JULY 5 - RIVERSIDE, CA

It’s Monday already. Can’t believe how fast this all goes. After breakfast I uploaded some stuff onto the computer and internet from Jarrod’s computer, and then we (Angela and I) took off to a pre-show pool party at Mike Gurrola’s house. On the way over we stopped at the all to check out the Apple store. Unfortunately the laptop I brought from school isn’t working properly. It does accept the wifi signal and it does connect, but I don’t et onto ANY website at all. Weird! Probably some kind of setting, but I can’t change that – only the school administrator can do that.

Now I had been thinking of getting a Macbook Pro anyway, so this might be a good time. You wouldn’t believe the line outside the store though. In fact there were TWO lines, one of which was just for the new Iphone! We decided to leave, drop my luggage off at the corps and head out to that party.

That was a lot of fun! Again a lot of former Blue Devils members!! Mike has a large pool next to his house. Some of the others were playing “beer pong”. Enough to eat and especially drink at this party. The grill was on too. More and more people stopped by. I think we were little over 25. Great fun!

Jared Andrews (BD tenor 2004) gave me a ride to the stadium, where I watched some warmups. BD’s warmup always attracts quite a crowd in the lot, especially here since Riverside is sort of a “home-show”. Lots of members and alumni are from Southern California, and a lot specifically from Riverside. Many used to march in the RCC drumline. Tom Float, former drum instructor for the corps stopped by at warmup too.
At the hornline a lot of alumni were brought into the section circles to introduce themselves and talk a little about their time and years in the corps.
The show went really well! The crowd loved it, even though it’s a very unusual programme.



The original idea was to hop on tour with the corps here in Riverside tonight, but I’m only leaving tomorrow. The buses and trucks left at 11:30 PM. I stayed behind with Keith Hales (long-time driver for the corps), because there was a problem with the motorhome, and we were to return and exchange it in the morning. That gave us a good excuse to stop at Jared’s afterparty. We took the motorhome right to his house and had plenty of space to park. I think there must have been about 80 people at the party. That was cool! Again enough to drink and plenty of people to talk to, some of whom I already knew, but made a few new friends too!



By 3AM most had left, so I decided to crash in the motorhome too, because it was going to be quite a ride the next day, all the way to Cedar City, Utah.

Enjoy,

HK