June 25, 2016 (just so I don't mix up dates)
Eric and I have currently beat Hannah and Alex twice and because we’re so obnoxiously clueless when we play, this was an extreme blow to their pride and so they’ve been demanding rematches. Eric and I play them again and we lose to them, making the score now 2-2 and both groups tied.
We drive to the docks at Stranraer and on the bus ride, we start a new Euchre tournament. Annika and I play Hannah and Eric and we continue our game on the ferry. Eric gets seasick but he forgot to take his medicine before he got onto the ferry, so he took it as the ferry started moving. Thankfully he didn’t puke. After the game, we go out to the deck to take pictures and get some fresh air, and out on the dock, the rocking motion of the boat is less noticeable.
Afterwards, we play some more card games, wander the ship, and then the 3-4 hours have passed and we arrive in Scotland! As I’m getting off the boat, there was this sharp pain that would radiate out from my right shoulder blade, and by the time I got to the coach bus, it was unbearable and I caved and asked Clara for Advil, even though I turned down her offer only 10 minutes prior. The bus ride from the dock to Glasgow was very scenic because it was along the coastline for much of it, but I was sitting on the wrong side of the bus (the left side had a great view) and my right arm hurt so much that I couldn’t take pictures. It was about a 4 hour drive and 2 hours into it, people started dozing off.
We get to the hotel and we have some time to relax before we have to head out. I use this time to take a hot shower to try to relax my shoulder muscles, which eases the pain somewhat. After spending two nights in a hostel, it is such a relief to be able to take a burning hot shower. All of us change into concert attire before dinner, and then we drive to the Glasgow Community Center Hall for Concert #8.
Since we’re in Scotland now, we aren’t playing our Irish songs anymore and we pull out Barber’s Adagio and Elgar’s Nimrod. We only set up when we get to the venue and we don’t rehearse, which makes us all really nervous for Nimrod especially, since it’s been more than a week since we’ve rehearsed that piece.
We were told that the concert wasn’t really publicized, and it really wasn’t publicized because only 15 people showed up in total. However, the acoustics were nice, the jazz played well, we played our best, and everything sounded good. Nimrod went surprisingly well; tuning was pretty good, probably because everyone was listening especially hard for intonation and balance because we were all nervous about performing this piece without getting a chance to play it through. Dr. D gives the pep talk about how it’s not how many are in the audience, it’s who’s in the audience, and that he’s proud of us because we still played our best despite the low turnout.
Afterwards, we have some time until curfew, which is later (11pm) because there is nothing scheduled for tomorrow morning so if we want, we can sleep in until 11am or even a little later.
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