Sunday, March 15, 2009

SPRING BREAK / UNIVERSITY SINGERS TOUR 2009

This was actually our first stop after leaving for tour ... Hephzibah Children's Home. Reason being, one of our students got a call from her parents saying she needed to return home because her father was having emergency heart surgery. We were a number of hours away from school by now and thought the best option would be to leave her at Hephzibah until a family member could pick her up. Meanwhile, we did a quick tour and went to the stables. Thus, our first picture on tour!
Here's our tour crew in front of the stables. Pretty nice barn!

Believe it or not, this is not real food, it's just a picture of food taken at STEAK & SHAKE, where we ate our first dinner. Yes, things got a little out of hand. We requested hats and they graciously gave them to us. We pretty much were the entertainment for the entire restaraunt. You can only see a snibit of Bob's face on the left. After numerous attempts at trying to get us all in the frame, we gave up and just took a picture of Bob. See below. Yea, so this was pretty much it.All the girls - Sarah whom we left at Hephzibah.This is Ben. He totally fits into the 50's diner scene.
Ben, Amy and I stop for a quick picture on the beautiful beach of Casey Key. We had about an hour here. Not near long enough.
Tiffany, Ashley, Colicus and I are on a pier. The colors were so beautiful. This picture kind of washes everything out. A passer-by felt sorry for us and help us get this shot. As sometimes happens on tour, you run into people you never expect to. This is Joanne Drury Cutler and her husband Dwayne. They went to a church we had a concert at (Cape Coral) and we got to go home with them and get caught up on the last 30 years. Joanne's first husband, Elmer Drury, was our boss at United Wesleyan College when we worked there.Me and Joanne before taking off the next morning. What a great night with them!Saturday of the tour was Tiffany's 21st birthday. We started the day by celebrating with humungous sunglasses and banners. Bet you can't guess which one is Tiffany! Then we went to Plant City to visit Parkesdale Farms and enjoy some fresh strawberry stuff! It was only 10 am and we really didn't care. We just wanted the goods! Now this was the really fun part. They had this huge cut out strawberry for a throne, with tiarras there and flowers. There was a little sign that said, make yourself queen or king for a day. So, this was our strawberry Princess for the day. She had a blast! It was great that her birthday was so much fun for all of us. Her first birthday away from home too. Another fun thing at Parksdale Farms was this big map and these straight pins. They wanted you to mark where you were from. So, Colicus did it for all of us ... Central, SC. Sadly, this is the only picture of us singing all week. This is at Brooksville, Fl. The kids really enjoyed singing there and meeting so many wonderful people. I was singing for Sarah all week - so I'm on the far left side.

5 comments:

Emily Hopeman said...

SO many updates! :) I didn't realize just how much snow you guys got! And looks like you had some great fun over tour. Miss you guys GREATLY!!!

markr said...

dessert breakfast? possibly better than dessert dinner. glad you guys still know how to have fun with a meal!

Laurie J. said...

Oh my goodness! Loved that you had a new post! :-)

It was great to see your tour shots - and it made me happy to see you singing up there! You looked so cute on stage with everyone! (Sorry for the girl whose father was ailing, though. Is there an update?)

lj

Cindy Phillips said...

I was born in Plant City, FL, and there is NOTHING that compares with a fresh Plant City strawberry!

Anonymous said...

That strawberry dessert looks fab. Cute strawberry birthday girl too. Loved all your pics.

Barb