Greetings from beautiful Traverse City!!
We are staying at Silver Lake Elementary School and the last time Brigade stayed here was 1999. Alums from that year may remember a certain room that became decorated with post-it notes.....well - that room is now housing the staff (Guy Gregg and Matt Koscinski are very excited about staying in this room again - but they are promising not to shoot off any fireworks out the windows this time!!).
We do not travel "down and around" Lake Michigan to get to Traverse City like the old days! We drive a couple of hours to Manitowoc and catch the car ferry - the SS Badger. We are able to load our busses, truck, Durango and Big Jake for the four hour trip across the lake. On board there is a nice restaurant, snack bar, quiet area, movie theater, bingo area, gift shop - or the members might just choose to relax on deck. The trip is really pretty smooth and it is only another couple of hours to Traverse City from Ludington, MI. This sure beats the heck out of those 16-18 hour trips on school busses back in the 1980's and 1990's!!
The weather here is perfect and we will be rehearsing today from 9-5. I'm giving the members free time tonight - they deserve it for all of the hard work they put in this season. For breakfast today we had assorted cereals, pancakes ala Kurt, sausages, juice and assorted Pop Tarts and the like. The annual staff dinner is also tonight and we are all looking forward to that!!
Look for another Traverse City report tomorrow!
- Rex out
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