First Touring Day By Grace Beumler

Hi from Aberdeen!

This is Grace writing about our very first day on tour. This morning we all woke up bright and early to be at LAMB by 7:45. After some goodbyes to our family and some advice from Mr. Wooley, we were off. In our first hour in the car we talked about the show, listened to music, and talked about TV shows (such as SMASH) and how skorts are just a mullet for your butt. After one hour we all decided that we hadn't annoyed each other ...yet. We played “catch phrase”, a very quick game of vocal charades, when we discovered Ben wants to have a democratic surprise party (inside joke). We took a rest stop to run around and get some energy out. After only about a minute of being in the car, it started down raining and lightning-ing :) We had a Sound Of Music sing along to keep us occupied, because some of us (Duncan and Ben) don't really like thunderstorms.

                  We finally got to Aberdeen SD, and passed by my favorite place from last year, the Dollar Loan Center. I am very obsessed, don't ask why. I made up a song and an advertisement about it. When I saw that they also have a website, I was very excited. (go to dontbebroke.com to see) We got to our hotel, which is very nice, and discovered instead of 3 rooms with 2 beds we got 3 rooms each with 1 large bed each. Now Josie and I don't mind, but the boys were a little freaked out about sharing a bed. Duncan created a chair bed made of pillows and chairs from our room. When a little down time before our show got too long Josie and I decided to make coffee to bring to the boys. Apparently it wasn't very good. After falling off the bed we packed for our performance at Aberdeen Central High School's Thomas Kelly Theater. Josie and I both were on the tour last year, so we knew what to expect, but the boys were surprised at the size of the high school. (It's huge!) We had to set up and run through several parts of the show to adjust to the stage's levels. We had a great show for an audience of about 450. Mrs. Wooley said she heard many great things from the audience members.

                  After packing up our big Mrs. Mershmallow (our van) we went to the Dollar Loan Center once more so we could take some more pics. (see picture) After that we all decided we needed food, so we stopped at an Arby's, where we all got some sort of roast beef sandwich thing. In the car we talked about who was going to write the blog. When we got to our hotel we turned on some old re-runs of Friends and listened to Seussical music while practicing our dances.  Then I sat down and started writing this blog. It was a long, but fun first day. 1 day down...6 to go. :)

signing off,

Tracy (Grace)