You wake up in the morning and know that you will have to "perform" that evening.
After breakfast, you listen to mom and dad talk about when you'll need to leave in order to get to the RV park or church in time to set up and do a sound check.
The morning is not specifically relaxed... you may do school, go write some emails, or a blog post, or do an activity the park offers.
You have lunch.
You then either put a little girl's hair in curlers, make dinner, or iron dresses.
Then it's a mad rush to get everybody in the car... and then off you go!
You get to the RV park or church.
Dad, Mom and Greg get out of the car and talk to someone who tells us where to set up, or something. :)
Then all of us (depending) get out of the car, and then carry ALL of our sound system and our instruments inside the building and set up.
Usually there's someone there walking around.
Then you do a sound check - making sure everyone can hear each other and that we have a nice balance.
Then you wait... and sometimes visit with people... or get into your outfits and re-do hair.
When it's time to perform, you don't feel nervous... usually. :)
Then you get up on a stage, usually, and play for either 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour, an hour and 15 minutes, an hour and a 1/2, or two hours. :) *laughing* People like all sorts of different times. :)
Sometimes you take a break, and during that time, visit with people.
Then you get up again and finish the program.
Then you put your violin away and either visit or take down the sound system.
You end up getting out of the RV park late, and sometimes you have a really long drive home.
Then you have to get children into PJ's and then you get ready for bed.
Then you go to bed. :)
What a day! :) It can be tiring, but you hear from a lot of people that they enjoy the music. It's worth it.
Here are some pictures. Hope you enjoy.
The sweet twins. :)
Here, we were trying to get to the pizza place... and the GPS took us by some strange route. :)Last night was quite the adventure. We had gotten some money from a dear man who wanted us to go get dinner with it. So we went to A&M's Pizza Place. That ended up being a disaster, and blessing at the same time. We ordered a couple pizzas for our family (and Mr. Krell), and we waited... and waited... and waited... and waited... our pizza never came. We were getting a little worried, because we had to be at the RV park soon. So mom got up to check on it. It was in a box to go out for takeout! NOT in the plan at all! But we got a 50% discount for their mistake. We find that people end up making at least one mistake when ordering for a large family. :)
But we got to the RV park after eating our food VERY quickly (thinking we'd need to be in the park in a 1/2 hour or 15 minutes to set up and get our outfits on and everything). And we got there right on time... 5 minutes to spare. :) And we ended up not playing at 6:30 like we thought, but at 7:00. :) We had plenty of time. We were a little nervous, because they were eating dinner. And our last two dinner shows were horrible. The audience was not enthusiastic... partly because they were eating, I assume.
But these people were WONDERFUL! :) It was a good night. :)
One of the stages we played on... It was about 5 feet tall!
Before a performance...
Some cool buildings :)
We had some time before this performance. Sam was doing a workbook.
Those curlers are really good! I think it overdid it this time though. :)Hope you have enjoyed this peek into our life!
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