I know who I want to take me home

Band Trip

Just got back from band trip yesterday.
Bad News:It was a national Competition
Good News: We placed 1st
Better News: I recieved an award that says, out of every person that was there, that played my same instrument ( even in the other bands) I was the best. So there for. I r the bestest ContraBass Clarinet Player in the nation. (ok I doubt it was the WHOLE nation, but its nice to think so)

Wednesday night we left and it was a 8-10 hour bus ride. It was horribly long. I didnt sleep. Everyone else around me slept, and it was nice every couple of hours Emmaleigh would wake up and we'd talk for about 2 hours and then she'd go back to sleep. There are some of the most BEAUTIFUL mountain scenes I have ever seen. I'm not even kidding. It was gorgeous. So we finally get back to civilization around 8 am. we stop at a gas station to change clothes. We get back on the bus for another hour to drive for breakfast. We eat at a place called Shoneys. I ate a bowl of cereal. 6 bucks? wtf mate? we got back on the bus for about another half hour. We eventaully get to our hotel. My and my 2 room mates were on the 4th floor, cliff and his roomates in the room next to us, and Amber and her roomates right below us on the 3rd floor (remember those facts for later) We take a shower, and stuffs. We head back out and we go into a town. very small town, but many cool things. Not much detail there. We get back on the bus around 3 o clock. We head back to the hotel to hang out for another hour and get ready for dinner (we had to dress nice) so I wore khaki dress pants and a blue button up shirt. and my hat with all the pins (yeah try and take that away from me punks) so we go to dinner, lo' and behold we had to jump through hoops for dinner. we had to wait an hour before we could even be seated. so we listened to some horrible people sing. It was called "the Dixie Stampede" well we finally get seated in this huge arena area. and we watch this civil war thingy. They do a bunch of competitions to see who wins and blah blah blah ( keep in mind we were in the south ( tennessee)) we were on the north side, so we cheered for the north. We had to eat out dinner with our hands. they gave us a whole chicken,potatos, bread, soup, pork, corn on the cob. and then some thingy for desert. it was pretty cool. We go back to the hotel, and play around for an hour or two. Me and cliff get bored and we start talking. Amber comes into the room and starts to hang out with us. Well.. she had left her pictures in my room. So me and cliff go and play mission impossible, running down the hallways, and going down the elevator, we snuck past the security gaurd and returned her pictures. Once we are forced back into our own rooms and lights are out. I make a clever plan to send amber an note. except I cant leave my room. so I go out on the balcony of our room, and I put a message in a bottle, and tie duct tape around it... to swing it into her balcony. I get it in there *YES!* so, then ryan wants to send one to his girlfriend. Yeah... OK... we were out of tape.. so we were trying to get becca ( who was in ambers room) to throw the bottle and tape back up, there were 3 of us in our room trying to catch the bottle, and cliff and his roommates watching us on their balcony eating cookies. well becca is trying to toss it up, and then the security gaurd walks outside, all me and my roomates see him first, ryan runs into our room, laughing his ass off. I drop to the ground, and army crawl into the room, our other room mates toe got stuck in a crack, so he just plainly fell... cliff and his roomates all run for the door at once, and end up running into each other and spilling cookies everywhere. becca being oblivious didnt notice the gaurd untill he flashed his flashlight at her. Busted.

Well she only got a warning, and someone stole the guards report from the door or the conductor.

