While senior year had just began, it felt like just yesterday John and his friends where walking into the large white halls of Brookhaven high. His class had finally made it to the end of the road. John had picked out all the classes he needed to and wanted to take for his last year of High School and everything was going just fine. During the summer while at band practice his band director announced where the band would be going for their spring trip in April. The destination was set for Chicago Illinois and so John and his sister where super excited because that was where they where born. Fueled with this information they soon arrived home to tell their mom that they would be going to Chicago for their final band trip. After explaining what
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Everyone said their goodbyes to their parents and siblings as we found our seats and argued which movies to watch on the way there. The students had about ten hours ahead of us and surprisingly it passed by rather quickly. At about eleven that night most people where asleep or close to it while John was just playing games on his phone. Earlier that next morning everyone was awoken by each other snoring or by the sun shining in though the big shiny windows as we caught seven AM traffic. The busses pulled into a cracker Barrel for breakfast and to change clothes for the day ahead while the students where all cranky and not wanting to get up. After everyone ate and everyone changed we performed at the daily plaza with a nice size crowd and at that performance I understand why everyone calls Chicago “The Windy City”. After we packed up our performance and changed I gracefully found my jacket I put in my carry on bag since our next stop was the navy pier. After an evening filled with food and evil pigeons stealing food from everyone, the busses brought us to our hotel and we unloaded the busses and collected our room keys to shower and get ready for dinner at Medieval Times. With the first day under our belt we felt like we all could accomplish
Everyone said their goodbyes to their parents and siblings as we found our seats and argued which movies to watch on the way there. The students had about ten hours ahead of us and surprisingly it passed by rather quickly. At about eleven that night most people where asleep or close to it while John was just playing games on his phone. Earlier that next morning everyone was awoken by each other snoring or by the sun shining in though the big shiny windows as we caught seven AM traffic. The busses pulled into a cracker Barrel for breakfast and to change clothes for the day ahead while the students where all cranky and not wanting to get up. After everyone ate and everyone changed we performed at the daily plaza with a nice size crowd and at that performance I understand why everyone calls Chicago “The Windy City”. After we packed up our performance and changed I gracefully found my jacket I put in my carry on bag since our next stop was the navy pier. After an evening filled with food and evil pigeons stealing food from everyone, the busses brought us to our hotel and we unloaded the busses and collected our room keys to shower and get ready for dinner at Medieval Times. With the first day under our belt we felt like we all could accomplish