St. George Trip - Day 2

Saturday, November 3

We ran into a family that we know from soccer, marching band and church at the breakfast provided by our hotel!  What a small world it is!  Their son is one of the drum majors for M&M's marching band and their younger son plays on Luke's soccer team.  After breakfast both of our families packed up our cars and ended up following each other to the band competition that morning.

This competition was a regional Bands of America (BOA) marching band competition and it was the first one that their high school had been invited to.  I think that M&M's band performed the best that I have ever seen them.  We debated staying around to see if they made it into the finals, but we thought that the kids had had enough of marching band for the weekend...  This was their first competition where they actually had judges on the field judging them.  Those are the kinds of competitions that I remember playing in.

See if you can find M&M in these two pictures.

After their band performed we met up with them out in the parking lot where they were having some pictures taken.  DH got a few pictures of M&M in her uniform and then with the other students in her flute/piccolo/oboe section.

After the band performance we drove out to Snow Canyon State Park to have a picnic lunch and then let the kids play in the sand there for a couple of hours.  We brought some shovels and buckets from home with us.  It was nice and relaxing and the kids had a blast!  The weather was perfect and we were really surprised that there weren't more people there.  For a while we were the only ones out at the sand dunes.

This picture makes it look like we are going to lose MJ in a hole!

And in case you were wondering, it is very difficult to get a picture of 5 of these kids all looking and smiling at the camera!  Especially when there is fun sand all around you!

Me trying to get control of those two younger ones...

Yummy!  Sand on the face!

Who was in charge of this girl's hair? :P

** And a note to myself:  Next time you take kids somewhere where there will be a lot of sand, have them wear clothes that don't have so many pockets and cuffs.  When I went to do laundry after the trip there were handfuls of sand pouring out of the kids' clothes!  Apparently we brought quite a bit of the red sand home with us!

We left St. George for home in the mid-afternoon and stopped at Arby's for dinner on our drive back.  M&M texted us as we were leaving St. George to tell us they had made it into the finals for the BOA competition.  It was kind of weird not having her with us on this trip...