BORING CROWD

except for some fans...

At the show in Murfreesboro there was quite a large crowd filling the stands, but they were boring as hell, absolutely non-responsisve! And that’s amazing, for I remember very well our JUBAL tour back in 2002. Our first show Stateside was in Murfreesboro,… the exact same stadium. I thought the crowd’s reactions to our performance and that of the top-DCI corps was pretty good then.
I talked to some of the Blue Devils members after the show and they had the same feeling. Hardly any reaction from the crowd doesn’t help them much in getting a better performance on the field. That’s too bad. Sure it will be much better in the Georgiadome tomorrow in Atlanta.

We left Lebanon (TN) after a three day stop there. As I wrote below, the place was dead at night. We did go back to that same bar the second night though. Was even more fun than the first. This time Andres and Keith came along. We took the bus (The Hound), so one of us didn’t drink. (Thanks Jay Glenn!) Everyone else more than made up for that though!! Rum-Coke for $5.25 and Draft beers $2, a full pitcher of beer only $6! Jaegerbombs on the other hand were outrageously expensive! But that didn’t keep us from having a few.
We told a few jokes too. That was fun! I should say it’s hard to translate some jokes though. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense in another language.

This last day in Lebanon it rained quite a bit. Most of the corps’ rehearsal was inside. We served food in the school cafeteria as well. They did finish rehearsal with a full runthrough.
Coincidentally the local High School Band is also named “the Blue Devils”. The promo trailer was opened up Thursday night for the kids of the High School and numerous parents that had shown up to attend rehearsal (thinking it would be a full performance in unform – as was announced in the local paper). Some of the corps members also bought shirts from the marching band. It had a large print on the back, saying “Blue Devil Pride”. Pretty cool!

Blue Devils once again played really well at Murfreesboro. They took a 1.3 lead over The Cavaliers. Carolina Crown has been making incredible progress these last few years and are now right there among the top! With Devils Food we put another couple of interesting meals out. Some of the food is so much different from what we are used to having back home. We fix things so much differently. They all enjoy our meals too though. Gives them some variety.

We also celebrated driver Jay Glenn’s birthday. He was the head chef of the day. He made French Toast for breakfast, and Lasagna for dinner. That was pretty good actually! I think he took over our habits of touching up the food with some spices.

I made two Pineapple Upside Down cakes. Had never made those before. They turned out really nice. I should remember that for back home. Also made a special birthday cake, which is the funniest cake I have made so far. A rectangular three-layer cake with grape jelly in between, fully covered in white icing and texts in blue icing.

I made a bus out of cake as well and put it up straight on top. Then decorated the whole thing with blue icing. That cake was a big hit!

Enjoy,

HK