Made my way from Omaha to St Louis to do the smallest refurb week in the history of the Kashi Day of Change Tour. :) Took me several hours as I wachted the temperature lower considerable while making my way to St Louis. It was much lovelier there. And I had a great ride stopping for bio-diesel and talking with my big sis, who's coming on tour with me for 2 weeks as a temp staffer near the end. We're both thrilled!
Once I arrived in St Louis, I picked up a delivery and headed over to a company that makes our graphics on our truck - we needed to change our list of stops on the back. We're half way through! Wow!
I ended up spending a bit of time in my hotel room in St Louis, but Kent (my first tour manager) came by Monday night and brought me out to dinner at a micro-brewery in St Charles. It was quite lovely. A small little town with brick roads and old buildings alongside a river. And, although I was busy with trying to get my loan settled for a Thursday closing, I spent most of my time alone reading. It was really quite lovely.
Wednesday rolled around and I picked Brandy to drive her up to Lisle, IL (just outside of Chicago). I was waiting for the phone to ring telling me whether I was approved or not. My mother was signing for me on Thursday and I needed to tell her whether she needed to drive all the way up to the Cape or not.
My loan company, Lending Tree, decided that I needed to send about 10 more documents, random things they should have asked me for in the beginning, and the underwriter decided I didn't qualify. WHAT?! So, they had to redo all the paperwork and change the loan amount, the interest rate and the points so I could qualify for the loan. Then they asked me to basically resend all my info in again. I was outraged, and not a happy driver.
By the time I got into Lisle, I was 30 minutes late for my site check because of traffic, which didn't matter, fortunately, and headed to my hotel to e-mail, fax and call Lending Tree back with all the information they decided they needed again. Craziness! We had our team meeting and headed to Lisle in the morning (my "closing" day.)
After a great set up, slow day, showing Dani, my boss from Relay around, and dealing with a loan that never was approved on my closing day because the underwriter screwed up the loan amount, so my poor mother is going to have to go home and then come back again on Monday (or whenever), I went to bed, exhausted.
It may be the buyers market for real estate prices, but it sure isn't the buyers market for people that can't pay outright and need a loan to help them along the way. It's been so stressful, and still isn't over. We couldn't close Friday because Lending Tree was closed since it was the day before July 4th. Blah!
We got through the weekend well enough. I got to teach Yoga quite a bit this weekend. It was nice to get back in touch with yoga again. I did a lot of back openers, so my spine felt like jelly when I went to bed. I had 2 girls stick with me through every single class on Friday. It was nice to have regulars at a festival.
Saturday, I took Lexi and myself over to a Henna tent at the festival and had henna tatoos done. Something I've been wanting to do for years! And it was lovely. Lexi's was a little more creative, but I liked it just the same. Notice my lovely picture. :)
Sunday we pretty much had the day off. Our first Sunday off since we started this tour. And we spent in royally. Giovanna left Sunday to take her vacation and Lexi, Jason and I headed to a cubs game to celebrate our Sunday off and Lexi's birthday, which was Saturday! Friday was Giovanna's birthday. And next week is Kerri's birthday. Can you imagine travelling with that many females and all are Cancers, except me? Craziness all around!
On to Michigan.
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