Day 43

Date: June 26, 2011
Time: 11:34pm (PST)
Playing on iTunes: "We Are the Future" by the 2000 Cadets








Location: San Lorenzo, CA Day 2

Every morning we get woken up by music playing for a few minutes then Ben Pouncey (drum major) says "Good Morning Cadets" and tells us what we need to do to prepare for the day. This morning we woke up to "Stars and Stripes Forever". I'd have to say I absolutely loved waking up to that. It was a very fun, peppy march to wake you up in the morning. Especially the crazy flute solo at the end!


So the pit was already gifted with donuts, but the corps got donuts for breakfast!! I had...well...we won't say how many I had...but they were good! Another special gift this morning was the cops jackets. Every year the corps is able to order a special jacket that only Cadets members are allowed to order. You get your name specially printed on them. These are bowling style jackets. And on the back they say Cadets. See below:

The jacket colors you see vary because of different cameras.
The color of the jacket closely resembles the first picture.

There are railroad tracks directly outside of the high school that we're staying at. Every half hour or so this train comes barreling through with it's abnormally loud horn and just overtakes anything that is going on at the moment. It gets a little frustrating at times but fortunately it's the California AMTRAK so it goes by VERY quickly. 

On our way to the show tonight, there was a lot of beautiful scenery outside going through the hills of California. But the one thing that really struck me was the amount of windmills they had. I don't know much about California, but looks like they're very advanced in the wind power industry, because there were miles and miles of windmills just spinning and spinning. I can't even imagine how much power was being given off by these things. 

32nd Annual Moonlight Classic, Stockton, CA
1) The Cadets - 78.8
2) Blue Devils - 77.7
3) Phantom Regiment - 76.05
4) Santa Clara Vanguard - 74.55
5) Blue Knights - 71.45
6) Madarins  - 64.1
7) Pacific Crest - 63.55




After the show we traveled back to San Lorenzo for tomorrow's very short rehearsal block and then FREE DAY in San Francisco!!


P.S. If anyone would like get an even more updated feed of my adventures this summer, you can follow my Twitter here. You can see what the Cadets are doing play by play throughout the day. You DO NOT need a Twitter account to follow it.




Thought of the Day: "Think to yourself, are you prepared? Are you ready for what's coming ahead? This is a question you should ask yourself for anything in life, school, work, music, etc."