up with kady

ok so i got behind. again.

saturday was our opening night!!!! unbeleiveable!!! it was so awesome! just everyone getting ready and then before the show we had 'green room' - which is basically everyone in the cast/staff coming together and getting pumped for the show together. but since it was the first one they made it all emotional and most of us were crying and hugging and it was just awesome. but also frustrating cause we were told to get ready before so we had all our stage makeup on and then cried it all messy. bah. haha but definitley worth it. sigh . . . . soooo good.

and then the show itself. obviously it wasn't perfect. but it was AWESOME! cause we were all soooo pumped and the engergy was soo high. and i love what i got to do. i'm in the band (keys) for the first two songs, and then dance/sing with the cast on the next three, then sing a solo, then go back to the band for four songs, sit out a couple cause i haven't learned the words/dances yet, and then sing another solo (the last big one) and then sing/dance the theme song with the cast. pretty awesome eh? i love it! i hope it stays pretty similar throughout the tour. the band to cast ratio that is.

oh and another thing for saturday!!! they give out six week internships - basically working for one of the staff members and learning more about that area. its really cool and it looks awesome on a resume and they write you up recommendation letters after. anyways i applied for one but they only have like 12 per round. there's three rounds. anyways i really really really wanted the vocal one cause well - you know me - love the singing. anyways so they announced on saturday morning who got what and i got the vocal one!!! YES!!!! soooooooo pumped. its going to be awesome!!!!

anyways then on sunday (last day with the stonesmiths for me - lauren ditched me in the morning. her cast went to tuscon early) i did laundry and packed and stuff and then matt told me that they were going to cirque du soile (spelling?!?!) and they wanted me to come too. and so obviously i did. it was awesome. unreal. i don't understand. hahaha the acts were just unbelieveable. and then we went home and ate and then i watched alladin with sienna. and then sleep.

monday morning. the tour begins. it was also sienna's birthday so we had cake and ice cream for breakfast before i left. too cute. and then sara's host family came and picked me up so that matt and cindy didn't have to drive there twice - as they drove lauren the day before. and we had to be a tekyio at 7:30. and it was like a 40 min drive. so i said my goodbyes and then we got to tekyio and my hometeam had to load the bus. so we packed as much luggage under the bus as we could - it was hardcore, not a inch left under there. and then we were off. so exciting! it was a nine hour bus ride roughly - but it was awesome. we all just hng out and it went by really fast.then we got to gallup, new mexico. we jumped out, unloaded the bus in the rain, and then changed into our number twos (business-casual) to meet our host familys. mine was unreal!!!!! there was six of us girls staying in one house!!! me, aimee, vanessa, vania, sophia, and alex. so fun. and the house was unreal! she was this artist and so it was just awesome. half of us slept in this cozy little loft thing with three matteresses on the floor and the other three slept in this seperate appartment down in the basement. the things about the basement was that if you wante to get to it from inside the house - you had to go into one of the bathrooms (there were an amazing four!), lift up this trapdoor under the shower an climb down a ladder. unreal eh?! best quote yet was from alex at breakfast. "i really had to pee and someone was using the bathroom in the basement - so i climbed up the ladder and through the trapdoor to use the bathroom." hahaha how often is that a serous sentence!?!? anyways i'm tired so thats it for tonight. i'll catch up some more tomorrow.