Spring Trip

We (McKenzie, Clint, and I) have recently returned home from this year's marching band Spring Trip.

It was a good one, this year. We went to Williamsburg, Virginia for a Fiesta-val competition for our Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, Chorus, String Orchestra, and Varsity Guard. Fiesta-val set up all our travel arrangements, so we stayed in Great Wolf Lodge with a bunch of the other groups from around the country. The hotel was made for families, so it was fun. It had a waterpark, Magiquest, a spa, an arcade, a fitness room, some restaurants, a cafe, and other stuff.

Little kids were running around everywhere for the Magiquest, waving their wands at the conspicuously placed objects, such as plastic crystals and pictures on the walls. Kirk even said that he was woken up by children running outside his door at 4 in the morning.

We went other places, though. The first day we went to Colonial Williamsburg, which was pretty cool. A bunch of people dressed up in colonial outfits walked around and talked about life in "those days". We had to avoid a lot of horse pat on the road, though. We ate dinner at a seafood restaurant which, I might add, did not have many choices for the not-seafood-liking pesco-polo vegetarian. After that, we went back to Colonial Williamsburg for the candlelight ghost tour, which was a lady leading us through the rain on the streets of Williamsburg and telling us about all of the myths of the city. We didn't get to go in anywhere, but it was interesting.

The second day we went to Historic Jamestown, which was a museum (basically) of Jamestown. They had the original ships that sailed there and the fort that the settlers made, so it was also interesting. That night, we went to Go-Karts Plus, which was a Frankie's-Fun-Park-type place. They had four go-kart tracks (kiddie, Euro, Figure-Eight, and Stock Car), bumper boats, the "Disko", and an arcade. The go-karts were a blast, because while I am terrible at racing, it was an adventure to just not ram into the side of the person in front of you and get kicked out.

The third day we competed, played in the hotel waterpark, and went to Busch Gardens Europe for a few hours (for the Fiesta-val awards ceremony). While we were there, I didn't hang out with Briana and McKenzie (for a change), but Clint, Jason, Ted, Brandon, and Melissa. It was awesome!

The fourth day, we spent the whole time in Busch Gardens. Though the Griffon (right) there is exactly the same as SheiKra in the Florida Busch Gardens, I found it much more exciting. I also really liked Apollo's Chariot, which was a lot of weightless falling instead of ramming around and loop-de-loops.

Overall, the trip was great. We got home Monday morning at 6 o'clock and slept until 2:30 pm. It was glorious.

It's Spring Break for us right now, so we're just relaxing and stuff. We've attempted to weed the garden boxes, but who knows if that'll go anywhere.