Marching Band Trip

Tuesday, October 30 - Sunday, November 4

The high school marching band takes a trip to Disneyland each year towards the end of marching season.  They left in the evening on Tuesday, drove straight through to California and had the kids to the gate of Disneyland when it opened at 8 a.m. on Halloween (after stopping somewhere for breakfast).  M&M spent the day with other 9th graders from the band and had a really good time.  She said that most of the rides had no line at all and those that had longer lines they got the FastPasses for.  They had just opened up Cars Land and M&M said that it was really fun and looked just like scenes from the Cars movies.

Tower of Terror - not one of M&M's favorite rides but she agreed to go on it with her friends at the end of the day.

At the end of the day the band went to a hotel that they stayed at for the next two nights.  The next morning (Thursday) they had breakfast at the hotel and then headed to a music/marching clinic at Riverside Community College (RCC).  For lunch they headed to Balboa Beach and then had a couple of hours to spend at the beach.  Later that evening they headed back to RCC for a performance of their show and then they watched the RCC band perform.

Friday morning they left for St. George.  They had a Red Rocks Invitational (and state competition) at Dixie State College Friday evening.  Then they stayed in a hotel in St. George that night and performed twice the next day at a St. George high school for a Bands of America regional competition - the first year our high school was invited.  They had the preliminary competition in the morning and then the top 10 bands went on to perform again that night for the finals - and our school made it.

After the band finals on Saturday night the band left and got back to the high school around 5:00 in the morning!  It was kind of crazy!  M&M is already looking forward to next year though!  (She ended up missing the last two days of the school quarter with Friday being a teacher work day.)