2007 Pride of the Plains Band Banquet

At the end of our marching season, the band has a banquet to celebrate a successful year. After everyone eats their meal there's an awards ceremony and then the infamous band video portraying a lot of inside jokes. Following this is a dance that lasts until midnight. It's a great time with a lot of reflecting on the past year.

Sheila (trumpet buddy) and me

Me and Amy

Me and Shawn (yay, Shawn!)

Dallas, me and Mike. They're from my trumpet section and always find a way to make me laugh. I often get hugs from Dallas.

Sheila, me and Laura (Three-of-a-kind)

For the dance we even got Dr. Schnoor and Dr. Davis on the dance floor. This was during a Frank Sinatra song.

Poor Dr. Davis! All of a sudden everybody left the dance floor and left him standing alone while we all circled around. I guess during the Sounds in the Summer band camp (that I missed because of mono) there was one particular song that he danced to and was really able to bust a move. So, they played the song here hoping that he would do a repeat of his performance. He pulled in a few recruits to help him out a little bit.

Tom, the one in all black, felt sorry for Dr. Davis and pulled Dr. Schnoor into the center as well. He tried teaching Dr. Schnoor the "running man". Doc eventually got it but it took several tries. After this song, both Schnoor and Davis left the dance in a hurry.

Everybody on the dance floor