Texans Cheerleaders On Tour: Inspiration From Led Zep And The Air Force

The Texans cheerleaders are headed to Japan on an Armed Forces Entertainment tour,
because our brave service members want to hear what Matt Schaub is
really like. Or maybe they want to look at cheerleaders.

Texans
cheerleader Lindsay (as always, first names only to deter stalker
creeps) will be blogging about the trip for us. Very enthusiastically.

Hi Everyone,
First off, let me say that I forgot my iPod on this 12-hour flight. After watching The Book of Eli (GREAT FLICK!) I scrolled through the music Jukebox on my monitor and found…drum roll please….

The complete albums of
1.) Led Zeppelin
2.) QUEEN
3.) The Best of Jimi Hendrix
4.) Them Crooked Vultures
5.) Pearl Jam
and The Ramones to name a few!

I am SAVED!!!!!! My flight would not have been complete had I not been able to let the LED OUT like I do back home in Houston every night at 9:00 when I listen to 93.7 The Arrow. I thought I was going to end up listening to the airline music channels filled with elevator music, and Sade singing “Smooth Operator.” You know those tunes that they play in Walgreens late at night when you run in for a pack of gum!? I was dreading having to listen to Kenny G tunes for 10 hours (sorry Kenny).

Could this flight be any cooler??

Yes!! Get this:

Ariana and I are sitting together. We get settled in and the gentleman
sitting next to us says hello and asks us how we are. We introduce
ourselves and he says his name is Rickey. It just so happens that Rickey
is headed back to Japan where he is stationed at an Air Force base
north of where we will be visiting other bases. In conversation we learn
that Rickey has been stationed in Japan for over one year and lived in
my hometown of Spring, TX for over six years!!

He is a huge
movie buff like me and enjoys console gaming. I am a PC gamer myself and
have a lot of friends that play on console as well. We even like the
same games!!

I think that it is so neat how you can meet perfect
strangers and end up having so much in common.

More than that,
Ariana and I are honored to sit in the same row as Rickey. These guys
endure so much. Just this flight alone can be so grueling and a hassle
to get back and forth from the base to home in the U.S.

Rickey
is 22 years old (like me!).

The life that they live is a service to
our country. It is a service to you and to me….so that I am free and
able to express my thoughts and words to you all as I am doing here on
HoustonPress.com. It is in the little things that make me stop and think
about my life compared to others.

I think on behalf of myself
and the other five Texans Cheerleaders, that we are thankful after this
past Memorial Day. This trip could not have come at a more fitting time.
It is important to not only remember all of the individuals in the
armed forces who have lost their lives but to also remember those men
and women who are currently serving, like our new friend Rickey.

If
we can, we will shake every single hand of every military individual
within our reach, at every base that we visit this trip. We will express
great gratitude toward everyone serving in the next few days.

If
we can pass the warmth and love to these men and women through a simple
handshake, smile, and a hug, I hope that we can help them feel a little
bit closer to home and a little closer to their families somehow.

Meeting
Rickey just lit a fire inside of me and I can’t wait for the rest of
this trip. It is going to be incredible.