After a terrific performance for incoming 6th graders at their middle school, Samantha's Jazz Band is headed to a national competition in St. Louis! We got her to Houston Middle School at 5:30 this morning to catch her bus, and I've gotten a steady stream of cell phone calls ever since. I have to say I expected it though. This is the first non-family accompanied trip she's ever taken. Between that and being the only bari sax in their jazz band for the competition, well, she's been pretty nervous. Fighting off a nasty flu made things only more difficult. But last night after the runtrough, a switch flipped. She went from being afraid to being super-psyched!
So no, the calls weren't asking us to come get her. It was more things like, "Wow, this bus has tray tables, cup holders, TV's (on which they were watching movies to pass the time), and a POTTY! She got a seat with her friend Jackie from competitive choir, and they're sitting near the band and choir directors which gives Sam a bit more comfort. Then around 11:45, I got a shrieking phone call screaming, "Mom, I saw the Arch!!!" Yep, she'll be just fine. Until she settled out, I didn't fully realize how uptight I was about the trip either.
They're spending some time today at the St. Louis Zoo before the choir competes late this afternoon. From there, it's to Union Station for dinner, and off to the City Museum. Tomorrow morning, the honor band and jazz band compete, then it's off to Six Flags for the day. Sunday morning, they get up and head home with a pit stop for lunch at a place called Lambert's where they actually THROW the fresh rolls to you. Hmm...sounds like the PERFECT place to take middle schoolers to me! The gang should be home around 4:30 in the afternoon.
The pictures I posted above are scans of their tour shirt. Geeky of me I know, but the odds of that shirt coming home clean aren't very good, and Sam's a scrapbooking nut so...
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