First Band Concert

Tonight was the Citywide 5th Grade Band Concert at the Urbana Middle School Gym. Bobby was out of town, so I got to take all the boys with me right when I would normally be putting them to bed. It made for an interesting juggling match on the bleachers.

Anywho, here's the truth: it sounded awful. Dreadful, even. But that's not why we go to these things, is it? Of course not. Alice is the teeny speck at the very front of the flute section on the right, the first chair of the first row nearest her instructor. Her little brownish head is bobbing just above the guard rail in this video. I couldn't hear a SINGLE flute over the trombones and trumpets and plinking percussion, but I could see that Alice was blowing into her instrument and clicking keys to form notes...very, very slowly (you might want to make this full screen):



The good news was, I finally got to see some of the classmates she talks about :) and James only fell into one hole. Twice.