What a weekend!

Hope everyone got home safely through the storms!

Thanks to everyone who helped cook, sew, clean, register, work on the equipment trailer, carry stuff, photograph and videotape, photocopy (thanks, Tom!), and do all the other stuff that gets done at crazy drill camp. Thanks especially to Lori and her magnificent kitchen crew for cooking so many hot, delicious meals out of an very under-equipped kitchen. And to the Scotts and their flag-sewing crew, and Lauren and Sue and their uniform-fitting crew. And Tom T. and his shako-fitting crew. And the truck guys for new lights, a reconfigured guard 'closet', weatherproofing and other trailer maintenance and improvements. And to everyone else who did all the little things that never get mentioned. (Oh yeah, the rifle-stripping crew and ... heck, I could go on and on and on)

The corps could not do this without all of you!

Thanks too to everyone who has signed up to work this summer. The schedule is looking a lot better, but we can always use YOU for a week or two. Contact Bill at colts.cooks@comcast.net to pick your spot.

Special thanks to the brass and percussion members and the extras (colorguard, friends, and relatives) who showed up to learn drill and all their hard work on getting through the opener and on into Windsprints. You should see it. And you will!

Next camp is Spring Debut in Dubuque on April 28-30. Be there! We'll need your help!


Drill Camp Schedule

FRIDAY
8 p.m. Move in equipment
(Shower and sleep in building 1, eat and sew in building 3)
Semi will be parked at building 3
Musical equipment to indoor field in building 1 (main building)
Food to building 3 concession stand
Personal items to multi-purpose room in main building (building 1)
Uniform fitting and sewing will be in building 3
Field marking crew – start marking field with blue painting tape on indoor field – full field
NOTE: Second three-quarter size fields are available for us all weekend in building 3. Field marking?

8:30 p.m. REGISTRATION in building 3

9:30 p.m. Visual in main building indoor field

11:30 p.m. Snack (in building 3)

12:30 a.m. Lights out
Sleeping area in multi-purpose room
Staff upstairs room above multi-purpose
Volunteers – anywhere in building 1 (Volunteers actually ended up in building 3)

SATURDAY
8 a.m. Wake/eat (Please roll up your sleeping bags and place with your stuff along one wall of the room.)
9 a.m. Cals on indoor field
9:45 a.m. Visual on indoor field
Noon Lunch
1 p.m. Visual on indoor field
5 p.m. Dinner in building 3
6 p.m. Meeting on indoor field
6:30 p.m. Music sectionals
Brass: indoor field
Battery: building 3 “field” OR in multi-purpose room in building 1 (sleeping area)
7:30 p.m. Visual ensemble on indoor field
10 p.m. Snack in building 3
11 p.m. Lights out (Daylight savings time kicks in tonight, so this is actually midnight)

SUNDAY
8 a.m. Wake/eat (Roll up bags, pack you stuff along one wall of the room, please, or even better, move as much as possible into cars now, please)
9 a.m. Cals on indoor field
9:45 a.m. Visual on main field
10:45 a.m. Sectionals
Brass: indoor field
Battery: building 3 “field” OR in multi-purpose room in building 1 (sleeping area)
11:30 a.m. March and play
Noon Lunch
1 p.m. Visual ensemble on indoor field
2:45 p.m. Final run through
3 p.m. Final meetings, announcements
3:15 p.m.-4 p.m. Clean/pack/load

NEXT REHEARSAL APRIL 28-30 IN DUBUQUE. DEBUT WEEKEND!