Monday, July 25th
We pulled into Wakeland Highschool at about 6AM. The food truck had arrived about 2 hours before and needed to be unloaded. When we arrived we found that the refrigeration unit was not working again and the temperature in the unit was climbing. This has happened before and so it was met with much consternation and it also meant that the snack we had planned, left overs, would have to be changed for something else. Not having reliable refrigeration really puts a cramp in planning and preparing meals. We dispatched Jay, the transportation manager, to fetch us syrup, fresh milk, and margarine so we could serve pancakes for breakfast and then figure out lunch, dinner and snack. (Snack is the meal we prepare at the show venue after the kids perform. They are hungry and usually facing a good long ride. They usually will not have eaten since 5PM and they usually go on pretty late, so having snack at 11PM is not unusual). Patti got a plan together: we had "Mexican Lasagna" for lunch - a recipe she created from another recipe. It was basically a layering of grilled chicken, Mexican rice, cheese and salsa. It was very popular with the kids, who are burning roughly the equivalent number of calories as an NFL running back when they play 3 games in a day. Dinner was a bit simpler, Philly Cheese Steaks with spaghetti salad.
We were able to get all this together but some of the ingredients arrived late from the store and so lunch was pushed back in time, which causes a ripple to all the other schedules for the day. It was all worked out and a very good lunch was served and the schedule only minimally impacted.
During the time after lunch and before dinner, the corps goes to ensemble practice. This is where all the different parts of the corps come together and do run through of the show, or parts of it. It was HOT. I mean as hot an I have ever felt. I started to walk the 100 yards or so of white concrete to where the corps was doing ensemble and when I arrived, I was spent and there was not a lick of shade. I could only watch for about 30 seconds before I headed back, unable to remain in the sun any longer. I pretty much went straight to the showers and cold drinks. I had been outside in that 105 degree heat all day. After a shower and a little time to drink some water, i felt much better.
Dinner was next and after that the mad packing of EVERYTHING starts, you see we leave the housing site and head to the show site where we do a very quick setup and then after the show, we server the snack. We had mozzarella sticks with marinara dipping sauce. We cooked 1,600 of them and I think we had about 60 left over.
The Cadets had a pretty good show and won the competition with a score of 90.7. I got the feeling that they are looking to fix a few things in the show and expect their scores to rise if they are able to do it. We have a very busy week coming up, with the Corps facing the top corps in the next week. Here is a shot of the angels taking the field.
We pulled into Wakeland Highschool at about 6AM. The food truck had arrived about 2 hours before and needed to be unloaded. When we arrived we found that the refrigeration unit was not working again and the temperature in the unit was climbing. This has happened before and so it was met with much consternation and it also meant that the snack we had planned, left overs, would have to be changed for something else. Not having reliable refrigeration really puts a cramp in planning and preparing meals. We dispatched Jay, the transportation manager, to fetch us syrup, fresh milk, and margarine so we could serve pancakes for breakfast and then figure out lunch, dinner and snack. (Snack is the meal we prepare at the show venue after the kids perform. They are hungry and usually facing a good long ride. They usually will not have eaten since 5PM and they usually go on pretty late, so having snack at 11PM is not unusual). Patti got a plan together: we had "Mexican Lasagna" for lunch - a recipe she created from another recipe. It was basically a layering of grilled chicken, Mexican rice, cheese and salsa. It was very popular with the kids, who are burning roughly the equivalent number of calories as an NFL running back when they play 3 games in a day. Dinner was a bit simpler, Philly Cheese Steaks with spaghetti salad.
We were able to get all this together but some of the ingredients arrived late from the store and so lunch was pushed back in time, which causes a ripple to all the other schedules for the day. It was all worked out and a very good lunch was served and the schedule only minimally impacted.
During the time after lunch and before dinner, the corps goes to ensemble practice. This is where all the different parts of the corps come together and do run through of the show, or parts of it. It was HOT. I mean as hot an I have ever felt. I started to walk the 100 yards or so of white concrete to where the corps was doing ensemble and when I arrived, I was spent and there was not a lick of shade. I could only watch for about 30 seconds before I headed back, unable to remain in the sun any longer. I pretty much went straight to the showers and cold drinks. I had been outside in that 105 degree heat all day. After a shower and a little time to drink some water, i felt much better.
Dinner was next and after that the mad packing of EVERYTHING starts, you see we leave the housing site and head to the show site where we do a very quick setup and then after the show, we server the snack. We had mozzarella sticks with marinara dipping sauce. We cooked 1,600 of them and I think we had about 60 left over.
The Cadets had a pretty good show and won the competition with a score of 90.7. I got the feeling that they are looking to fix a few things in the show and expect their scores to rise if they are able to do it. We have a very busy week coming up, with the Corps facing the top corps in the next week. Here is a shot of the angels taking the field.
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| Liam in his travelling clothes |
The Cadets had the encore tonight and George tells me that the corps that goes on second to last always gets the encore. Their encore was fantastic and I recorded it, but my bandwidth is limited, so I will need to link to the video later.
Uncle Matt
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