After the gig at The Uptown, complete with random people's uncles and crazy sound engineers, we headed back to the hotel in San Francisco that we were staying at.  We had a pretty sweet 2-bedroom suite that we managed to wrangle for $50 a night, thanks to Mike's aunt.  There, we had a fine repast of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with water (on tap!) and passed out. 

The next night was our gig at Cheer's Cocktails and Lounge, in Vacaville.  With a name like "cow town" we weren't expecting much out of Vacaville but we were pleasantly surprised by the relative cleanliness and lack of cows.  We did find out, however, that "cocktails and lounge" doesn't really paint an accurate picture of the place, which turned out to be a bar, with some tables.  Didn't really see a lounge.  Either way, when we got to the venue they immediately suspected we were under 21 (dammit) and marked us with huge red X's on the backs of our hands, and sentenced us to stand outside the back door while all the other bands played.  But besides that, we had a great experience there, the crowd was good and liked us, we sold some CDs, we made friends with the other bands and got some tips about venues and bookers from their members.  And we got paid!  How weird. 

But probably the highlight of the evening was our conversation with the guitarist from "Subject," a Sacramento-based band.  I'm sure it would have seemed slightly less humorous, and more genuinely sincere, if we had imbibed as much as he.  "When you're touring around like this," he said at the height of the conversation, "it really is, like... all about... everything.  Yeah... it's all about everything."  From that point onward The Stack tour of summer 2007 would be known as the "EVERYTHING TOUR," and we were sure to put emphasis on everything, wherever we went, because after all, that's what it's all about. 

That's all for now, stay tuned for the saga of the southbound drive to the city of angels, and the rest of the tour!