Today was mostly a sea day, as we wouldn’t arrive in Victoria BC until 8:30pm. A late night last night plus having to move our clocks up an hour to account for the time zone change meant that I slept really late (for me) and woke up at 7am. I had an 8am rehearsal! Up to the buffet for some emergency coffee and an English muffin, did the crossword and headed down to rehearsal.

That went pretty well - then at lunch, we discovered that it was cake day, so hell yeah.

Annie sent me a pic that she took of me yesterday when I was helping move equipment after Bells of the Cascades did their concert. These are bigger bells than we have in our local group and YES they’re freaking heavy.

Before long, it was time for our concert. We weren’t on the main stage (like we all thought we would be) but instead we played in the rehearsal room where we’ve been practicing. To say that it was crowded is an understatement, with probably 50 or more people outside in the hallway. I saved Rob a seat inside the room, which made it easier for him to see and hear what we were doing.

I think the concert went really well, especially since none of us had even seen the music before the cruise.

Honestly, not much happened after that, other than I finished writing my song. I have a mad respect now for people who write rap lyrics, because it’s seriously hard. And me being me, I chose a beat for the second half of the song that runs at a blistering pace and gets faster from there. Then I wrote lyrics that matched that speed. I’ll have it memorized at some point, but now I’m happy enough just to be able to spit it out.

***The day after we got home, I managed to have a half-decent run-through, so I made a video.

It’s been a fun cruise, I’m glad we came.

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