Flat

15.00 in the dressing room in Calgary. The venue has actually been changed and it's now the same as it was the last time we were here. Macewan Ballroom at the university campus area. This is a really nice venue with real dressing rooms and showers and everything. And female university students. Nice sight for sore eyes.

Yesterday in Edmonton was quite good. We played a good set as usual with some Rainbow and Accept riffs thrown in. The audience was quite nice as well. It was a Monday night so maybe not wild as some other audiences but still nice. And after the show I took a bath as usual. Toilet sink. It's not that bad when you get used to that.

Canada is a strange country. First of all there's nothing. The country is a flat piece of land with just nothing. Then suddenly there's a city in the middle of nowhere with skyscrapers and all. Everything is really clean as well which is of course really nice. The cities look busy and for the first look you'd think that "Hey, the venue's in the centre of the city, there must be lots of interesting stuff around here" and then you realize that there really isn't anything. Or maybe we're just stupid and can't find whatever there is.

The people we've met have all been really nice. Except for the idiot bikers. Everybody's been really friendly and open, in both Canada and USA. I've heard many times the sentence: "Oh, I love your accent! Where do you come from!" and when I say "From Finland" quite many of them start telling how they've been to Finland or they're going to go there or they have relatives living in Finland. Finland. No matter how hard you try, you can never escape.