Today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday. Thursday, departure day, is COMING. And, a little too quickly for comfort. ;-)

Thankfully, the dreary rainy day didn’t deter us from making progress with our trip preparations. The monster sound mixing board, which is being given to a church on our trip, was hauled out of the ’office’ and is resting on our living room floor. The road case for it is 4’ x 4’ x 2’. It’s like a giant blue coffee table.
: D We washed laundry, packed bags, cleaned the bus, washed sheets, and hung the coolest green rope lights in the bunk area today. Now we’ll look like a spaceship cruising down the highway. 8-) Ok, not really.

In case anyone is wondering, the concert on Saturday with our new material went GREAT! We got there hours early and got some presets done.



One song was really slow and Vincent got down on his knees so he was shorter than the kids in the front row. We all ended up on our knees in a row SWAYING to the music. It was so hilarious I couldn’t finish the song….Vincent grabbed the camera…

By this time I wasn’t smiling!


Now I’m laughing and Bonnie doesn’t want to be seen…..LOL.



The really cool thing is I recorded the whole concert on my laptop. : D I got to hear the part where I sang over Matthew’s mandolin solo. Oops. :-/ He graciously forgave me after the concert. We had a few other quirky spots but over all we thought it went very well. Oh and Bonnie’s new yodeling song was really super. 8-)

It is interesting to hear the concert from a listeners point of view. Now I know what people are talking about when they say I need to sloooow down when I talk.

I should go get some sleep or something….too bad I had all those chocolate muffins earlier….lol

That sure was a lame post. (See last post.) I’ll try not to let that happen again. ;-)

Our lives should be speeding up with the upcoming trip nearly upon us, but we‘re all surprisingly calm, cool, and collected. Ha! Crunch time is next week. Anyway, this will be trip number, um, I don’t remember which number! I know this is the 4th winter trip we’ve made. The first one we only sang a handful of times and stayed mostly at Auntie Val’s house in Florida. :-) Swimming in the pool, hanging out with our cousins, going to tag sales, taking test promo pictures - we had a great time!

I dug up some pics of that trip and scanned them. We thought these were just test pics so we weren’t too concerned about smiling. :-)





This was three years ago?


Vincent, Peter, Bonnie, Carol

We’re working on new songs for this trip and we’re going to give them a test run this Saturday. *bites finger nails*

And I have a cold, it’s not too fun. :-P It’s creeping on slowly, those are the worst kind…lol I AM following the advice of apple cinder vinegar twice a day in warm water. I’m still not brave enough for the garlic in there, too. The cider stings that back of my throat (mom said it’s killing germs!) and of course I make lovely cringing faces accompanied with moaning and groaning. :D Maybe the later is a slight exaggeration. ;-)

Here is a bonus pic, the beginning of the MacDonald Family Singers in 1992.


Till next time...