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Performance Highlights
- Played to sober, attentive, appreciative crowds.
- Stage diving for first time by Scott and the BlueGirls
- One hour lines for BlueGirls autographs and pictures
- Michael says he's not ready to play Sweet Home Alabama and we do anyways and it becomes a smash.
- Cartwheels by Dana and Mandy in Head Over Heels
- A band with 600 songs, playing the same song set (22 songs) the entire tour.
- Tim playing through pain with a severely cut hand.
- Michael getting huge ovations for his guitar work
Travel Highlights
- Met soldiers stationed all over the world
- Made many new friends
- Nikki made it thru all the flights!
- Experienced the fascinating Middle Eastern culture
- Visited countries we would not normally get to visit
- Experienced crime free countries due to strict and harsh penalties
- Smoked the "legal" fruit product known as "hubbly bubbly"
- Ate exotic Middle Eastern cuisine, including sheep's brains
- Rode Camels in Bahrain
- Mandy serving drinks on the flight home
- Tim sitting in on drums with club band "Popsycho" in Bahrain
- Seeing bombed out bunkers
- Scott falling off Camel in Bahrain
- Didn't lose any luggage or equipment!
- Scott turning over Dana & Nikki's mattress as prank, Dana finds $$
- Rode in hummer
- BlueGirls invited on stage at Bahrain gentlemen's club at Holiday Inn
- Phony 15th century artifacts on from tour guide in Bahrain ruins
- Nikki in the morning. A rare treat!
- Free phone calls home
- Cramming four people in airplane bathroom on flight home
- Mandy sitting in cockpit with pilot on flight home.
- Helicopter tour
- Given flight suits
- Given t-shirts
- Given medals
- Had more food than we could possibly eat (at no charge)
- Incredible shopping, especially the Gold Souks
- Playing basketball at base gyms
Travel Lowlights
- Dana getting sick, missing gig in Bahrain, playing with only 2 girls.
- No posters up in Bahrain or UAE.
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