Amanda and Graham's Great Pig Adventure

Thursday 2nd April – The Music Hall

We knew it was going to be colder today as we had gone quite a way North, and there was a cold weather front, but we hadn’t expected it to be snowing!! Yesterday we were in shorts and t-shirts!

Portsmouth is a beautiful New England town with pretty clapboard houses, some dating from 1880s. On a sunny summer’s day it must be a lovely place to wander around, but it was perishing cold – we can’t be lucky all the time though! There were lots of independent boutiques and seaside clothing shops we could duck into to warm up so lots of shopping was done, again! Our cellist, Rachael is from Portsmouth (UK!) so she picked up quite a few souvenirs and gifts.

We treated ourselves to a meal out and were joined by Lisa and Steve. We found a seafood restaurant with views over the water and both had Lobster Roll, which I had been wanting to try somewhere. We had a delicious clam chowder to share first, too. It was quite pricey but we had good news while we were in there saying that catering today was a buy-out! In other words we get money instead of food, so that worked out perfectly!

Soundcheck at 3.30 and a great show. The theatre was a bit smaller today which meant the audience were closer. They listened well and joined in with gusto, so it was really good. Evie our presenter said it was her favourite one!

After the show we holed up on the bus and watched two more episodes together. The bus generator had stopped and we were running on the auxiliary battery all evening. We had lights and power, but no a/c and it got really cold, so we had an early night and got tucked up in bed. It seemed so quiet without the background hum of the generator, we could hear all the incidental noises of people moving around, doors opening etc. which we usually don’t notice.