Tour with 31

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As I write right now, I am sitting in a church in Fredricton, New Brunswick. Intersting thing though, is I've been to this church before. I came here with choir 30 and I remember so much about it. It was weird to walk through the church and remember all the things that happened the last time I was here; all good memories though.

Well as I mentioned we are in Canada, we crossed over last Sunday. I love Canada...out first stop was in Moncton, NB...another place I had also been too. In fact it is the very place Stacie joined up with us (choir 30 for the first time). I also remember the church we stayed at there as well, it was a great stay!

We are coming to a close and only have 2 more JOH concerts left, one of those being tonight and then I will head home for a bit. I'll be saying good bye to hotels and hello to host families. Good bye to fast food and buffets and hello to home cooked meals!!! Yeah! On this tour we do indeed at a lot of buffets and one of our boys is quite enthusiastic about trying new food especially if it comes from the country we are in. We went to the Ponderosa buffet the other day and there were brussel sprouts on the buffet. I would not even eat brussel sprouts I'm sure not going to make the children eat them. But Lubega went and grabbed not just one but three. I asked him "Lubega do you know what those are." To which he reponded..."no, its Canadian food and we are in Canada" So he ate them all, since they were Canadian food and we are indeed in Canada...I did not want to burst his bubble, why stop a good thing. He also loves crab legs from chinease buffets, he has a broader food spectrum than I do that is for sure!

Welp that's about all I can think of to write for now....

At it again!

I guess I could update this a little better, now that I have time. I remember when I started tour...I would sit down one a week and update this blog as tour progressed I became pretty consistant in updating it once a month. However towards the end of tour I just fell off the map when it came to blogging...sorry about that one.


Well it is hard to believe that its been over a month since I sent all my children back home. I will just be honest with you all and say...that was not an easy thing to do. I don't think you are ever fully prepared to say good bye to 33 people you love so dearly. Its so true that we truly were like a family. Of course there are times you get frustrated to the enth degree with people, even the children, yet you never lose your love for that person. I can truly say any frustrations or problems I had on the road are gone and worth nothing and I truly miss every child and every chaperone more than words could describe. They say when a woman gives birth there is a hormone released that allows her to forget a lot, not all mind you, but a good deal of the pain of child birth. The end of tour is like that hormone. You say good bye to all the chlidren and all the other chaps and while you remember the hard times and struggles the times of laughter and joy far out weigh them all. We'll call it the end of tour hormone.


We said good bye and parted ways on December 27th. The children plus David and Beth all headed out that day. Barb, Jenny, Terse, Stacie and I all stayed in a hotel that night. After we said good bye the five of us got a hotel and then a cab and went to down town New York. We went to rockafeller center and then to dinner. Walked into all of one store and then all decided to head back to the hotel. No lie I think we were back by 11...the next day we all parted ways as well. I will not lie it was sad and hard. I think the first week or two or three or four I was back home I struggled with being depressed. Although I was glad to see everyone, it was hard because I had been touring and living life by a schedule and in a bus with 33 other people and then came back home to a some what quiet room and no schedule...I did not know what to do. The time I did get to spend with family and friends was great though. For my birthday my mom through a little get together at El Fenix and then Sarah Estes invited some people to play games at her house...I enjoyed and was blessed by all of that.


I have been so blessed to be part of choir 30, I can not put it into words. I miss them all teribly. I have been able to keep up with them a bit...Beth, David and Rosette, Mwai and Abraham let us know how the kids are doing. For those of you who have asked how are Beth, David and Rosette doing...I think they are all doing well. Beth made me a bit jealous by telling me all the Kenyan food she was eating one night, David is up and working and Rosette has been very active with her church. Barb, Jenny, Terese and Vic are going to meet Stacie and myself in Illinois at the end of this month.

Stacie and I decided we would tour again so we are both now out on the road with choir 31. One of our stops is in Illinois, Jenny's home state. Vic, Terese and Barb are all flying in to Illinois to stay with Jenny, see the choir and see us as well. Ironically enough...all three of them will be on the same flight for the last leg...to funny eh? Vic coming from Calgary, Barb from Winkler, MB and Terese from Washington state will all arrive at the same time on the same flight for Jenny. Jenny that makes your job of picking them up pretty easy eh?



Well as I said, Stacie and I are on the road again. We left early in the morning on the 25th of January. We both had the same flight out of DFW it was at 7...PS I dislike early morning flights. We arrived and hit the ground running. We arrived in North Carolina, the entire choir picked us up, bus and all. Then we traveled about an hour and a half and picked up Julia. After picking everyone up, we headed for the hotel. We had an early bed time and a full day the next day. The next day, was happy birthday to you here is 12 hours of rehearsals...that might be a bit exagerative but close. The time flew by however and it was fun. Sharye made the announcement it was my birthday on the bus and so everyone sang to me. PSS...I dislike the happy birthday song...all you can do is sit there while everyone sings to you...We had dinner at the golden corral and there someone also mentioned it was my birthday...ergo the song was song yet again and this time I had to stand up. My birthday was nice, thank you all for the phone calls and texts. The next day was our first concert which I have to say went off rather well. Since then we have preformed in GA and FL and after Florida I believe we are heading to AL. We are hitting all the southern states and that's exciting because many of them I have not been to. This tour is different then the church tours it is honestly like a broadway type production. My main responsibility on this tour is Assistant Stage Manager and when it switches back over to the church tour I'll be the admin yet again.


I will try to keep you all updated. May the Lord bless you as you go throughout your day or night!

At it Again!!!

Wow! I guess its been quite awhile since I've updated this blog. Tonight might not be the best update; we are all watching American Idol at the same time. Well I guess I will start with the last few months of choir 30. I guess the last place I left off was when I forgot what county I lived in when the President asked me. Well since then life has been just as busy. There is a base house in Carolina that is just amazing! We were able to spend 3 weeks at this house, it was amazing! We were able to spend amazing quailty time together. I have to say it was my best time with the kids ever. There was a trampoline at the base house and I had so much fun. After the base house we headed for Baltimore where we had a 3 week run of a Christmas show. At the end of that we headed to a small place in New York for our final Camp together. I enjoyed our last camp so much, just hanging out in the snow with our kids. They all recieved a suitcase full of clothes extra to go home with, they were thoroughly excited. The kids went home on December 27th and since then have began school. I miss them all so much!


After a night in New York with the girls I headed back home December 28th! I think the first week at home was surreal for me. About 8 or 9 days later I recieved a call from Marci our choir manager. She asked if I wanted to head back out on the road and so here I am helping out with choir 31.

Sorry this is so short. I don't know when I'll have another chance to write...but we are about to play dutch blitz! Hope you are all doing very well...hope to write a better update soon!!!