“Meat” the Meat Man….. Mitch McMahon.
This is my new partner Mitch. A little overview: Mitch is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He used to be the East team with Carly! Mitch is amazing at making videos and is a very funny, smart, and friendly guy. If you walk into a party, Mitch is your favorite dude right off the bat. Thats Mitch.
Obviously, you’ll learn a lot about him in the upcoming months so I don’t need to go into crazy detail right off the bat. Right now, we’ve had almost 2 weeks on the road together! We’ve been in Cape Girardeau, Nashville, Columbia, Kirksville, and now Davenport so far.
For our first few days in Cape Girardeau, there wasn’t a crazy amount of stuff to do. It’s small town Missouri for goodness sakes. The calm was welcome after the craziness that was winter staff. It also allowed Mitch and I to settle into our new routine a bit.
During one of our events in Cape Girardeau, a man came up and told us all about this truck that he had transformed into Mater from Cars! We nodded and looked at his pictures and told him how great the truck was and then he left. Well, sure enough… later that day we were driving down the road and what do we see!!! MATER! So of course we pull over and take lots of pictures.
Mitch and I also had women who had finished her last chemotherapy treatment THAT DAY and found out she was cancer free drive 100 miles to come see us. She could not even get out of the car to go inside the Wienermobile, but just wanted to see it from her window. Mitch and I of course loaded her up with every goodie we have and she started crying. Truly a memorable on the road experience.
Mitch and I soon headed to Nashville, aka the Dirty Nash, aka Nashvegas. Nashville was SO FUN! My goodness. Some of my best friends in the world live in Nashville, so it was bound to be a party. Night one, we met Eferg at a place called the goat and had what was easily the best wings I’ve ever had in my life. We ended up going back to eat more 3 more times? They were fantastic.
The next day, Luke came to visit! He got there late at night and we went out to dinner with Rachel and Jamison at a Thai place. I was very happy to have him visit. Then we had eferg over for the first of many #BESTFRIENDDOUBLEDATES. For those of you who don’t know, Mitch and Luke are college roommates and best friends. So they were together as a couple and me and eferg were together as a couple. We all hung out in our rooms until late.
The next day, Mitch, Luke and I all went to breakfast at Sky Blue Cafe (#thirdwheeling). They had a lovely breakfast date, and I was also there. We got super cool stickers and read off trivia to each other, before Mitch and I had to leave for our event (Thank goodness because I don’t like sharing Mitch).
After work, we met up with Luke and Eferg and got more wings at GOAT (this becomes a theme) before we met Rachel for dance class…. Now you’re thinking, gosh… what fun friends you have that they would all sacrifice their nights to attend a dance class with you and Rachel. Oh no. This was some mastermind manipulation. You see…. I told Luke that Mitch was in on dance class. Then Luke was in on dance class. Then I told Mitch, Luke was in on dance class and he being the good friend he is, assumed Luke was only going to make me happy. So naturally, Mitch was in for bro support. Then I went to eferg and told her she should come because EVERYONE was going and if she didn’t she’d be the odd man out. So then I had eferg in on it too. However, then they all talked to each other, discovered my master plan, but decided I’d worked too hard and it was too late and they’d go anyway. Muhahaha.
But I do think they had a lot of fun. So there.
Then that night, we all went out on the dirty Nash (minus Elizabeth and Rach) and had a grand ole time dancing and exploring. Luke left early in the morning and we went to work. Back on the grind.
Thursday was really fun though. We had a slower event, but my parents came afterward and we had a full afternoon. Mitch and I took the Wienermobile to Rachel’s after school program and got to be a surprise for her kids. One kid straight up ran into the Wiene with her razor scooter, but the Wiene was fine.
Shortly after that, we gave some family friends rides in the Wienermobile then headed to dinner at a pizza place. Mitch and I (okay… me…. I did it) ended up getting the Wienermobile wedged pretty tightly into the parking lot, but magically with our hotdogger skills we got it out. It was like a three point turn, but 500 points. I’m just glad the owner of the Tesla did not come out until we were done.
Friday night, we went to trivia with Rachel, Jamison, Eferg, and friends. We followed it up with someone dancing at Eferg’s place. The dancing continued into the weekend when Mitch invited me to a Saturday night wedding! Awwww our first wedding together ❤ Why are we so cute. The wedding was adorable, we killed it on the dance floor, nuff said.
Sunday we hit up the Nashville Parthenon for some photographs and to film our team recruitment video and then we met up with the squad for more wings after.
Sadly, while getting wings, Eferg had an allergic reaction to God knows what and I had to take her to the ER. She spent the night with me in my hotel and then I took her back in the morning when she had her rebound reaction. The dirty nash….it gets you every time.
What a note to end on. Mitch and I headed out, and thus begun our trip to Columbia, Kirksville, and Davenport. So, we were technically supposed to be in Kirksville for three days, but I wasn’t really about that so I schedules us to go to three different places in three days. It makes sense, I swear. That way we got to spend our off days in Columbia, which has way more stuff to do, but we weren’t wasting gas money.
During our off day, Mitch and I went on a super cool hike (suggested by Troy) called Devil’s Icebox. It had cool caves, natural bridges, and fresh air. Just what we needed. We tried spelunking a little, but it was very dark and the water was cold. We decided on a longer hike instead. Oh, also there was a zebra (don’t ask).
Later that night, we met up with some of Troy’s friends and played trivia at Mizzou.
MIZ-ZOU.
Early the next day, we drove to Kirksville for an interview, which was special on all accounts. We got to go to the Oscar Mayer plant and see one of the older wienes. We had a little photoshoot and got asked about our opinions of geopolitical affairs. We had no opinion. Then we finished our drive and are now relaxing in the great Davenport, Iowa.
So thats the dealio. Much more to come with my new meat man 🙂
Per usual, “franks” for coming to “ketchup” with me,
Hot Diggity Dot
Oh and if you’re barbecurious about where we will be the next few weeks:
- January 23 – January 26: Milwaukee, WI
- January 26 – January 31: Madison, WI
- January 31 – February 14: Minneapolis, MN
- February 14 – February 17: St. Cloud, MN
Hot Dog Dot and the Wienermobile! 