I scream, Uke scream...

So, yeah, more stories from the Uke Expo.

Drove 10 hours on Friday and got to the Poconos around 4pm. Found myself a parking spot/campsite and had about an hour and a half to have dinner with my friend Robert before the festivities began. 5:30 was the first jam session/sing along of the weekend and it was great to see people of all ages playing and singing together. I love it when a twelve year old kid knows all the words to "Ida, sweet as apple cider", and he's singing it right next to someone in their eighties. Always makes me smile. Also, it was funny to see octegenerians singing the theme from SpongeBob Squarepants.

Onward...
The guys at the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum asked me to record all the concerts for them which was cool except that I was stuck in the sound booth which also happened to be the place that the hotel staff came to smoke. So I ended up with a splitting headache by the end of the concert on Friday night. Not to mention that it was storming like crazy outside. Like, Noah's Ark kind of crazy. Which would have been fine had I not been sleeping in my car. So, moral of the story; If you have a migraine and there's a thunderstorm, you might want to rethink the sleeping in the car thing. Second night was better. No headache, but the temperature did drop in to the forties at night so I was butt cold.

For all the adversity, it was still worth it. The workshops I went to were great, the folks I met were really nice, and now I'm inspired to practice even more.