ATL day 2

The kids performed three times yesterday! We got 9 hours of sleep and woke up to a great buffet breakfast. Our concert band performed first, followed by our jazz band. Both groups were clinic-ed. Concert band had Gary Smith, direct emeritus of the
Marching Illini. Mr. Heath was his first graduate assistant in the 70's when he started at the school.

Jazz band had the former director of the Geogia Tech band. He switched up some things for them and they sounded great.

We then went to Dr. Martin Luther King National historical site. That was moving. The students visited his tomb and were able to see his former church, and multiple exhibits on his life. We all viewed a movie a out his up-bringing. That was incredible.

We then bused over to Olympic park and the kids blew off some steam in ultimate frizzbee. We walked over to the Georgia Dome and the drumline warmed up for their contest. The was a band from Alabama an in true southern style, they had featured twirlers and high steppers. It was cool for our kids to see something like that. Another state finalist band from Flordia performed. They were very good.

Our drumline took the stage and they had a clinic. The clinician pulled the kids in and said this: "y'all are good. I think you're ready for harder music."

Our buses then loaded and we invaded Dave and Buster's. I am not kidding when I say that we cleaned out the tickets by buying every stuffed animal they had.

Lights out was midnight and we woke them up at nine.

Ben