The next day we woke up early and went to breakfast, at a pancake house. It was really good. Except ryan freaking out. I started talking in a southern accent on accident when i was approached by a southern lady. We then proceeded to eat lunch and walk around somemore... oh my god... I found this huge ball beAring that was on top of some water. I swear I sat there for 15 minutes spinning it. we then had our band competition. We roxord! we went back to the hotel, and prepared to go on a hike. We drove about an hour with a tour guide, up a mountain. my ears popped. I talked to amber pretty much the whole way. I cant remember all the conversations but they were funny. We got to about 6644 ft. then we got off the bus and hiked up to the top of the mountain. it was hard... but awesome. Emmaleigh was my walking buddy. We got to the top, and took pictures and all that good stuff... it was awesome. and very pretty. on the way down, emmaleigh fell.. poor emmaleigh. We got back on the bus, talked to amber somemore, ears popped some more. so We finally get back to the hotel.. and have to get ready for dinner! *whew this is long* have to dress nicely again. Amber insisted that I wear my pink dress up shirt so we can match. So I did. We went to this Black Bear Jamburee thingy. where I sat at a table with emmaleigh, amber, chrstian, new kid number 2, and vincent. They played alot of comedy stuff, but they sang some songs too. they sang songs from broadway shows, and dances. They pulled Katie up on stage and danced the Twist with her. She had a short skirt on though, so I felt bad at that. well when she got off stage, I stole her cowboy hat, and gave her my hat with the pins. I wore that cowboy hat for the rest of the trip (thats right I was wearing a girls cowboy hat). We eventually left there and we went on a Wally World run (wal-mart). Me and ryan picked up these big blue buckets for our baskets, and RAN around the store, picking up survival supplies (pop, cheezits, kool-aid....etc) I had just grabbed the cheetos when this girl turned the corner right in my way as I was running so I stopped. and didnt say anything. she looks at me with such a disgusted look, and says "uh, excuse YOU" so I stood there, and gave her the absolutely funniest look ever. then I ran. We get back to the hotel, and Stephanie ( a senior) was told by a chaperone to make sure everyone picks up their trash, well Thomas(new kid number two) was back talking and giving her shit. As we were getting off one of the chaperones stops me and yells at me "you were being very rude to stephanie so you better have cleaned up" so I flatly told her "It wasn't me(at this point I showed her the trash I picked up) so dont blame me for something I didnt do" she proceeded "I dont care, you were very rude--" that set me off "look lady I told you it wasnt me so get off my back" and I got off the bus, and told my Band conductor the nature of th events. The chaperone didnt bug me the rest of the trip. Once we got into the hotel room (cliff was in my room for some reason) ryan was putting away pop, and thomas was standing there with a bag. I opened up on him. (just an hour before this emmaleigh had told me how I was her favorite because I had kept such a happy attitude during the whole trip) but I opened up on him. I started bitching about he must be trying to fuck things up and etc etc. I FORCED him to go apologize to stephanie for being a dick, i even escorted him. We got back, ryan looked at me "oh my god, I so saw that comming, I have been waiting this whole trip for you to snap". Well lights out came and I snuck onto the porch and the security gaurd was standing right outside, looking at our 3 balconies. I didnt get to send another note, because once he went inside, another gaurd showed up.

SATURDAY MORNING... jesus this is long. We woke up and had breakfast at the hotel. we them loaded all of our stuff and got on the bus, we went to DollyWood. a theme park. We rode a couple of rides, and then Right when I was at the very peak of the ferris wheel. the stop it. I'm just like "wtf?" and it starts downpouring. So Im up there and its raining, and then they start going backwards.. they were letting people off. they let the people behind me off... then start going forward again.... letting the people infront of me off. so basically I got twice as wet as everyone. So I was soaked, and it didnt really matter, So I just stood in the rain, rather than under a roof. We rode a couple more rides, and I eventually split off and hooked up with Becca R. Katie ( the one that got on stage... she as wearing my hat, and I was wearing the cowboy hat) we went and rode a roller coaster. I did everything but sleep through the first one. the second one. was freaky as hell. I sat next to katie. There was a drop that you couldnt see the bottom, and you couldnt see the tracks. It was hilarious. I saw us comming up on the drop, and I was just like "oh shit oh shit *holds out my hand* katie grabbed my hand, and we rode the rest of the ride. Luckily, i didnt squeeze her hand to hard ( i asked if I did). Yeah I'm a big softy.... I was scared I'll admit that. I know... leave me alone.. lol... so we eventually leave the park.. after being there for... oh.... 7 HOURS. We go to a nascar speedway. and we race go karts. this little kid cut me off on the track. I was so pissed. He ran to the same track as me and cliff after wards and guess who won?! MATT DID. BOOYA. It was raining so I was skidding all around the track, it was hilarious. but because it started to rain, they gave us 30 tokens to do with what we will. me and cliff shot a couple of deer of Dee Hunter, but then we found this game... by the end of it. we . we combined ours with another kid to have nearly 3000 tickets, and we just loaded it all. We bought so much small crap. I asked the lady "you spazzing out yet?" she told me "just a little" it was fun. We then found a simulator. they had manual shifters. oh my god. it was awesome. I took emmaleigh as my passenger and we raced other people. I got 3rd place, because I forgot to press the clutch once when I shifted and I stalled out. We then started on our way home after that.

We stopped on the way to get food. that took roughly an hour or two. so it was 9-10 pm before we got started driving. at 1 am we stopped at a rest stop. at 2 am we stopped to re-fuel, where.. because I'm such a gentleman I lent Donna my jacket because she had forgotten hers and was wearing a tantop. The same deal on the bus ride... I stayed awake... every couple of hours emmaleigh would wake up, sit next to me and we'd talk. We got home, unloaded all that jazz. FINALLY the trip was over. holy crap.

Monday (today) Katie never gave me my hat back untill band hour. She gave it back, and oh my god. it smelled. wonderful. I loved it. she said some of her perfume spilled on it. GGAAAHH thats enough to drive a guy insane. I refused to put it on, and smelled it the rest of the day.
YUP THATS IT... oh my god that was long.

Bought rachel this crystal horse thingy. Cassie a carebear ( they didnt have any nascar stuff at the nascar place) and then bekah a shot glass) We also spammed rachel with zillions of calls. We spammed bekah too... but with not nearly as much as rachel.

posted by Matt @ 4:33 PM