The Colorado Adventure

James needed to do a night flight so I went up with him.

We stood out in the cold pre-flighting the plane for 30 minutes, there is a whole checklist of things to do.

Then we finally got clearance to take off. The view at night was so different than the one during the day.

The streets were glittering with lights, cars and it was so cool.

The lights made patterns of circles, the freeway cut lines in the dark, the ice on Chatfield lake was barely discernable in the dark (there was no moon.) The pics are shaky because it was hard to hold the camera still in the plane, we were traveling fast and I didn’t use a flash, still I think they are beautiful.

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At GS today we were doing the music badge. Lucky for us one of our co-leader moms used to be a music teacher, plays like 13 instruments and wanted to do the badge. We started off by singing a round of a song; I think we needed louder people singing. We listened to different types of music and it was funny to hear the kids say that this type sounds like Tom and Jerry and this type sounds like Bugs Bunny – all good opera is done by cartoons don’t you know. Then we talked about how a conductor conducts the orchestra.

Everyone got a baton and a chance to stand at the music stand and conduct some Peanut’s jazz. Hannah thought this part was the bomb, she went a little crazy.

We talked about different types of instruments and Marsi let the kids hold a viola and play it and blow into a flute (no one got a sound out of it.)

We talked about stringed instruments, wind instrument and percussion. We played a piano, bongo drums, a Chinese drum and recorders. We set up glasses with varying amounts of water in them and played twinkle little star, the kids had fun banging on the glasses.

To top it off we watched an Erhu concert on You tube and then drew instruments that we made up.
That was a very fun badge to work towards.

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