ACTUALLY ON THE ROAD WITH CORPS NOW

Today is the date our carnival/mardi gras band “De Rammen” celebrates its 33rd anniversary. Have a good one everyone!

Today was also my first day to really get to work for the corps. They let me sleep in just a little bit, but then I spent most of the day on Devils Food – the food truck.

We cooked breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack today. Caught some of the rehearsal too. What a great location, with these mountains in the background!



I put on my HOLLAND T-shirt when I walked over to rehearsal. I knew Colin Meyer (the one I also met in Florida last summer – see older posts!) was rooting for Germany because of his family background, and he was hoping the World Cup finals would be The Netherlands versus Germany. Well,… I told him the “bad news”. He definitely was NOT happy.

We all agreed that Sunday on the corps’ free day in Denver we will try and look for a Sportsbar to see the Finals together. There’s plenty of Blue Devils members that love the game.
Samer, the trumpet player I mentioned earlier, has relatives in The Netherlands. He was wearing a cool Holland-shirt as well.



The show was in Ogden. Beautiful scenery on the way over there.
At the show I saw Martjan, a member of Pasveer, who is marching Seattle Cascades. Well,.. he’s not actually marching, because he plays keyboards in the pit.
I promised his dad to take some pictures. Unfortunately I missed the show performance.

Blue Devils stunned the crowd, which was a very responsive bunch! They took top honours with a score of 85.10 points. The biggest surprise of the evening was that Blue Knights beat Santa Clara Vanguard. I think that has never happened before!
After a good Ravioli snack and some free icecreams I am back on the Nest, uploading photos and texts.

Will hit the sack pretty soon! So goodnight everyone. We will be in Brighton (Colorado) the next few days, for the show in Denver this Saturday. I am very thankful to my longtime friend John Christensen for letting me use his extra computer. John is producing the Inside Blue Devils DVDs and the Blue View episodes on the BD Mediabox. I have known him for quite some years now. Great guy. And a great drinking buddy too! Well,... not yet so much this tour, because I have only just been here, but I defintiely remember some nights at some basr down the road during the 2008 tour.
For the 2008 DVDs he used a lot of my photography to go with the 5.1 recording.

Enjoy,

HK