Vancouver Preperations and the Journey

Hello faithful blog followers! Although we are typing this from Vancouver, BC right now, our journey started three days before during "crunch time" for the symposium rehearsals. Before this trip, some of us were away on vacations- but in the end, we all came together to play beautiful music, no matter how jet lagged we were! (@Mio) Although some of the symposium songs were intimidating, we did the best we could together. By the time we wrapped rehearsals up (literally, with lots and lots bubble wrap) we were ready to take our skills to Canada.

The day of our flight, our families and friends waved goodbye as we departed the church. We got to the airport safely and had time to play cards and get excited about our trip. (Sometimes we got a little too excited, but what else do you expect from us rowdy teens?) We got off our plane safely, and unloading all of the equipment went smoothly- a huge success for us. As we headed to our hotel, we were all excited to start our journey in Vancouver- or to sleep- but we accidentally got dropped off at the wrong hotel! Good thing the correct one was literally just across the street.Now we are all cozy in our hotel rooms, and we write this blog post as we are about to pass out. Thank you for being our supporters through this journey; for your thoughts, prayers, and well wishes. We are all so excited to share our music with people from all over the world. More to come!

-Mio and Sonja

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