Day 49

Date: July 2, 2011
Time: 11:34pm (PST)
Playing on iTunes: "Soundtrack" by Yellowcard








Location: Seattle, WA
Recent Trip: 175 miles

Welcome to Seattle! We arrived around 2:30 in the morning and got a good amount of floor time. The people hosting us at Bonney Lake High School were very gracious and very welcoming. Come to find out that the band director there marched in the Cadets in 2004. That was pretty cool!

The pit found a really cool place to set up. It was right downwind of the food truck (so we smelled them making the meals which was VERY distracting, but great!). If you walked up the stairs next to the pit area and looked to the right you saw what is picture below. Beautiful Mt. Rainier. It was an unbelievable sight. To see something so far away take up that amount of space is just unreal. Funny enough, apparently the white on the mountain is ash since the mountain is a volcano.

 Today we worked a great deal on different changes in the show. Since we don't have much time to do extreme changes to the show, we're just making sure the small changes we have put in are very clean and sound good. We also did extensive work on the pit feature.


As I said, the band director at the high school marched the Cadets in 2004. He was gracious enough to cook dinner for us!! He and a few other helps made this unbelievable chicken, potato wedges and corn. Made me feel at home since it's the Fourth of July weekend and we're getting cook out food! 

Tonight we had another show. This is our last show before we start moving back east so we had to make a great final first impression to the West Coast as the 2011 Cadets. I don't know about anyone else, but this show had more energy than any show we've performed yet. There was just a wave of power and performance coming from each individual person on that field. Once I played my last note, I could do nothing else but smile because of the joy I got from that performance and the great feeling of the crowd cheering for you. One thing that really stuck with me on our walk back from the stadium was this lady was clapping for us (by herself on the sidewalk) and she said, "Thank you guys! They know what drum corps is now!!" That made me very happy that someone from the other side of the country was so happy to see us perform since usually east and west coast are kind of rivals. We have definitely had a great audience at every single performance so far but this audience definitely made us feel welcome. This is the kind of thing that makes me excited to wake up everyday.


Seattle Summer Music Games
1) The Cadets - 80.6
2) Blue Knights - 74.4
3) Cascades - 65.2


And as you can see our score keeps going up which means each and every show is getting better and better. That's the only way to be. Let's keep it going! 




Thought of the Day: "Always do your best. Anything less is unacceptable."