It’s been a great tour, and we couldn’t have done it without everyone in this picture.  Together we’ve covered countless miles, played for thousands of people, shopped in a ton of Targets, stopped in hundreds of Starbucks and Tim’s and eaten in 3,896,794 restaurants…give or take a few.  Hendrik, (on the right), manages our tour, finds the hotels with the crispiest, whitest beds, drives 4 middle aged, yammering women for hours on end, never balks when the van has to make another stop, (“Hendrik, Trader Joe’s on the right!!”), answers every random question about the city we’re in with the right friggin’ answer and tends to our ever evolving pre show, individual dietary needs.  No wonder he bought himself a hunting knife in Maryland.  Peter,(between Robin and Jayne), manages the stage, drives his type A – “we should have left an hour ago”- self along with our laid back “get hip to the groove” musician for hours on end and makes sure his ladies are taken care of for the tech run, during the show, (offering me his pants when I couldn’t find mine), and after the show…whether packing our props in his suitcase ’cause that new pair of shoes is taking up too much space now, or magically producing a bottle of wine and a bag of chips if by chance there’s nowhere to unwind after a show in a small town.  All of this is underscored by our previously mentioned, most magnificent musician, Bob, (left), who, 8 years later, still sits on stage every night at his grand piano beaming at us as if it’s the first time he’s seen the show, and plays music and nuances that support and guide us so brilliantly while we’re performing that we are both completely unaware of it and utterly entwined in it.  Kudos also go to our comic genius director, John Hemphill, our  lovely, lively business and number gals, Anne Marie and Susan, and to our fabulous understudies Lisa Merchant and Jen Goodhue for saving our shirts.  But to this group here, the core, the ones who’ve moved around several countries now like a rice crispy square…stuck together from van to plane to van to hotel to van to theatre to van to restaurant to van to…and all over again, smiling and lapping it up all the way like kids on a family trip;  thank you for such a wonderful experience, one that I’d never imagined, and now will never forget.  (Kathy)