Today was drop-Kevin-off-at-Blue-Lake day; both Suzanne and I were able to get out of work to take him. Camp is just north of Muskegon, so, that's 1 hour and 45 minutes of drive. Kevin's supposed to be there at 11 am; his audition is at 12:30. We arrive at about 10:45.
Phrase of the day is "Kevin, you are sooo lucky.". Because this camp, at least to me, looks awesome, and repeatedly, I had to tell Kevin how lucky he was to be able to go to camp like this. You walk around and all you hear are the sounds of people playing instruments of all kinds; the camp is gorgeous; wooded, near a big lake. Kevin is in the "Bandwagon" group of 6 cabins, he's in the "King" Cabin with 11 other boys. Perhaps the downside of the camp is the cabin; it's not nearly as nice as the Mystic Lake accomodations from last year. Kevin is in the same group as another boy from his school, Ian, so that's good. Walking around, he met at least two others from his school, so, that will be good as well.
Got Kevin checked in, went over and purchased his camp 'gear'; everyone wears the camp polo shirts and such. Had lunch, went to his audition. That was held in this open-air pavillion; he had to play a scale and do some sight-reading. My general impression is he did well...he chose a scale (D major?...not sure) that wasn't the typical Do-re-mi whole note scale so, it sounded weird when I first heard it, and the instructor asked what scale he did and what notes were sharp and then asked him to do it in F (that's the Do-re-mi whole notes). Kevin was nervous about the sight reading, but, I knew from watching him that he does really well at this, and, the instructor might have just been saying the same thing to all of the kids, but, said that Kevin did a really good job here as well. I guess we'll see where Kevin gets placed...there's 4 orchestra levels, red, blue, concert, and symphonic, and we'll get a letter or note home sometime telling us where he placed.
Pick Kevin up a week from Sunday, the kids put on a series of concerts that day, so, ought to be an interesting time.
More posts as we get updates from Kevin.....
