Fantastic weekend! (Pacific Singerbund in S.Cal.)

The directors room! King size bed all to myself! WHEE!

Run down time!

Friday:
Get up at 5:15am. Throw stuff together. Get out of the house be 6:20. Get on bus at 7.

Dinner Friday night. The servers were SWAMPED.

 Pick up Stockton choir. Enjoy each others company. Get to the hotel at 5. Dinner at the club at 6. (Too salty! But still a good time). Meet Otto, one of the tenors from Stockton, who is a hoot and a half and a retired German teacher. Get back to hotel, jump in the spa for a spell. Go to bed.




Saturday:
Get up at 8am. Have breakfast downstairs (fruit and granola..and potatoes). Go back upstairs, meditate for just a bit and then end up falling asleep until 1:00!!!! Get up, change, and leave for the club at 2. Get our tables, then go outside to warm up. The evening begins at 3 with a fair amount of talking. Sacramento sang 3rd, and we get a thunderous applause that turns out to be the loudest of the evening. Everyone loved my stage presents. Then Stockton sang 5th, and got a rather loud applause as well (they were the two best out of the seven that performed)
Then we all eat dinner. Mine was a bit of pasta with LOTS of veggies! YAY VEGGIES! Chat it up with nearly everyone. Get to know Otto more, who offers to teach me German for free! (since he's retired and not working any more). Dance with a few people. Participate in a MASSIVE conga line alla German style. We're one of the last ones to leave (at 9).
Join some of the ladies in the spa again. Then hit the hay.

Sunday:
Get up at 7am. Same breakfast (though I was naughty and had a bagel with honey). Pack and load the bus. Leave around 9:30. Stop for lunch at Anderson's Pea Soup (AMAZING!). Get home. The end. :)

Everyone had a fantastic time, and some real camaraderie was built.. within the choirs and between as well.  I got so many compliments, I really didn't know what to do with myself. They were all so pleased (myself included). Hopefully lessons with Otto will work out, cause I'm really inspired now to learn. It would really help take us to the next level if I had a better grasp of the language.


One a few small downsides:
1. My neck MAJORLY hurts for some reason (on the right side). I think I might have slept wrong on the first night. Or the fact that I didn't wear my mouth guard during my nap? Or a bit of both? No idea.... I just know it's REALLY hurting..hard to move.
2. I've got bruises EVERYWHERE now. ALL over my legs AND arms. :P Either that means the 1M is working, and my count is dipping before it goes up... or I'm going to start my period soon (which should be true), or a mix of both.
But besides that..... Fan.Tastic. :)