Hey Y'all!
I'm back! I've been SO busy the last few weeks with concerts, recitals, auditions, orchestra parties, packing, going to Illinois for family camp etc. But it's been fun!
May 18th was the busiest day in the history of ever.
Gabrielle, Mom and I left about 8am to head to a camp audition an hour away.
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| This is us loading up after the audition, which went well! |
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Next we went to one of my violin student's house so I could give her a lesson. Usually she comes to my house, but I was really close to her place so...why not?
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| This would be Gabrielle in the back of our van...yes...practicing. In her words "The acoustics aren't so great back there." |
Next we went to a little Polish grocery store we had just found. It's amazing just walking in and seeing all the food and smelling the smells, it brought back a ton of memories of Poland. Even a certain packet of baking soda brings memories back. (Smelling the smells??)
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| And can I just say Polish candy is way better than the American stuff. I scored a Prince Polo. Best thing ever! |
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| And Gabrielle got this weird strawberry thing that she says wasn't that great. |
Next was lunch at Culver's!
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| Root beer and cheese curds, yumm-o. |
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| This is us early for another audition so we watched a movie on my Ipad to kill some time.\ | | | |
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Next up: Violin competition audition! Gabrielle and I both were competing against 8 other people, two of them really good friends of ours so it was a
little weird. But. We arrived early and Gabrielle and I's audition was about 45 minutes apart so we just hung in the warm up room with our friends.
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| These two crazy guys! |
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| Mom and Gabrielle waiting. |
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| And even though our day wasn't even half over yet, we all felt this way. |
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| We decided not to waste our time (like someone here) and go ahead and practice for our concert that evening! Go Dvorak Symphony #8! | | |
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| And since there is only one of these awesome places around, and we were next door...might as well. Raspberry Filled, best doughnuts eva! |
Then we went home long enough to get ready for our season finale concert that night. Gabrielle and I played a duet solo feature with the youth orchestra, we played in the adult orchestra and they announced the violin winner. So back in the car we got.
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| We had to wear white tops with the youth orchestra and black with thet adult... and we have to change in about 15 seconds. YAY! I also always wear my pink and purple plaid VANS with my concert dress until the concert starts because we have to be there really early and I don't like wearing heels that long. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to wear them for the concert. |
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| This is Gabrielle and I playing our duet solo feature with the North Valley Youth Orchestra. I'll try to post a video soon! |
So I don't "actually" have a picture of the competition winner yet, so I can't post one. For now. But after intermission the whole North Valley Symphony Orchestra was sitting on stage ready to play when our amazing conductor Mr. K announced the winner. "And myself and the judges had a very hard time deciding the winner but we agreed it should go to Gab...(Enter me screaming and hollering like crazy here) rielle Lorenc!" Oh my goodness. I was so excited she won, I wanted her to win more then I wanted to myself to win! I'm still excited and this was 2 weeks ago.
So my sister won a $4000 HANDMADE violin. It's beautiful, I love it! No one deserves it more then her.
After the concert our orchestra headed to Claim Jumper (we had a reserved section of the restaurant! It was really cool!) For late night food and fun. Just us girls and Mom went because it was late. Us three girls shared the largest appetizer they had, and even though I hadn't eaten since my doughnut 7 hours earlier I was stuffed. All that fried cheesey ranchy dippy goodness. We talked to some folks and decided to leave.
Well. Me and Gabrielle have always had this "We should T.P. Mr. K's (our conductor, we've known him for about 4 years now) car. I don't know why. So we leave and his car is just sitting there, calling out to be T.P.'d. So my Mom, being the awesome Mom she is says "Let's go to Target" because we didn't have any TP with us. But I realized it was closed because it was already late. So I said, "Just go to the gas station." Okay, picture this. Two girls in formal concert black running into a kinda creepy gas station at 10:45 at night and buying 4 rolls of cheap toilet paper.
So we T.P.'d Mr. K's car and the whole time I'm thinking, "There almost done eating! There going to see us! We're going to get caught! They'll see us through the windows." But none of those happened. To add a finishing touch we put one of the roses we had received on his windshield. As we drove away I asked "Do you think he'll know who did it?" Mom answered, "Oh yeah, he'll know it was you two."
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| This is with only half the TP. |
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So we arrived home. At 11:28. We drove 152 miles that day and didn't even leave the valley. 15 hours of being gone, only one at home to change and get ready. What a day.
Pictures from the NVSO member party to come shortly!
-Lauren
