hey all my lovely readers........so last weekend i got to go on choir tour. it was quite fun..thursday we left right after lunch...when we left people we already sick and it was just not good.jenna lost her voice and couldn't talk at all...meagan was shivering ..she had a fever.. so we drove the 5 hours to cedar rapids..woop dee doo..actually it wasnt that bad...i sat towards the front...annette was in front of me...kristen was across the aisle and jenna was a few seats behind me. erin and beth wanted to sit in the back..and i was fine with that...cause i liked getting two seats to myself....and yeah. i listened to some pretty cool music. then we got to the church and we set everything up. one of my favorite feelings is when we go on tour..just knowing that youre in a different state with people you may never travel with again and knownig that you are going to sing your heart out. you are going to sing your heart out and youre doing it all for HIM...youre gonna do it all for HIM and spread HIS name everywhere you go.that's the point of tour. so thursday night was definitely our best night. we had quiet time downstairs and then went up stairs and just sang....witness is by far my most favorite song..... and that night the guys were so great...they were wonderful....the beginning the guys started out and just sang so quiet..then us ladies came in and we were all happy and stuff....then you get to the part about nicodemus.."christ told nicodemus as a friend...MAN YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!" tom and ben and ethan were SOOOO great during that part..it was soo cool..i got goosebumps.. and we started singing the verse with samson....: you read about samson from his birth he was the strongest man that ever lived on earth...WAY BACK yonder in ancient times he killed ten thousand of the philistines...then old samson went a wandrin about ...samson's strength was never found out...TILL HIS WIFE SAT UPON HIS KNEE ...SHE SAID. tell me where your strength lies..(yeah) .if you please.....well old samsons wife she talked so fair..samson said..cut offa my hair. ...
so yeah..that song is amazing....i just love it. one of my favorite parts of that song is watching mr. staub's facial expressions..its soo funny cause he makes the best expressions for that song ..and i think that gets the rest of us more into it.
friday morning we sang at the elementary school for the church from the night before. also...nikki and cameron brought mrs. staub this thing that their host family made...it was this belly button brush..and it was really funny....their were tons of great stories from the night be fore and it was fun....the kids at the school really got into the songs..especially betelehemu and contad al senor...cause they had tons of instruments..and altogether they sounded really neat. they started imitating annette and ben during betelehemu like they were playing the drums on their knees..it was so cute. then we drove to CVLHS. it was a high school with only 33 students...our choir doubled their school+1..we got to the school really early so we
played games and their was shuffleboard...and erin was braiding everone's hair ...it was nice..for a while we actually got to take a break. and a ton of us played the never ending game of uno...it was staub,beth, cameron, carl, molly, aly, me and some other people all played a game of uno for EVER!!!!!!it was 40 minutes before anyone was out.! it was crazy....so yeah...then we had that concert..it wasnt too bad...saturday we went to teh mall..we got there around ten ....and jenna, annette, kristen, meagan, aly, tom,pat and timmy and i all walked to starbucks..that took forever...we were a little lost at first...but then we found our way around..we all got our coffee stufff...and then the guys and us girls split up....we went to 579, ragstock....where i bought a really cute shirt...um..where else..i dont even remember...we just ran all over the place..i bought some books from barnes and noble and also i bought soem shirts from the lovesac place...it was really neat..i got this really cute picture of tom and jenna during lunch...and us girls went to marshalls and we had some fun there...annette and i were trying on hats ..like big floofy easter hats from forever ago...when we left there we took a picture with this shark thing..tom and jenna and kristen and i all went to the nascar place and watched the cars "race" for a while. it was really neat and when mr. staub told me about it i was like yeah right...a nascar place..whatever. ok mr.staub........but actually it was really fun. after the mall we went to OCB! ..erin and i got to sit at a table all to ourselves..and we said that we were on a "date" but yeah...it was funn.we went to the hotel and went in the pool..and hottub and sauna...kristen and i went up and watched some of bruce almighty and i just hung out with tons of people that whole night. it was really exciting. on sunday morning we all got up bright and early to sing at the 8 service....it w as TOO early...the first service was not all that great. during the sermon we were falling asleep...but then during the 1030 service we redeemed ourselves and did a really great job. aunt heidi and uncle phil and the boys were there. they said they really enjoyed it and ended up talking to staub for a while. so then we travelled home sweet home. and did our home concert..that one was a little..ehhh...ok..it couldve been better but overall we all had a great time....and i was soooo tired...afterwards..
btw: jenna, annette,kristen, beth and erin and everyone else...: you guys made the choir tour the best. thanks soo much..i had a blast with you guys and without you well i probably wouldnt be in choir. you are the best friends ever! love you guys!