Hello all!
I realize I haven't blogged in a while. Well that is because I have been extremely busy. This past Friday the BYU-I Symphony Orchestra and choirs went on a music tour where we played God's Everlasting Love. First we traveled to Twin Falls, Idaho on six huge charter buses. The bus ride there was pretty uneventful... I tried to sleep, but that didn't really work so I just listened to music on the way to Twin Falls. We got there in the middle of the day and had rehearsals and a performance. After the performance we all went to different host houses where we stayed for the night. Crystal (violist as well) and I went to the Crowley's house. They were such a cute old couple, and they fed us so much food. Everyone was exhausted after the long day so I was excited to go to sleep. It turns out that Crystal and I found awesome toys from back in the day in their basement. We ended up staying up late playing with them and taking pictures. I would post some pictures, but unfortunately they are all on her camera.
So Saturday morning the Crowleys made us some fantastic waffles and we were on our way. Everyone met back at a stake center in Twin Falls. We then departed for Salt Lake City. We drove through a lot of snow and saw a lot of car accidents so we were pretty blessed to make it to SLC in one piece. We got there a little later than planned so we rushed to get dressed into concert clothes and go on stage at the Tabernacle (yeah, we played in the Tabernacle at SLC. It was awesome) to start recording. We recorded for what seemed like an eternity, then we went to the church headquarters building to have dinner. We got to travel there by the super secret tunnels under Temple Square. I was quite excited. After that we had the concert. My mother and her husband came, along with two of my step brothers. It was a nice suprise, considering I thought only my mom and step-dad were coming. The concert went really well, and it was really emotional. Excellent work of music, really. After the concert we drove a long 4 hours back to Rexburg. We drove through snow once more. We got back at 2am Sunday morning. I walked home in the freezing cold and pretty much didn't go to sleep until 3am. It was so fun. Luckily we didn't have church until 1pm yesterday so I slept in.
I didn't do homework at all on the tour so I had all last night to write my essay that I hadn't started at all. I only wrote about half of it and gave up at about 2am this morning. Good thing this is only the first draft...
And for a random fact...
I decided a while ago that as long as I am playing in some sort of orchestra the rest of my life, I will be happy. My ultimate dream job is playing in a pit orchestra for awesome musicals and ballets like The Nutcracker, Wicked, or The Phantom of the Opera. I also wish I would have been a dancer. Ballet is so graceful and beautiful... but I know I would fail at it. I'm definitely not a graceful person. At all. All my hopes and dreams gone... just kidding. But really.
Class time she comes.
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