choir tour part 2

i'll try to quickly post about the last three days of tour. friday and saturday we spent at disneyland! on friday morning we got to enter the park early and get ready to perform. we performed onstage in california adventures. it was a cool experience. the best part was that i got ahold of my great aunt maryann a couple of weeks before i went on the trip and told when and where i was performing and she came to watch! she took some great pictures and we got a second to talk afterwards. it was so good to see her!






the rest of friday was spent playing at the parks!








saturday was basically the same. we had a SUPER early performance time at a festival called "music in the parks" sponsored by disney (no pictures, sorry!) i should mention that i got the really great opportunity to be the one and only accompianist on this trip. i accompanied two songs ALWAYS and sometimes accompanied one more. so we did that festival in the morning, then hit the parks again. whitney and i went with different people than we had been with before which was fun and refreshing. at 5:00 we went to the mandatory awards ceremony that was held in disneyland for our festival that morning. our school took first place in all of our divisions! (not a hard thing to do since we were the only school competing in our divisions. ) when i thought the ceremony was over, i recieved a suprise when they called my name to come up and recieve an award as the outstanding festival accompianist! i got to go up on stage and hug mickey and minnie, and i got a medal. it was all very legit and flattering!






sunday morning i woke up with no voice and scratchy throat. unfortunatly, most of the people in choir all contracted this sickness. i didn't sing along with the choirs when we performed at church. it was great to go to a sacrament meeting in cali though. we quadroupled the size of their congregation with our choir. :) after church, we loaded up on the bus and drove home!
so that was my trip! it was so fun. i loved it. i'm still recovering from my "california virus" as we in choir are fondly calling it, but it was worth it. i was lucky because some people got REALLY sick. one kid got pnemonia. yikes!
monday afernoon (approx. 14 hours after we got home) we had our chamber festival. mr wilcock considered pulling us out because we were all so sick, but we decided that we might as well compete not doing our best, than not compete at all. so we did, and got straight superior ratings which means that we qualified to compete at the state level! it was a very exciting and satisfying moment!
yesterday was our concert and we did really well! i had to drop out of most of the songs at the high notes due to my lack of voice, but it was fun and there were no blaring mistakes anywhere.
wow that is alot of choir lately! it sort of took over my life for a bit. its great to be home and back into the swing of things. thanks for visiting my blog and reading about my crazy week! i hope you enjoyed it!