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May 23, 11:51 AMEmergency Landings & BirthdaysHi everyone! It’s been an eventful week!! The ACM's were fun in Las Vegas (the red carpet was so hot! Over 100 degrees! ) - and I got to get up and sing with John Rich at an after party he hosted which was a lot of fun! I didn’t want to stay out late though, since I had to fly early the next morning to LA for press about my album launch.
Well rest would not prepare me for what was about to happen! After about 30 min of flying, the stewardess starts running around frantically and bells start ringing and the pilot comes on and says we need to make an emergency landing in Ontario – about an hour away from LA! So everyone takes their seats and we land ASAP! They ran tests on the ground while they kept us on the plane for an hour - it was over 100 degress on the plane - and the pilot came on finally and said they made the right decision to land, as the tests confirmed some sort of major electrical/fuel problem! So glad we landed!!! They said we would all have to wait 2 hours for a bus to come and drive us to LA airport. Of course I was now hopelessly late for the TV appearances I was to film, and so my tour manager and I were trying to find a rental car - which we did finally, and with no food we raced our four cylinder car to where the interviews were taking place. Pretty wild!
After LA, I went to Nashville to film my second video for the next single “I Do” - it was so fun to film!! It’s not like any of my other videos - there are hot rods and car racing and it was so much fun!!! I think you guys will really like it! After the video, my manager Virginia and my friend Jessica and Amy and Ty all took me to a place for birthday cake and presents (a surprise!) Virginia was so thoughtful to track down my Rolling Stone covers and frame them for me! Can you believe I have never kept a single magazine cover or gold album or anything in my whole career?! Its so sad! It was so sweet of her to track them down and give them to me. (She got them on eBay from a fan who probably had no idea he was selling to me...)
Now I’m on a plane headed back home - hopefully with no surprise landings! - to have my real birthday at the ranch, and I’m so ready to be home. It will be the last time I’m home until August I think! Nashville Star, my album release, and the tour all start soon!
Anyways, I hope you guys are all good and happy!! Talk soon, and SAFE TRAVELS!!!