This is pretty special so I'm going to do the blog in two separate posts so that I don't overload photo upload capabilities!
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Thank You Doug Plourde!
He sent nine great pictures of the WCS Marching Band on parade in Washington, D.C.!
He sent nine great pictures of the WCS Marching Band on parade in Washington, D.C.!
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The following note from the Band "correspondent" appears on the Music Boosters' website:
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The following note from the Band "correspondent" appears on the Music Boosters' website:
Hi
We are having a great time!!! I wish that we could share pictures of our parade on Wednesday, and our trip to the beach today but the Hotel’s internet connection is not working. This post is being completed from a lobby computer.
The Parade was AWSOME!!!!! More people than we have ever seen at one parade and we have since heard many great comments from people that saw the whole thing. The parade was followed by a brief visit to a medical cooling station where several of our students spent a little time cooling down. They collapsed just as they left the parade route. We returned to the hotel so that they could shower and get cleaned up. The SIX lanes of Constitution Avenue, which served as the parade route, were very hot.
The remainder of our day included a pizza lunch in the hotel lobby, a shortened tour of the site around Washington D.C. (Downtown was closed for the fireworks), Dinner at the ESPN Zone, and the national fireworks over the Washington Monument.
The Parade was AWSOME!!!!! More people than we have ever seen at one parade and we have since heard many great comments from people that saw the whole thing. The parade was followed by a brief visit to a medical cooling station where several of our students spent a little time cooling down. They collapsed just as they left the parade route. We returned to the hotel so that they could shower and get cleaned up. The SIX lanes of Constitution Avenue, which served as the parade route, were very hot.
The remainder of our day included a pizza lunch in the hotel lobby, a shortened tour of the site around Washington D.C. (Downtown was closed for the fireworks), Dinner at the ESPN Zone, and the national fireworks over the Washington Monument.
The FIREWORKS were SPECTACTULAR!!!!!
Thursday we traveled to Cape Henlopen State Park on the coast of the Delaware. The grouped spent 6 hours playing and picnicking under a private pavilion and section of the beach. At 6:00 the band found that their director, along with a couple of chaperones, were pretty darn good at flipping hamburgers and hotdogs. With approximately 100 burgers, 64 hotdogs, tossed salads, chips, watermelons and pickles the group sat down together for dinner. Desert was provided by a sheet cake that was inscribed with “W.C.S. ROCKS D.C.”. Friday is our last day we are modifying thing a little to include a stop at a few monuments downtown. Our arrival home time will likely change to 10:30 pm. We will have the kids call when we are about one hour away. |
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For the usual blog stuff, see "Friday - continued!"
