Ottawa Trip

Thus begins my long entry on my Ottawa trip. It was so much fun; much better than Halifax last year XD

I arrived pretty early, but there were lots of people who were early. And then Rachel came… with her flashy new car of course, and we were all like :eyes: Anyways. She bought my ruffles chips. Go you! :whoppee: The bus arrived at approximately 8:50, and we were all very excited. My friend and I got the seats near the driver, and the teachers, but it was all cool. Stopped at Kingston for lunch again (The same place as last year!) We arrived in Ottawa at 3:15, exactly the time school would’ve ended. It took an entire school day just to get to Ottawa XD We got rooms on the 10th floor, and the rooms are fairly nice; by that I mean it includes a kitchen. Went down to eat at Hard Rock Cafe, yay for hamburger buffet: heart attack in a bun. Went back to the hotel, had about three hours to spare in the hotel room.

Day two was fairly boring. Walked to the Parliament building, and arrived 25 minutes earlier than expected. Took plenty of pictures: jumping pictures, stars, and shoe pictures :pat: Waited for about 2 hours before we could actually start the tour, that lasted only for five minutes :grrr: Went to the NAC to watch the NAC Orchestra. Fell asleep because the music was boring. As in very boring. There were three pieces; the first was 18 minutes, second was 31 minutes, and last one was 29 minutes. Ate lunch; go Chinese food :hearts: After that, we went to the Royal Canadian Mint to learn about how our coins are made :huh: Dinner at 4 is awesome. Had buffet… and more grade 10 immaturity. After that, we drove to Quebec to go on the cruise. For those who has a girl/boyfriend, this is the time for make-out sessions, but for those who don’t, it’s miserable time. The dance went from good to awful. The songs started out with “4 Minutes”, “Gimme More”, to the Chicken Dance, the Macarena, and the Hokey Pokey; watched a whole bunch of bandmates grind each other; it was yet another divine punishment for us. The cruise lasted for 2 hours; I spent the last hour playing tennis/hockey with coins with my friends :zzz: That’s how bored we were. By the time we returned to the hotel, it was nearly 12AM, and we were supposed to wake up at 5AM tomorrow morning. Good thing for the senior band people, since we play later on the Friday, we get to sleep in. :yippee:

Anyways. Day three was playing day… we sounded so bad it made me cry. There was definitely something wrong that day… We got Silver… but then I found out 2/4 judges gave us bronze and the other 2 gave us silver. Since we got silver (again) in our sight reading, they bumped us to silver. Apparently most of the schools got bronze, and only six got gold. So we’re pretty lucky to get at least a silver. There was the fancy dinner… weirdness to the max. Then the concert: Yamaha Symphonic Band… it was so awesome, it was worth the 2 hours wait XD

Saturday was a museum day… ickyness to the max. We were so tired we fell asleep and barely made it to the bus to go for dinner. Yuck. So tired… Dinner was at a pizza place… more waiting. Sunday finally arrived, and the fun was over. It was sad… and the funny thing was that it was raining. Pathetic fallacy anybody?