Top 5

Boy, am I tired!

These singing weekends are long, hard, and exhausting, but such fun!

This weekend was our Regional Competition. It was also my first time competing in a quartet. I was trying not to be nervous, I did pretty well. :)

We competed first which is never a good place to be, but I was happy because I got to watch the rest of the competition.

I didn't want to get my hopes up, but secretly I was hoping we would come in the Top 5. Welllllll, we did!! We got 5th place. 5th place means a medal! Yeah, Baby!

In the Sweet Adeline world the Top 5 competing quartets or choruses get medals, get to sing on the Afterglow (the big party at the end of the contest, etc). Top 5 is the place to be. :)

Our performance went well. I wasn't nervous at all, well, I guess I was because my hands were sweaty, but I felt good. We sang well and were happy with our performance. This was my first time so I didn't know what to expect really, but it went well and it was a great first competition. Thanks, quartet. ;)

After we sang, we came down and everyone told us we were definitely in 1st place. :) Pretty funny since no other quartets had gone yet. Watching the contest was fun, but scary. Of course, you never really know how you did, so I didn't know what place we would be at all. This was the toughest year, competition-wise. We had several GREAT quartets all competing for the Top 5 spots. They could have gone to anybody.

At the end all the competitors got up on stage. I was expecting them to make announcements, give awards to the quartets, like Most Improved, Novice quartet, etc, but they went right in to announcing 5th place and then called our name. I think we were all pretty stunned and it caught us all off guard. I think we stood there for a second before we figured out that they had called us. Michelle pushed me to the front to get my medal first, since I was the only one that had never competed before. It was pretty fun. :)

4th and 3rd place also had members of our chorus, so we had a good day. All of our quartets did very well. Good job, guys!

Saturday, we were the hostess chorus. Since we won the competition last year and are going to International in October, we were the ones to make sure everything ran smoothly for this years competitors. We had to be up, fully make-upped and dressed by 8:00 in the morning. After going to bed at 2:00 and having a LONG day before that, it was not very fun to be up that early. Oh well. The day went great. The chorus competition was great and there were several good choruses. We got to perform our outgoing package for them, and we made it a fun, exciting time.

We got to sing at the Afterglow party. I was a little more nervous this time. I think because I could see everyone well since we didn't have lights shining on us, so the audience was right there. I also had just eaten dinner and I ate too much cuz I was starving so I was extremely full and didn't feel very well.

After the Afterglow (which ended at 11:45 p.m.) there are all kinds of little parties, we call Glimmers. We love that part. We sang, and then everyone in the room sings. We have lots of fun. I didn't get to bed until just about 5:00 this morning.

I am dead tired and plan to go to bed SOON. My first quartet contest experience was great. i couldn't ask for anything to be better. My first time and I come home with a medal. It was fun. No stress. It was great. Yea Takin' a Chance. Thanks for a great experience. You guys are great. :)

Tomorrow is back to the same old, same old. Spring Break is over, school starts again. None of us are looking forward to it. I am sure it will be fine. I just hope I can get over my tiredness.

Good Luck, Jen and Michelle, this weekend at your other quartet contest. I know you will be awesome.

Ohhhh, I had way too much stuff to bring so I didn't bring my camera. I think Lindsay has a few pictures, maybe. I don't even know if we have a picture of my quartet with out medals. :( I will try and post one of me with mine tomorrow and I will see what Lindsay has. There were some professional pictures taken, but I am sure I won't have those for a while.