CHOIR TRIP FIRST DAY
November 12 and 13, I went as a chaparone for the Eagle High School Treble Choir, on a trip to Pocatello, ID. They were invited to participate in a Choir Festival at Century High School on the 13th.
Poor Mr McMullen was the only Male, besides the bus driver, surrounded by 35 females. The trip was relatively uneventful until we stopped for a potty break at a small convience store near Albion. They had a hamburger joint inside of the store and these girls went crazy ordering food. Now mind you. We had all taken food to eat on the bus so that we wouldn't have to make a special stop along the way. The girls had all had
chips and other goodies to eat while traveling and they still ordered food.
Seth, Mr Mc Mullen, couldn't believe that these girls could put so much food away.
Our first stop in Pocatello was at the Idaho State University, music building. Dr Lawlor a professor there worked with the girls on their techniques for about an hour. We left there and went to our hotel. We stayed at what is now the Red Lion. It is a very nice hotel just as you are coming into Pocatello on the East side of the interstate.
Shane and I stayed there on the first night of our honeymoon, and we took the kids to Pocatello for one of our anniversaries and spent the night and played all day the next day.
Before getting off of the bus Seth cautioned the girls to stay close to a buddy. Not to go off anywhere by themselves, and if they were going somewhere to eat to have one of the 3 chaparones go with them.
We got checked in and went our different directions for dinner. Most of us went over to Perkins just kitty cornered from the hotel, one group went over to the Subway sandwich shop, and a few of the girls stayed at the hotel. After dinner some of the girls wanted to swim so we let them go ahead and we had one of the chaparones with them while they did so.
I had to go back to my room for a minute and some of the girls were talking to Seth telling him that there had been a man at the door of their room giving them a bad time. I didn't hear much of the conversation. A little while later I was walking with Em down to the restaurant in the hotel and Tina, one of the girls, stopped us and told us that a man had been harrasing Megan another of the girls. He had actually grabbed her arm and was trying to get her to go up to his room. Thank goodness he didn't actually try to force her. He made the mistake of telling her his room number. Murial Stocking, one of the other moms let the front desk know what had happened and they swiftly delt with the man. I am not sure how but they were very adament about the fact that he had been delt with.
We had a meeting around 10:30 pm and talked about events to come on friday and again went over with the girls the importance of sticking together, especially in light of what had just transpired. Murial, Lanelle, and I, the chaparones, stayed out in the hall outside of the rooms and talked until about 12:15 am. We were pretty sure that the girls had settled down for the night. So we were finally able to get some sleep ourselves.
Mom W was here 11/13/2004 11:35:00 PM
