A Long Day

Thanks everybody for your nice comments! Last night the internet was down at the academy and I couldn't post to the blog, so I'm writing today about yesterday. I didn't do anything new yesterday - just played a whole lot!! I rode over to the complex at 9 and practiced for three hours until lunch. After lunch I took a walk in the forest - there are a lot of cool plants here. This area gets so much rain - Mike Heron told me that this region is considered a rainforest. I put the pictures that turned out at the bottom of the post. Then we had a three hour orchestra rehearsal, dinner, and then a three hour opera orchestra rehearsal. The other bass players had a sectional with Mark while Kate and I were in opera rehearsal. The opera is so cool - I recognize alot of the music from the movie Amadeus. We start rehearsing with the singers next week. I've met alot of them because they are also all staying at the academy - they are really nice. One of them severely overpacked (she would not need to make a "things I forgot" list!!) and brought a steamer, so I'm going to borrow it and get the wrinkles out of my tuxedo. I had to ball it up somewhat to fit it in my backpack. When we got back to the academy I taught some people how to play cribbage and we played a game of four-handed. It was fun, but I was so extremely exhausted!

So, here are the pics form my walk and I'll write about what happened today later.


Whale Watch, Day 6:

• I think the whale watch is going on hiatus, since I've run out of witty things to say about not seeing any whales. I'll bring it back, though :)