Fun Runs Aren't Fun

It’s a logistics day from hell. Drive back to Melbourne, return Bubblewrap set to storage, return the hire van to Budget by midday, pick up my costume from Prahan just after midday, get Kapow! gear to Moorabin and bump in and tech from 4 -8pm It doesn’t sound too hard at the start of the day.

But then we face this:

• Half the city shut down for a fun run and traffic everywhere going achingly slowly, Budget Van is returned 40 minutes late.
• I forget my dog head costume from my bedroom in Brunswick and Luke and Christy have to turn around and get it.
• We forgot the sliding table for the set and I need to catch the tram home and bring the table on Wild Rides (my ute).
• Swanston street trams backed up to about 12 waiting because a tram broke down.
• My doggy dress costume isn’t in Prahan, it’s in Black Rock and we need to go get it.
• Kingston Arts Centre a little confused thinking we only have one hour to bump in.
• The Asking for Trouble business email (vital for organising the rest of the RAV tour and Edinburg) has been shut down because it’s too full.

I travel in a van, a ute, a truck, two trams and a train. Despite all, we are ready to bump in to Kingston at 4pm. We get everything set and finish a cue to cue for the techies by kickout at 8pm.

Now we’re at Luke’s dad’s place in east Bentleigh. Christy has been ditched off the phone by their email server in the States several times and has gone to bed. Luke is drawing the strategy screen and he keeps sighing and saying, ‘we’re almost there.”

strategy screen begins

Tomorrow, two shows in Kingston and the afternoon off. Maybe?