onto Michigan

Today we woke up in Clyde, OH and shared a free continental breakfast at the hotel. I'm not much of a complainer but this was HANDS DOWN the weakest continental breakfast I have ever experienced. It's okay though, it didn't hamper the tour/morning in any manner. We packed our stuff up and headed towards Flint, MI looking for interesting places to stop on the way (we were about 2 hours away and need to kill about 9).

We stopped at Best Buy near Toledo for a while to buy Avi the camcorder of his dreams. We also just walked around and watch John Mayer's DVD on all the giant TVs.

After another hour or so on the road again (and now into Michigan) we stopped at Outdoors Superstore Cabela's one of John's fond childhood memories...

It was totally RIDICULOUS. Next to the fishing rods there was a legit room of aquariums with giant cat fish and carp. A total crossbreed between EMS/REI (pick your poison), PGH zoo/aquarium and the Museum of Natural History...This wasn't even the best part....

In the center of the superstore (about the square footage of the first 3 floors of the Cathedral of Learning to give you an accurate picture of the shear SIZE of this place) was an obnoxiously large mountain display. The "mountain" (stretching about 3-4 all the way up to the ceiling) had a fake but true to life version of all kinds of animals you (if you were a burly michigan hunter) might want to mount on your wall (which you could do with the help of all of this store's guns, ammunition, camo-gear, and "head mounting" gear.

Animals included: bison, elk (remember this for later), polar bears, dear, wolves, beavers, raccoons etc. (Max also just reminded me that, "All of them were confrontational") The mountain scene had these fake animals fighting all the way up the sides of the cliff. Cougars viciously attacking rams and a moose on the ground being attacked by wolves and polar bears. It was almost like a natural history museum except the museum would have had a true to life display with blood and guts behind glass. Cabela's was blood free and classy.

Maybe we'll put some pictures up to justify the magnificence and absurdity of this place when we get some better internet access.

To top it all off, Max, John and Cory ate big game sandwiches (Cory and John had Elk on Wheat and Max had Ostrich....healthy..)

But, after about 2 hours in the store we had seen enough of the central Michigan hunter's Mecca and decided to load back into the van.

Now we're in Flint. And we're still 4 hours early for our set. And a scary man with blue eyes asked us for 35 cents and we gave him a Chewy bar instead.

Show tonight sounds like it will be a good one, we're teaming up with local Flint band, "Taste This" and we hear the bar is the hot spot about town!

We'll check back later and tell you how it goes!