So last year, my friends finally convinced me to join show choir on the last week of school and I'm glad i joined! Our choir has been practicing a lot (way too much...) and has basically taken over my life as of late because we were getting ready for tour. Finally, tour came and I was super excited. Above, is me and my mom driving to the airport to go on my 7 hour plane flight.
Me and my best friend Trever Rivera heading into the airport with our garment bags (super heavy).
At the airport getting ready to get my bags checked in.
The three musketeers! Me and my two best friends (Tyler and Trever) just hanging out before the flight. Last picture before my mom had to leave.
After the extremely long two flights, we had to get on buses to get to our hotel. With the time change, we got into our hotel, Doubletree by Hilton, at about one in the morning. None of us were tired though since we hadn't adjusted to the change yet. Pictured above is our hotel room where me, Trever, Tyler, and Greg shared a room.
Going to bed at three in the morning probably wasn't the greatest idea since we got up at 4:50 the next day to go to the gym and go swimming (which I couldn't participate in because of my ankle). So on our three hour bus ride to Washington DC the next day, we were extremely tired as you can see by the picture of Tyler.
Washington DC was very cool and a great experience to be there. In the picture above, that is the back side of the White House which is much smaller than it seems in person!
Lots of hanging around and random pictures before moving on to other places.
Here is the Vietnam Wall which listed the names of every American soldier who died during the Vietnam war. It was a really special experience to see so many people walking by in silence out of respect. The names seemed to go on forever!
Next, we went to the Lincoln Memorial which was really cool since it's in one of my favorite movies! (Night at the Museum 2!) The stairs were not my friend since my ankle was bugging me still but going up and inside was totally worth it!
Honest Abe himself. I was surprised at how close we were actually allowed to go! We were pretty much able to touch it!
Tyler, me and Trever hanging out outside in Thomas Jefferson's backyard.
Thomas Jefferson's house (well, used to be at least). We got the whole tour inside and then were allowed to roam around the area checking out everything. Me and Tyler decided to go check out the wharf but apparently we weren't supposed to! We found that out when the cops started coming after us... Whoops! Everything was ok though and we got back to where everyone else was and had a great time. Day 1 was a success!
Day 2: Today, we got a tour of Jamestown in the morning which was fairly cool, but not terribly interesting to me. After lunch though, we were allowed to go to Colonial Williamsburg and go off on our own and check out the place and all the cool things it had to offer. Pictured above is Zach and Spencer in front of the public school.
Later that day, we had a rehearsal scheduled at a Mormon church which was just our last thing to solidify any parts of the music that we were having trouble with. As show choir was rehearsing, I had a really bad headache that was bugging me, but I was able to rehearse just fine. I also was invited to sing with Concert choir and as I was singing with them, I started getting extremely light-headed and once we finished I just laid on the ground to try to relax and figure out what was going on. But then my right arm and hand started shaking like crazy and I had no power over it and could not stop. I went outside to get some fresh air but my arm was still shaking and at that point parents started coming to me, seeing if they could do anything to help. Apparently, I lost all color in my face and was not doing well when someone decided to call 911 which got me extremely freaked out. At the hospital though, they did a bunch of tests on me and eventually determined that I had extreme exhaustion and dehydration and what I needed was food, water, and a good night sleep. Everything worked out fine, but I freaked a lot of people out!
Day 3: Performance time!! Here are me and some of my show choir friends waiting outside for our performance. Everyone was very nervous, but also very excited!
Show choir went first, and we nailed it! Everything went extraordinarily well and the judges were very impressed with our group and actually said that we were world class. They said lots of nice things about us and were very complimentary about our group as a whole.
Next up, Concert choir! Again we did really good and the judges had lots of compliments about us. All of our choirs did awesome and we were super excited once we finished!
The best part of the trip was Busch Gardens after our performance. It was a really fun amusement park and we had a blast their. Also, as you can see above, I asked my show choir partner, Erin Livingston, to prom! It didn't go exactly as planned but ended up working out great!
She said yes! That pretty much made my day and the rest of the time in the park we just partied and had an amazing time. Lots of memories made, and lots of fun rides.
At the awards ceremony (inside the park), our choir was super pumped and excited to find out how well we did. We ended up winning all gold and all first place and won every award and trophy possible. We rocked it and had an amazing time! Me and Erin above holding the show choir trophy.
All the awards and plaques that our choirs received! They're now hanging proudly in our choir room at school!
Sunday school class picture! Me, Morgan and Tyler with one last picture. That night we partied and got no sleep at all. We all crashed on the plane flight the next day and pretty much slept the entire time. Overall, for my first choir tour, it was amazing and I had a super fun time with all of my choir friends. New friends made and many memories to keep for a long time. We all had a great time and I can't wait for next year! Hopefully no more ambulance trips!
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