Never Felt So Good

So Prague ended up being one of my favorite places on the tour. The buildings were wild, almost Alice and Wonderland-esqe, we walked around a castle, saw where archers used to make it rain from, went into a bad ass Cathedral, saw two wild clocks, found an absinthe bar, needless to say we made the rounds. On top of seeing all this cool stuff the show was one of my favorites of the year. The kids made it amazing and it was an awesome experience having kids come out to represent your band when your over 3,000 miles from home.
So after Prague we went to Austria, Germany for three days, and Italy for two to finish it up. Italy was good but we didn't have anytime to see anything cool besides the gloomy landscapes off the highway and we weren't in any awesome areas so we just hung out at the venues. Matt and I utilized our time wisely and won the FAA Cup in FIFA as Chelsea, it only took us about ten different times of starting the tournament to win and did we ever, the final game was a 6-0 beating of Fulham, count it. We are now better men.
The language barrier was in full effect when we were in Italy, luckily we had our good friend Matteo there to translate and teach us unforgivable phrases. However, I did manage to communicate how I wanted my haircut to an Italian-only speaking woman, and she nailed it! We ate a ton of pizza in Italy, it was in the festive spirit, and it was awesome.
We said farewell to our friend Tom who drove our asses around for the past month at around 6am in Milan, Italy. We will miss the frequent "FUCK ALL!" and "BLOODY WANKA!" from the front seat, as well as the FIFA coaching and overall football expertise. Hopefully one day we'll have the honor of showing him our country and how awesome American football is.
The plane ride home was rough. I've never been so happy to be in NYC than I was once we landed. We were coming in on the runway to land and we were dropping quicker than a blouse in a brothel, this was after 8 and a half hours of random gut wrenching drops shakes and shifts at 33,000 feet above the Atlantic...woof. Then our second plane, to Beantown, got canceled so after much confusion and no help from American Airlines we hopped in cabs en-route to La Guardia from JFK. Made the flight and quickly realized that I as going to accomplish flying in the smallest plane I've ever flown in, right after flying in the biggest plane I've ever been in. After much delay and weather warnings (that just caused the palms of our hands to become more sweaty and give us more time to contemplate our lives) we took off and actually had a decently smooth flight.

Finally, I can watch football again. Half mast just thinking about it.

Yours Truly,
Woody

From Prague With Love

I'm sitting downstairs at our hotel bar in Prague and Id have to say this city is quite amazing. We're gunna head out exploring tomorrow because the receptionist said that there was nothing worth seeing within an hour walk from our hotel. Its nice to be in a place where people are around. Last night we were in Lichtenstein (Germany aka Deustchland) and we played a Halloween show in a town that was the definition of "out there". We did have a solid football match or should I say soccer game against our friends in the band Hopes Die Last (Italy). I was able to land two headers off the foot of my friend Tom and then bask in the moment. Maybe I should have played in high school..haha oh well. The show was, well, lets just say an experience. The German language is intimidating on its own, now imagine goblins, witches, the doll from saw, and jack sparrow all hanging out at a teen center getting absolutely hammered and yelling in German...yea, thats how it was. Apparently that was the hang out of the town and the kids go there every evening to hang out and drink Becks. Becks is their favorite in Lichtenstein and they will let you know it.
Communication has been rough the past 4 days. Everyone I talked to said that Europe was hooked up when it came to WIFI and this was true, in the UK. Since we've been to mainland Europe we've ran into a bunch of connections that say they are working but do not, some venues which simply don't have any internet what-so-ever, and a place in Belgium that had three different internet connections but they refused to give us their password because they had funds that were accessible somehow through their connections. So sorry about the lack of posts the past couple of days.
Since my last post our first day in Germany...Trier to be exact, we have been to Paris, the Netherlands, Belgium, and twice more to Germany. The shows have been surprisingly good. Its very humbling to see kids know your lyrics and music when you are thousands of miles away from home.
Paris was awesome. Small venue but it was on a boat so that's understandable. Had the best croissant of my life and got to go to the Eiffel Tower at night and see it lit up as well as going light crazy at around !am..look at my facebook videos to know exactly what I'm talking about. Eindhoven was awesome...didnt make it to Amsterdam unfortunately but we got a good tast of Holland. Germany has been treating us very well as far as beer, food and crowd interaction goes, and Belgium was amazing (referring to the kids at the show). Im very much looking forward to getting home...the trip has been great and I have learned a lot but its getting to be about that time.
Yours Truly,
Woody

Welcome to Doichland (phoenetically correct)

So we finished up our UK tour last night with The Ghost Of A Thousand and We Are The Ocean. The tour was a great experience, we learned a lot and got to see how kids react to bands out here. We will miss The Ghost Of A Thousand a lot and we will see We Are The Ocean in a couple days in Paris, on a boat, yep the venue is on a boat in Paris, count it. We've been getting "cultured" aka getting into the swing of things over here buying food at supermarkets, eating McDonald's frequently, and trying candy bars and other junk food we've never heard of. They don't have sour patch kids here, they have gummies called Maynards, Quavers rule (they're like bigger puffed cheetos with more of a light cheese flavor), and millions are small chewy strawberry things the size of nerds. On other interesting notes they don't call periods used for punctuation periods, they call them full-stops. They don't call sidewalks sidewalks they refer to them as pavement, which is kind of amusing because the sidewalk and the road are made of the same material, so one could justify walking in the middle of the road by saying that it is the pavement as well. If there are zig-zag lines in defining the lanes of a road then its fair game to hit pedestrians because if the line is zig-zagged then they shouldnt be crossing there and it is their fault if they get hit. That's a good summation of our new cultured knowledge. More to come definitely because we just got to Germany, Paris tomorrow, the Netherlands after that, then continuing to make the rounds for another week and a half.
Yours truly,
Woody

PS: In England the last letter of the alphabet is not pronounced "Z" but in fact it is pronounced "Zed". Weird I know, apparently some parents who don't know who Jay-Z is call him Jay-Zed. Woof.

PPS: I'm sitting at the venue in Trier, Germany. Its a teen center type of deal with kids of all ages hanging out playing soccer, cards, and other games. Seems kind of like a day camp for kids while their parents are at work, most of the kids we're pretty young though. Its a little bit eerie walking around and knowing that 60-70 years ago it was a place used to raise Hitler's youth in training.