Catch up

I need to play catch up.

The weekend after California. I was again off for the south this time on a big chartered bus with a bunch of teenagers. Yep, it was Marching band tour.

It was a great experience. We left Thursday afternoon and made it to St. George and spent the night there. (the best part about the trip down was about 30 minutes after patrick dropped me off at the bus he called and asked if he should just drive the car down. And then we remembered that the timing belt needs to be replaced before we go on a long trip. So mom volunteered her car. and the plans were set and then he decided that it just was not worth the money if he was not going to see me very much. Anyway the funny thing was that when i told Jared [timpanogos's band director] he laughed and said that he [patrick] didn't even make it two hours on his own.) in the end patrick did well and was alone with audrey for almost 72 hours. good job babe.

On Friday we had a competition at the State Championships Timpanogos took home the guard caption the visual performance caption and the music caption. We just didn't take home the percussion. And then we took first. It was a great way to end our utah season.

The next day we went to Vegas and competed in a BOA (bands of America) competition. BOA is run a lot different than utah's organization. i won't go into it but the biggest difference is that you are not classes by band size, like in utah, you are classed by school size. Timp is a big school and we were in the biggest class competiting against people with 300 or more students. (go our lowly 27 students) But it was awsome. We saw the best of the best in the south west. Just amazing. The chance to see those bands was worth the trip.

We were the smallest band to compete at BOA and out of 24 bands we took 18th. Hey we didn't come in dead last. I know...Right!

Then then there was Halloween. And yes i have pictures....at mom's. I'll get those up here. But mom and Katherine were the ones to take audrey because Patrick and I spent the evening packing for our move the next day. Yep we moved from the crappy crappy starcrest apartment to an amazingly great place. we are so excited about this. We have been there for 4 days and just love it.

The layout is the exact same but everything is new. (carpet, doors, entire kitchen.) it's just a great place. I'll get some pictures for you. We are not entirly moved in we still have a ton of boxes to go through in our room and audrey's but the living room and kitchen are unpacked and if we want to feel moved in we just shut the doors and the mess goes away.

I think we are caught up now. I am sorry for the readers digest version. I just didn't want the events to keep backing up. but now everyone knows why i have been so busy and have not been about to post much.

Love,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey :)