A head above the rest

So I'm eating my tasty peanut butter and jelly sandwich, light on the jelly, and trying to figure out if Evans meant to not send us all the bass heads we needed or if its all a big joke. We've had a lot of trouble with heads because we don't have enough for all the drums. Randall has a dent the size of a baseball in his right head and its just a matter of time till it breaks. We just laid out our best show here in Oklahoma and I can't wait to hear scores. Hopefully we'll be set up well for our push into Texas before the regional in San Antonio.

More fun than a barrel of turf monkies

Holy crap...I am sitting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin "america's dairyland" wondering where the hell we left the bus in Ohio. The past week has been completely ridiculous. We've had 5 shows and one rehearsal day, some horrible bus rides, and some good and not so good housing sites. We busted out last with almost a 75 (74.7) which is a good score. At this point the minimal sleep and practicing on black tops has finally caught up with me. My legs and feet are killing me...and I really some sleep. I'm borderline falling asleep during practice. Right now however, like I said before, I just want to know where my bus is. The percussion bus air compressor went dead at about 2 AM somewhere in Ohio. It still has my freakin suitcase on it. All have is my airbed blanket and backpack. Hopefully it'll get here before the ride to Minnesota because, I certainly don't want another sleepless night on the staff bus.

Headed to Ohio

Well were in transit to Akron, Ohio and the bus is stuck in suburbia...again...for like the 500th time. in fact i'm completely used to every trip being a borderline disaster. We have bus and navigation problems all the time. I was actually looking forward to some friggin floor time but at this rate...oh well. well we saw Madison for the first time tonight...they 6 pointed us. Im furious. I'm tired of the corps having sub par shows. I hope we can figure this stuff out rather than having bad shows...

sharing is caring

So we just rolled into our housing site and guess what? Turns out were sharing the gym with Boston Crusaders. It's air matresses and sleeping bags as far as the eyes can see. We have some free time tonight in Boston so were fixin to see some fireworks. All in all the parade wasn't too bad and the night is only gonna get better.

stop...spirit time

I know It's been a while since my last post. Been Busy busy busy. It's been amazing since we headed north. The weather has been much cooler and the schools have been pretty chill. Were in Boston Mass. right now headed to a parade...which is certainly not something I'm looking forward to. We've completely revamped our balad so I'm hoping that'll help bump us up in scores.
These days in Lynn mass have been ridiculous. We've walked 10 blocks for a practice field torn down cable lines and even some police run ins.
Another day in Spirit.

stop...spirit time

Finally we left North Brunswick High School in NC. That place was truly hell. At one point I seriously thought it was raining fire on that worthless field we practiced on. We've finally made past those rehearsal days to the show day in arlington! The show for me personally was pretty solid. 67.1 was the corps overall score and drums had a 14.0 we beat Crossmen in drums but not in corps. Lili and her family came and so did Mom and Dad with Grandma Lindsay and Weezer. We were so sick in the lot. It just a matter if getting that on the field. I was so excited to get our off day in Baltimore on Sunday. Lili drove up in my car and I got to feel BA driving my car for a day. We had some delicious italian, saw toy story 3 and ate at Sullivans Steak House. It was really hard to leave Lili again. I'm
definitely getting homesick but, tour is really picking up. Another show tomorrow is just another day to kick some ass. Hopefully after this really this awful rehearsal day everyone who is sick will be kicking it tomorrow.

mmmmmm

Nothing like a 9 oz filet and baked potato on a free day. This is the reason why were able to make it so long on thrown together meals and wearing the same clothes for a week. It makes every bite of this steak that much better.

Holy crap its been so long since my last post. Between 12 and 14 hours of rehearsal leaves me so tired I rarely get the time to do anything other than sleep and drum. We have finally left Walhalla SC and just finished our first show of the season with a score of 66...point something or another...oh well. It w
as a solid first show and I had a good run. We are now headed out. It's been a good night. Next stop somewhere in West Virginia

Walhalla HS

Jeez...all days just don't give you a lot of time to do anything but eat, sleep, and practice. In any case we moved to our new housing site in Walhalla SC last Friday. It's actually been q pretty good place to stay. Unfortunately we got kicked out of the gym for basketball but, the basses found a killer room basically to ourselves whereas the rest of the corps is crammed into the cafeteria. At this point we've got everything on the field through the drum feature and the first 11 sets of the closer. Today should be interesting since were playing the half time at a little HS football game. Everything is going well can't wait to perform.

Last day in Tallulah Falls, GA

After 2 weeks we're finally leaving the YMCA camp. It was really nice...minus the rain. We got our first laundry day yesterday which was a lot of fun. The basses snagged some food at McDonald's. Still got a lot of packing to do before we roll.

workin the field

I know I didn't mention this earlier but Spirit is currently staying at the YMCA camp in Tallulah Falls, GA. Today's morning block was 25 minutes of running and 3 hours of visual on "the swamp". Though learning ballad drill was worth it my feet were not happy....another pair of socks soaked...

Rainy days...

For whatever reason Tallulah Falls, GA knows how to bring the rain...my shoes feel like I'm standing in puddles. Just another day for Spirit 2010...