HEY! So we are officially the worst EVER at blogging on the road, although that is mainly due to the fact that we are having so much fun! I'm going to go ahead and say that this is going to be long, so kudos to you if you make it through it!

I think I left you last as we were headed to san diego, which turned out to be a great time. We played a small venue called Second Wind with a pretty cool band called watch us burn, who turned out to have some ties to anberlin. Anberlin and Taking Back Sunday were doing a show the following night in SD down the street from our hotel, so while the rest of us caught sunset at the beast, the riz hung out with the kids from watch us burn and christian from anberlin and caught part of the anberlin set, which he described as 'awesome.' lol...back to the beach part, the rest of the band, will and I biked, skated, ripsticked and walked to ocean beach, which turned out to be a LOT further than we thought! but after the arduous journey and a stop at a really sweet skate park for jeremy to rip on his 20 inch, we sat around on the beach with some friends and played a few tunes and drank a few beers. All in all, not sure of a better way to spend a beautiful afternoon. Thankfully, some of will's extended family had met us at the beach and gave us a ride back to our hotel when we met up with riz and a few of us headed back over to the anberlin show to hang out with the guys. After, we caught In and Out Burger and discovered Animal Fries, which are pretty incredible, btw. If you've never had them, I highly recommend it.

Saturday we shipped off to Long Beach, about a 2 hour drive up the beautiful california coast. We arrived at Clancy's, where we were trated like kings! Free food and drinks all day! After eating our faces off, Ajae, Jimisaad and I headed off to promote while the rest of the guys readied the stage. We played to great reception and ended up staying/partying with the barstaff, who quickly became lik...