesting.

Today is our three year wedding anniversary so I better get off this laptop. More postings, more often - stay tuned! We leave for Australia tomorrow.