Sunday October 24 2010

AHHHHHHHH!

Soorry I haven't been able to blog! Been busy with band! We had to go to the Madison vs. Reagan football game to perform during halftime on Friday, and the wind was freaking crazy. We were scared that it was going to be like that for UIL, and prayed like crazy for the wind to go away. Our hair had to be done and slept in for UIL because we were the first ones to perform! HOW FUN IS THAT?

We had to be at school by 5:00a.m., so lucky me, I gotta wake up at 4:00 a.m. Even though we had to be the first performance, it was the freakin' coolest freaking performance ever! It rained with our black and yellow flags, rained even harder during abby's solo, and stopped when we came out as yellow. When we tossed our yellow flags, there was lightning. And when we came out with our huge flags, the sun had started coming out. Pretty epic I must say.

We got to go home afterwards until 3:00 p.m., so I went to Michael's to buy stuff to make Tina's late birthday present. Vannessa came over and she helped me work on it, and we also watched that show 1000 Ways to Die. There are so many random ways to die. Watching that kind of freaked me out.

Umm so when we got to Heroes later, we got to watch other bands perform, including Johnson. Johnson did awesome! After all the bands performed, they listed the bands in "random order". We were the second band to be called out, and we all got super excited. Being the second band having to perform, we had to rush out and get ready to perform.

On our way to warm ups, I saw someone special :) which made me super excited and pumped me up even more than I previously was. We had an awesome performance. I am so happy people were counting. We got to watch all the other bands afterwards which was fun. When everyone had performed and when we were waiting for them to announce who made state, the lights went out. We all thought they turned them off on purpose to keep us entertained before the results. It was funny cuz they turned on the jumbotron to show just green, making everything and everyone green! Then they started announcing the drum majors in the dark. Sadly though the lights came back on. We were very very nervous and excited to know our scores, because only 6 out of the ten bands that made it to finals were going to state. When the announcer called the Ronald Reagan band for 2nd place, we got up and screamed with happiness. Our band hasn't made it to state in forever, I think 2006? Yeah well we are going to state November 2nd, and we get to miss school, which is awesome.

So yeah we won 2nd in Pre-lims, and 2nd in Finals. All I'd like to say is Reagan Band is awesome! I am so proud of everyone. Our hard work is paying off! :D