Yes, we did work too.

Realized we don't have pics of the guys actually doing a show, so here you go. Yes, we worked too.

Membership night.


Fourth of July....check out the mountains in the back.

A few more pics to tie you over...

Standing at the edge of the world...


Rosie, Jerry, John, Mikey, Chris and Nick at the Ice Caps.


Check out these hotties at the 4th of July show.

Conquering Mt. Dundas

Mount Dundas, yes we climbed it!


View from the foot of the Mountain.


Chris and Mikey half way up.


View from the top of Mt.Dundas, yes that's the car down there.


This is just a preview of more pictures to come.

Back Home

Well, today was a long travel day and we are back home in good ole Texas. Hot, but not 100 degree hot, only 90 something...but HUMID...yuck!

I have to send a shout out to all the good people of Thule for another fun and successful trip. Again it was great seeing things we didn't see the last time we were up there. Thank you to Msgt. Dan Hampt for hauling all of us around Thule and being ever so patient with a bunch of musicians. Thanks to Rachel, Mike x 2, Jesper, DJ, Connie, Jeff, Chuck and the rest of the TOW club staff for all your help with EVERYTHING...especially exposing us to new drinks. Thanks to the folks at Det 3 (esp Sgt.Perez...I hope I have the rank correct), BMEWS (Major Gibson and the second shift guys and gal) and Marie and Allan from the Community Center for the tours of the facilities and Thule. Thank you to all the people who came out to the shows and checked out what the "new" wakingNorman was all about. "Tak" to all the Danish and Greenlandic contractors who keep Thule running. Thanks to the Security Forces for not stopping a bunch of drunk tourists at 1am walking back from the TOW club..really I tried to keep them quiet.

Congrats to Colonel Haven and Colonel Buck. Colonel Buck takes over for Colonel Haven at Thule Air Base and I am sure will have a good time with the people there. Also Congrats to Major Wedding and Major LaCasse. Mikey and I went to the Change of Command on Thursday as Major LaCasse took command of the 821st Support Squadron from Major Wedding. That was an interesting ceremony, Major Wedding kept his speech how I like them, short and sweet. Colonel Haven and Major Wedding were on the plane back with us. I will post a picture as they boarded the plane, everyone was out to say their last good-byes, pretty cool.

I would like to give a shout-out to all the people that I got to see again and meet for the first time. You are all great and props for spending a year (or more) up there. You can email me at rosie@wakingnorman.com if you want, definitely want to keep in touch. Anyway, I am tired and should be asleep by now, but once I get online it's addictive. I will be posting come cool pics too...even Mt.Dundas. It's a mountain that we all climbed our last night in Thule...yes all of us.

Rosie

Touring Greenland

Yesterday was our first tour trip. We went to the Ice Caps...sooooo out of shape =). We had to climb up this mountain and on the other side was complete whiteness. It was said that Camp Sentry was out there, which was an underground base but that didn't last too long with the snow and ice. It was amazing, we were truly on top of the world! Got some great shots that I will be posting when we get back. Then we went to P-Mountain and got another great view of Greenland. Finally ended our day at Det-3. There they track the satellites along with 7 other strategically positioned bases. They are able to download and transmit data, but all encrytped, which then gets sent to the main base in Colorado. Some cool stuff.

Last night we had an acoustic show in the casual bar of the TOW club. It started off slow, but by the end of the night, everyone was having a good time.

Today we went to D-Launch, an old missle site. We got to go down into the tunnels where they lived and launched missles back in the day. I wouldn't be surprised if that place was haunted. We are hanging at the Community Center right now before we head out to BMEWS. Mikey, Nick and I did it last time, but we didn't get to see much, this time we get to see the only place where three glaciers meet. We also get to go on top of the satellites and take some cool pictures. Later we hope to climb Dundas Mountain.

Well, that's all for now. Hello to everyone back home!

Rosie

2 down 2 to go

Two shows down and two more to go. The first one was okay. We were having a few technical issues, but last night's show rocked! Everyone likes the new sound. We were a little worried because there are still a few people here who have heard us before, but even those folks enjoyed the "new" guys.

Yesterday was fun. The TOW (Top of the World) club had membership night last night. They had all sorts of fun summer-like type of stuff going on. The ballroom had a jungle/luau theme to it. Nick and I went to the Pavillion and enjoyed some of Art's barbeque. That man has been here for 27 years. Nick played a little dominoes with Red Velvet (BD), George, Lonnie and some other guys. When we got to the club they had a scavenger hunt and at the end, the teams had to make shots. It was Jerry, Nick, John, Chris and Mikey's call on who won the scavenger hunt by determining who made the best shots. I think Colonel Haven's team won that won. Nick and Mikey participated in the Limbo contest. Mikey and one of the guys up here were the last two. They were competing for a 19" TV/DVD/VCR combo thing. Unfortunately Mikey lost, wonder how we would have transported that thing back.

Today is the Fourth of July celebration. The guys are playing outside. I think it's 40 degrees today. They were supposed to have the Polar Bear Swim earlier, but the bay was frozen over so they cancelled that. The water temp is only 29 degrees! No thank you! They have a softball tournament by the Community Center and we we play around 5:00, the guys are outside setting up as I type.

Tomorrow we start one of our many tours around the area. We are going to the Ice Caps then Det 3. Wednesday we go back to BMEWS and sometime we will head out to Dundas Village and hopefully get to climb Mt.Dundas.

That's the update for now. Going outside to check on the guys.

Rosie

Is it 12am or 12pm?

We have arrived. It's crazy....we were walking around base at midnight and it's as bright as if it were 12 noon. Things are going well. The weather is beautiful. 40 degrees isn't so bad with the sun. It's cool to actually see things and the base is so much smaller in the light. What took us 5-10 minutes to get to last time, now only takes us 2. There is definitely a different vibe with the daylight. You can see more smiling faces. They have a few tours planned for us which we are excited about including Dundas Village where the Inuits live, back to BMEWS, Det 3, and some other places. That'll all happen next week. We were hoping to explore the ice caves but I guess the road to there is under water with all the snow melting. I hope it snows while we are here. They actually had a snow storm a couple of weeks ago. Snow in the middle of June...crazy?!

The guys are rehearsing right now. I'm in the TOW club's office checking email. Our first show is tomorrow night. There is a buzz over us being back. Everyone is interested in hearing the new sound. Of course, the big question is over Troy, he must have made some impression the last time we were here ;-). But the guys are ready to bring the ROCK! There are alot of events going on this weekend/week so they are busy all over the base. They had a change of command yesterday, a couple of other high ranking officers are leaving also so they've had a few going away parties. It's the 4th weekend, they have a membership appreciation party at the club here on Sunday so they are keeping busy.

Anyway, I'm going to go check on the guys and give Rachel back her computer. Will post more again later.

Rosie

One the Road Again...

Well, we are on the road again for AFE. Right now we are in Baltimore waiting for our flight to Thule. It's midnight. We don't board until 1am, not bad, we've kept ourselves entertained. It's been an interesting day to say the least. Check in was a breeze....we're old pro's being our third time. Pete you will be happy to know we saved ALOT on MCO's. Anyway, one band member left his bag at Security. Not until after we ate lunch did he realize he was missing his bag. Then one other band member lost his boarding pass. Then our flight got delayed and we waited on the runway for about a half hour. Finally took off. They showed Hitch on the plane. We get to Baltimore and we are missing part of John's drum kit. They must have forgotten to put it on the plane at DFW. Luckily it made the next flight here and we now have it. So now we sit and wait. We must enjoy the darkness because for the next week all we will see is daylight. Will update you more later.

- Rosie