On the Road with Sisters...

Hey again, I (Nicole) have been on the road with my sisters for a while now. I have been blessed to travel more than ever lately and have tons of stories about my sisters. We have had, at times, 10 hours in the car straight cooped up together!! That sounds pretty scary for most people, but it is really a blessing.

Here is how it goes usually. Natalie usually takes the back seat, and me and Nika usually are sitting on the middle row of seats. Well, Nika and I have a constant struggle to racing like little kids to the seat that doesn't have to pull down to let Natalie in the back seat. Not that we don't want Natalie with us ha, but 50 percent of the time at a gas stop, you will beat Natalie to the car (b/c she loves coffee and that is the real problem of all this fuss, who likes coffee anyways? huh why did it have to be invented?),and then you have to wait outside the car for her to get in while you have car hair and pillow wrinkles in your face. I remember once while we were on a long drive, Natalie decided to empty her coffee out Nika's window from the backseat. That was not a good thing, especially since we were driving fast down the road and the coffee decided it was going to splatter all over the side of our car. So we laughed all the way to our next stop. When we got out of our car, you would have thought there was 10 gallons of coffee in her glass b/c there was so much on the side of our car!! It was funny and all that, but we still made Natalie clean it up with our ration of baby wipes. That made it even funnier... 

The other day we were heading back from IL going to Nashville for a photoshoot. Before we headed out for the weekend of playing and taking pictures, we packed for the first time ever our whole entire jewelry case and two huge suitcases. We didn't need all our extra stuff for the gigs, just the pictures. We wanted to have everything "just in case", cause we are the "Queens of Just in Case". (That is really not a good title to have because you end up bringing everything in your house and not needing it. Then you force everyone to use what you brought trying to make yourself feel like it was worth bringing after all) We really did not have the room for the jewelry case, but we laid it on its side and realized that if you lay it on its side, it will come unlocked. Sooo... I had to shove pillows all around it and put our suitcases and guitar amp shoved against it so nothing would fall out. I pictured myself riding on top of the car like granny from the "Beverly Hillbillies" because our car was so crammed. (I imagine granny really liked sitting on top of the car getting a tan in the breeze driving down the interstate.) 

But anyways I always have fun on our adventures and look forward to every road trip because there is always something to tell and laugh about!!! 

-Nicole