Saturday, February 13, 2016

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Today was another magical day.  Our tour group visited Universal Studios today, which has many fun attractions.  My personal favorite was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which made you feel like part of the actual movie.


Above: Senior Nisha Alberts prepares to ride the Hogwarts express.



Above: Seniors Julia Lambert, Natasha DaRosa, Liam Morgan, and Nate Doro enjoying ice cold butter beer.

The park also offered various items from the famous book and movie series, one of which being the delicious butter beer as seen above.  With multiple fast pace rides, and cute little window shops, it was a truly magical way to spend a truly magical day.

"Here [We] Leave Today and Enter the World of Yesterday, Tomorrow and Fantasy"

 Day two started off with an early, but not as early as yesterday, wake up call. My roommates and I all had packed our concert attire the night before so we were ready to rock and roll out to breakfast when the time came. Soon enough it was departure time and we all loaded our buses to hit up Disney's Magic Kingdom.

We ferried over the lake and we were met with the classic Disney picture: Cinderella's Castle







We got inside the park and immediately started going on rides. My group got through three rides before the orchestra kids had to bid adieu to the choir kids and get to our rehearsal.

We eventually got settled in with our instruments and then it was time for the wind to blow in. It was quite blustery and kept blowing our sheet music every which way. The Disney crew, like always, had a fix prepared already. We used fiberglass sheets to keep our music down so we could also read the music. 

We roamed around Disney Springs for awhile before attending the choir's concert.  We found some of the highest quality food trucks I have ever had the opportunity to eat. The choir preformed beautifully and they sang one of my personal favorites, "Light One Candle" by Peter, Paul and Mary. The soloists also did such a fabulous job on the Gospel tune! If you didn't watch the choir's performance, I would strongly suggest that you go watch it at your earliest convenience. 


We left back to Magic Kingdom but before we could even get everyone on the bus, a black cat crossed the street and not too far behind was Mr. Teague bounding after it. We went directly to Splash Mountain when we got back which was a great choice. The rest of Magic Kingdom is a bit of a blur because it all went so fast but my favorite part was buying Mickey Mouse shaped ice cream and Minne Mouse ears. 

There were some technical difficulties with the fireworks so we left to go to the ferry. We ended up lounging on the ferry and watched some of the fireworks from there and there was a floating light show. Today was definitely just as great as yesterday, it was so fun!



Cups of coffee I drank today: 4
Steps taken today: 26,463 (phew!)

10 Sparkly Minnie Mouse ears out of 10 Sparkly Minnie Mouse ears!


Con Allegrezza (with livliness)
Beth

Friday, February 12, 2016

Magic Kingdom Fun!

Happy Birthday, Will and Krista!



Today we celebrated Will and Krista's birthdays! There's not a better place to celebrate your birthday than Disney World - the happiest place on earth!

Magic Kingdom and Performance Day

Today the choir and Orchestra woke up bright and early to go to Magic Kingdom.  We were there for a couple hours and then left to go perform and Disney Springs.  Both the choir and Orchestra did amazing!  After that both choir and orchestra went back to Magic Kingdom and spent the rest of the day there.  It was such a good day and everyone had loads of fun!  Here is a picture of Mike Davis, a concert choir bass/baritone, in front the Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom.  Cannot wait for tomorrow at Universal Studios!

Performance Day! #WeAreDGN #D99Learns

The D99 Orchestra and DGN Choirs had two wonderful performances today at the Waterside Stage in Disney Springs! Congratulations, musicians!

Magic Kingdom

It is currently 2;00 pm here in sunny Florida and our traveling company just enjoyed our morning in the Magic Kingdom.
Above: students see Cinderella's Castle for the first time.

With sunny weather, and a fun but relaxing morning, I am sure we will all perform well at today's concert!