Day Off!! (Almost)

I'm getting behind on my posts! I'm writing now about Sunday. In the morning we had an opera rehearsal, which was so bad!! I was really out of it, and I think the rest of the orchestra was, too. I got up early and did a load of laundry, so I wore my pajama pants to rehearsal - haha! It was the first rehearsal with the singers. We aren't doing the whole opera actually - we are cutting the recitatives. The orchestra is on stage on the side and the opera is staged on the other side. Putting an opera together in 8 days is pretty nuts! The singers just got their parts two weeks before they got here.

On the bus ride to the academy from rehearsal we were talking with Ali - she was organizing a kayaking trip for later in the day! I was thinking of practicing for my seating audition instead (it was today - Monday), but decided to go kayaing instead. A group of eight of us went. The guy who drove the bus let us borrow his van to drive there! It was in Lund, which is a little north of Powell River. The picture on the left is Ray and Jared (bass players), and on the right is Ali, Patrick, Marissa and Laura (flute, cello, harp, trombone). We got four double Kayaks - it cost about $25 Canadian for three hours. The kayaks were really nice - they had rudders that worked with foot pedals. Here is us trying out the kayaks on land (I didn't bring my camera 'cause I didn't want to get it wet). In the right kayak is Christine - she drove the van also (and plays violin). Kayaking was so much fun! I was in the back, so I steered the rudder with my feet. Christine and I were really good at paddling - we kept on getting ahead of everyone :). We saw tons of jellyfish (we were kayaking in a cove in the ocean), crabs, seals (just their heads popped up), and bald eagles! We went around some small islands in the cove and then came back.

After kayaking we drove to the Laughing Oyster - it was a really nice restaurant in Lund. I had salmon and prawns, some Chilean red wine, and pecan pie for desert. It was so good! The restaurant had a great view of the sunset over the mountains/ocean, too. Here is a picture of us after dinner. I always get such bad red-eye!

After we got back I practiced for a few hours for my audition. I'll write about that tomorrow - It's late and I'm tired!