New Year's

Hey there, race fans!! Isaac's back, comin' at cha live one more time here. Let me start off by saying Happy New Years to all of you. We were hired by the Isle of Caprice, a very nice hotel/casino Riverboat in Bettendorf, Iowa. The room we played to had a state of the art, computer controlled lighting system, and it was decked out with a tiki-bar bamboo hut. We didn't get to put the mural into the show, but it still was a good time. We played two 1-hour shows instead of our normal 2-hour show. During one of the normal, two hours shows, time seems to go by quickly. But, these 1-hour shows really fly by!

During the hour in between the two shows, I took a stroll through the casino floor. I was all smiles until I saw the Bears game of the big screen TV. I'm a huge Bears fan, in case you didn't know. It was in the third quarter and they were losing by 20 points. I didn't have much time to grieve. After I cried out loud for a moment or two, it was back to the tiki bar to get ready for the second show.

The crowd was great, Al was having fun, and the Trilogy went over really well. My brother Jordan, his girlfriend Sarah, and my girlfriend Karen drove up for the second show. It being New Years and all, the four of us went to a little neighborhood bar across the street afterwards. We had been hauling out equipment at the stroke of midnight, so we decided to celebrate an hour later. We were treated to some unexpectedly good kareoke singers. This woman surprised us all with her Amy Lee impression, singing "Wake Me Up". And a man serenated us to David Allen Coe's "The Rodeo Song", witch is always a treat. Jordan knew every word!

All in all, it was one of the most fun times I've had in a long, long time. The Isle of Caprice is great, and I can't wait to go back.