Car Trouble

Well, we left today at about 4 o’clock heading toward San Antonio for the Ann Roberts interview. We were pretty relaxed and just expected another day of shooting much like the Norman interview which went smoothly overall, so we were enjoying a Sunday afternoon trip in Rodd’s car. A new member of the crew today was Chris Bucheit, who has a bachelor’s from UT in film, so he was a welcome addition. Things started to get stressful when we got within the San An city limits, we were already running late and we ended up getting extremely lost. We have now determined that Mark Sanderson will not be charge of directions. We went around in circles and when we finally got our bearings straight we found out that we were only a few blocks away from the Norman’s house where we were two weeks ago! We also decided that we want Ashley to come down with us as often as she can. She didn’t come down with us today, and we ended up missing her; we get lost in so many ways without our production manager! We eventually arrived at the Roberts’ home and met Ann Roberts, who was the first person baptized in the bailey st chapel, and her son Larry Roberts, who tricked a general authority in eating a jalapeno. Bro. Roberts wasn’t feeling up to an interview, so we interviewed Ann Roberts, who is an incredibly charming woman in her 70’s with a bright personality and a good memory. It took awhile for us to get the lighting right, our original set up had to be changed several times with us moving the lights and switching the gels, and after about 45 minutes we finally settled on a good lighting set up. The interview went well, it was very informative and the spirit was there. We packed up and were heading home, and I was wrapping up on the video diary, but I ended up speaking to soon, as Rodd noticed some warning signs on his car and had to pull over. It ended up that his radiator was completely dry! We stopped at a service station and got two big bottles of fluid, but that still wasn’t enough, so we went over to HEB and got some cheap gallons of water, and finished filling it up. So, what we expected just to be another interview ended up being something very different, when life throws curve balls, you still gotta hit it.