Sunday, October 20, 2019

the Promise of Gold

The River Falls Wildcats marching band departed from the school at 4:30pm on Friday. We drove to the Eau Claire mall for dinner. I ate with band mom's Emily and Lynn and did a little shopping for a jacket because the weather was looking a little cooler than I had anticipated. We got back on the buses and headed to Palmyra High School to set up camp in the gym. I set up in the gym with all the kids. I didn't anticipate getting any sleep at all, but was pleasantly surprised to get about 6 hours of sleep.

Waking up Saturday, the chaperones prepared breakfast and the brass players practiced to play to a full crowd of sleeping kids in the gym. At 9am, the kids ate our breakfast of pancakes, eggs and fruit. Then, they went out to practice for several hours and the chaperones went for an invigorating walk. The band came back in at 4pm for pulled pork sandwiches, chips and baked potatoes. Then it was time to load buses for the competition! We drove to UW Whitewater, did our warmups and then took the field at 8:30pm. The crowd was very responsive to our show. An entire band that was observing stood up and chanted "We love your band, we love your band!". It was a flawless performance!

We then got all the props off the field and the band went and took photos. Next we went to the buses to get uniforms off and clothing on. Lastly we went to see the last two exhibition bands perform. The AAAA band performed and they blew our minds... they took the field and owned it. The UW Whitewater band didn't do as well as the top high school band. 

Then they gave awards to the A bands--Baldwin-Woodville won their division! We cheered enthusiastically. 

Next up were the AAA awards. River Falls was named top percussion, top visual performance and top musical performance. They ended up winning the competition with a score of 90.563. 

After the big win, we departed for the Palmyra High School to dine on Rocky Rococo and stay up really really late. I went to bed at about 1:30 and Anders stayed up until 4:30 am. It was an excited and amazing day. 

with my FAVORITE tuba player

serving with the fun group of band Mommas

dancing around while serving

Getting ready to take the field

with my loco friend, Lynn while we were doing our chaperone work

The state's best percussion

the tremendous picolo and trumpet feature

the mind blowing trombone feature

the cake for the team

the drum majors and guard captains with the hardware

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