This is a long blog, but it has been a while. This is there beautiful Lake Powell/ Powell lake but it is huge and has floating cabins and tons of boats! It goes on all through out the mountains. Everyone here is so proud of their beautiful lake. Many houses are built higher so they can see the lake from their homes.
This is there wave breakers. They brought a bunch of huge war ships from World War II to stop the big waves from coming up to the paper mill that is just on the coast. Our hotel is actually right next to it. So we get the beautiful sounds of sirens and factory work all night. It sings us to sleep now. But they are about 5 ships. I thought it was pretty interesting.
This is what I do all day! Just kidding. With rehearsals all day and people partying outside my room all night, I have got to get it in when I can. We have had about 6 hours of Orchestra rehearsal everyday.
This is really cool. My academy time is over and now it is performance time with the community. They have this international Choral festival here every year. It is called Kathaumixw ( I promise that is how you spell it). They have about 30 Choirs from all over the world come and perform for the week. It is basically a competition to be the greatest choir in the world. This community really puts on a show. They have been preparing for the past 2-3 weeks. My orchestra is backing up their community choir for tonight, the opening night. They have it in their "great hall" which is the community hockey rink. It is a neat experience to be part of this tradition here. This is the first year that they are having the academy orchestra play with them. I feel honored to be part of it.
Here are the Auzies and our bus driver name Warren, he is actually Australian too, but has lived here for a while. Me and Katelyn are his favorites, well Katelyn mostly. But he always tells us how much money we are saving by not partying, all though he goes and parties too. But he seems to really respect us for not . I think its just because it gives him lest kids to worry about when he has to bring them home from the town pub at 3 in the morning. But he is a really nice guy.
When we are not rehearsing, eating, or walking, we are on the bus. We kind of get bored sometimes. But we make that time fun.
Well I will probably be home before my next post. I just have one more day! I love you all! See you soon.!!
We Spent a day at Newport beach. We had burns for about two weeks after:( The water was freezing cold at first, then you got used to it. I learned how to body surf.. I had a great teacher ;)
What better to end a good trip off then going to the temple. The church we went to was right next to the Newport Beach Temple. It was beautiful! We didn't have a lot of time so we hope to go back and visit it again!
Our last Roadrunners game:( There was a professional league baseball team in St. George. They just ended the franchise in St. George because they weren't getting enough support. It was sad, we always had fun going to the games. Hopefully they'll come back next season.
