I do believe our teenage daughters were among the happiest children on earth as they went last month with the high school band on a trip to Disneyland.
Just possibly.
I have to thank the great teachers, administrators and coaches that made the trip possible. Our amazing band director arranges to go there, about every 3 years. (So every band kid gets a chance to go, once during their high school career.) Fundraising opportunities are there for the kids, too. While there, they did a Soundtrack Session Workshop, where the band gets to go into a recording studio, and play some of the Disney movie music, and hear it played back with the movie. It's pretty cool. I'm sad to know that this is our band director's last year here -- he will be sorely missed!
And, I may have mentioned this before, but in the case of Alyssa and Darcie -- they are the only two band kids that are Varsity softball players. The athletic director re-arranged the softball schedule *twice*, so that there would be no games during the Disneyland trip.
(Of course, if we take 20% of the batters [#4 and #5 in the lineup], 50% of the pitching staff, and 100% of the catching staff away -- it's kinda tough to play softball games competitively.) So, thanks go to the athletic director and the coach, for sure.
Here's a few pictures from their trip -- most of them from Alyssa's phone. We need a moment of silence in memory of Darcie's phone: which took a flying leap off the second floor in the mall... and did not survive. Man, that girl is hard on equipment!!
It's about a 24-hour trip on a bus.
That's a long, long time on a bus....
That's gotta be pretty crazy. But they had plenty of munchies, which is almost all you need on a trip, right?
It was extra-fun for them to be going with some of their best friends, too. And they all still liked each other by the time the trip was done! Not that I thought it would be different. They've got some really great friends, and I am eternally thankful for good friends for my kids.
That was a barbeque meal, arranged for the band group at Disneyland. Whoever planned that -- was really smart!
They loved the shows, including Aladdin, and Disney's World of Color:
On the final day of their trip, just before leaving town, they got to go to Huntington Beach. For landlocked Idaho kids, the ocean can be kind of a big deal. Here's our graduates....
The fabulous foursome....
I love that picture!
And I also love this picture:
So glad my girls got to go. This is a trip that they'll actually remember -- they were kind of young for our last Disneyland trip. What great memories for them!
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