The Legacy

So I'm sitting on a couch in a luxury vacation house just north of Branson. It's located on a 850 acre ranch that some friends of my family own. The house is called the Legacy. Normally it's rented out to groups or families on vacation. It's got a fully equipped kitchen, pool table, foos ball, a bunch of bedrooms, a 6-person hot tub, a big screen TV, and it's in the country. Check it out here, and here. Anyway, our friends called us and said they didn't have anyone coming to stay in it this weekend, and told us we could come down and use it for free if we wanted to. Right after orchestra ended on Friday evening, my family and Owen drove down here. We stayed up and played pool for hours.

Then Saturday evening, we went to the Symphony concert. They played Handel's Water Music Suite No. 2 and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Some of the most famous pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah exempted. They had a 200 voice choir singing with them. The choir was composed of several different area colleges, and they were amazing.

After the concert we picked Grace up from C of O. She spent Saturday night here at the Legacy with us. In fact, as I write this, she's sitting across the room from me reading something...hi Grace! *waves*

We'll go back home sometime this afternoon. Mom and Dad will come back down here for a couple more days to celebrate their 20-something anniversary.

So I'm in this homeschooled High School Choir. We have a competition coming up this next Friday. One of the songs we are singing is a rather upbeat Gospel song called He Never Failed M Yet. There is 3 solos in it. We were told to be ready to try out for 2 of the solos this last Friday. I tried out for the first one with several others and royally bombed it. So I asked if I could try out for the 2nd one too. Our choir director said yes, and so I tried out for that one too....turns out no one else was going to try out for the 2nd one, and so I got the part by default. :P