A promising Northwest Canada tour was reduced, rapidly, to a three date vacation including shows in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. We played our Edmonton show, had a good time with some friends and prepped for the road. We had a lot to look forward to, despite our lack of dates. Calgary was our first out-of-town show and we'd heard a lot of great buzz on various social networking sites regarding our band and Vancouver promised to be an extremely memorable show, which will be addressed further on. We loaded up early on the Tuesday and piled in to the van, eager to get on our way. As we exited the city we realized how much time we'd really get to spend in the other cities and that floored us. It became clear that maybe we'd benefited from the other dates not working out. We had a tape deck adaptor to run our iPods and it refused to work. It was a quiet start and totally irritating trying to get the music going but, after enough fiddling and roughhousing with the dash, it kicked in. The speakers on th