Last Weekend

Last weekend I went to St. George, and Los Vegas to help with a Marching Band Competitions. It was the Marching Bands Band Tour, and so they did a few fun things that I got to participate in.

So Friday, after a 3 hour drive, we got to St. George and went to this Fun Center to visit meet the band which had been there for a few hour before we got there. The Fun Center was okay; it had an Arcade, a go cart track, and a mini golf course. We played a game of mini golf, and I rode the go carts which were a little small to fit a big guy like me into. Being with the band, we were given 10 tokens to play games at the arcade. And if you win, you get a ticket to win a prize. Well I was not doing to good with the tokens, but my dad who was with us was using one of those games where you try to hit the dump switch on a dump truck. I know you have all seen them. Anyway, he hit the switch, and the truck had a bunch of coins in it. So we sat there for 10 minutes waiting for the machine to spit out 250 tickets. So we got our self’s some prizes. There are just cheep prizes that would be cheaper to buy at Wal-Mart then to try and win at the arcade.

After that we went over to the competition, at Dixie Collage. It was just like any other marching band competition. Not very well organized and very boring. At a marching band competition, the routine is Hurry up and Wait.
The band won the Best Drum Line Award.

After that the band when back to there hotel at St. George, and I went to Las Vegas to stay with my mothers aunt. So another 2.5 hours later we arrive there.

Saturday we got up at 7:00 AM Utah time to meat the band at the Competition at UNLV at 7:30 AM Los Vegas time. Another Hurry up and wait.
This time the band did not win anything.

Later that night we went to the Hard Rock Café for dinner with the band. Let me tell you, don’t waist $22.50 for the food, you can go to A&W and get a better burger and fries for $5.50.



Then we went to The Phantom of the Opera play on the Strip in Los Vegas. The play was in The Venetian Hotel. The hotel was nice, but just like anything in Los Vegas, the main focus is the Casino, which in my option should be made illegal in all 50 states.

However, the play was great. It was more then I thought it would be. The Theater was custom made for that play. There was a awesome Chandelier that hung right in the middle of the theater that fell just down toward the audience during the play. If you understand the plot of the play, you will understand why this happened. But the most amazing part was the Fireworks inside the theater, and all the things that came out of the stage. At one time there was this wall that was over 20 ft by 20 feet that came out of the stage.
And they had these smoke machines that layered the stage with a thick smoke that looked just like a fog covered lake. It was very well done. It was expensive to get in, but it was worth it.



Anyway, then Sunday we drove home for 6 hours.

So that was my weekend.