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Today (Thursday) I had set my alarm clock for 5:50.
Breakfast was to be served at 8 AM, and we usually take about two hours to prepare.
This morning it was French Toast. Carol Vargas remembered our translation in Dutch (wentelteefjes), especially since we had a good laugh about that last summer, when we translated it literally back into English… You can imaging what that’s like.
Last night Ingrid and Adri Zuijdervliet arrived. Their daughter Manon is marching in BD’s color guard as I wrote earlier. Adri will be driving the Cheeseball and Ingrid will assist on Devils Food.
The members also made sack-lunch, which were kept in the fried and taken to the stadium where they rehearsed at lunchtime. That meant we only had to prepare dinner for the corps today, since snack is going to be the ever popular Ice-cream bar.
Dinner was going to be Spaghetti, so after I had passed some 300 pieces of French Toast on the grill, some 38lb of ground beef had to be grilled. The best part however is seasoning it… that means I got to go wild on the spices and herbs and things. And Eldon (former food truck driver) used to tell me: “There’s never enough garlic!”… Three huge pans of grilled ground beeef on the stove, simmering away for the rest of the afternoon.
So today was a pretty easy day for us!
The full food crew was taken to Walmart for some shopping in the afternoon. Wow…. My second time to Walmart in just 5 days! I’m loving it!!!
Didn’t buy all that much, but couldn’t resist bringing a case of MGD with me to the Nest: Miller Genuine Draft… pretty good beer,.. for American standards that is…
On our way back we stopped at “Sonic” which is sort of a drive-through restaurant, but where you park your car at individual ordering boards. A girl on roller skates comes out in no time to bring your order. That was fun. We all sat out on the patio.
Back at the school we had another few hours. Already started preparing for tomorrow’s dinner. I had told the rest of the crew they will have the afternoon off, when I’m fixing stir-fry.
As I’m typing this we have just finished dinner. Many compliments on the garlic bread and the spaghetti sauce. Hope it’s not too spicy for the show tonight.
I’m in the equipment truck right now, together with Debbie Odello, Ingrid and Erik Skinner (a 2007 age-out, who is this year’s waterboy). We’re on our way to Dallas for tonight’s show. I think Devils are on last,.. ánd they’re doing “America the Beautiful” and the encore performance. Snack isn’t scheduled until 1:00 AM.
Fortunately breakfast isn’t until 10:00 AM!

Oh,... and it was only 102 degrees Fahrenheit today....

Enjoy,
HK