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Saturday, October 11, 2008 |
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We will not unload from
Friday night.
Bring a sack lunch.
There are not enough restaurants open at this time in the Pearland
Town Center to accommodate us. |
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| 5:45
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Meet in
black shorts and official band T-Shirt. Pick up your uniform
from the hang up racks and load yellow dogs. |
| 5:55 am |
Buses leave for
Pearland H.S. Stadium ("The Rig"). |
| 7:15 am |
Arrive at
Pearland H.S. Stadium ("The Rig"). Unload people and equipment and prepare to
enter the warm-up area. |
| 7:20 am |
Go inside the stadium, use
the restroom, and analyze the hash mark system. |
| 7:45 am |
Back to the buses to
unload. |
| 8:10 am |
We warm-up on field "B". |
| 8:50 am |
Pit
reporting time. |
| 9:05 am |
Band
reporting time. |
| 9:15 am |
We "take" the field.
Our total "in control" performance starts! |
| 9:30 am |
Reload instruments and
return to stadium to watch some bands. |
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Bands we can watch: |
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9:30 Spring
9:45 Oak Ridge
10:00 Westfield
10:15 Travis
10:30 The Woodlands College Park
10:45 Elkins |
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At some point before 11:20,
eat your sack lunch that you brought from home. Find a grasy
knoll to eat with your friends. Bringing food into the stadium
is usually not allowed. A drink will be provided by the band
parents. |
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| 11:20 am |
Everyone on a bus and we
will depart with our “buds” to see the latest flicks showing in
Pearland. |
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Showtimes: |
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Igor / PG / 12:20 / 200
seats
The Express / PG-13 / 12:00 / 235 seats
Lakeview Terrace / PG-13 / 12:05 / 291 seats
An American Carol / PG-13 / 12:15 / 207 seats
Beverly Hills Chihuahua / PG / 12:10 / 136 seats
Eagle Eye / PG-13 / 12:00 / 150 seats |
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After the movies are over
we head back to the stadium and catch some more great bands. |
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2:00 L.D. Bell
2:15 Klein
2:45 Hightower
3:00 Friendswood
3:15 Dawson
3:30 Clements
3:45 The Woodlands
4:00 Hidalgo
4:15 Austin |
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| 5:00 pm |
Presentation of Awards. |
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If we do not make finals,
we will eat our delicious spaghetti and go home; arriving at
Brazoswood around 7:30 P.M. If we do make the top ten out of
24 bands, we will regroup in the parking lot, eat, and await our
appointed time to march again. |
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Finals start at 7:45 and
the award ceremony will be over at 11:00, allowing us to get home
about 12:20 A.M. |
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