Band Competition in Eastern Washington

Fall has officially begun not only with the leaves changing colors and the cool crisp weather returning but it's also marching band season again. Last weekend we drove over to Silverdale, Washington to watch Mackenzie and the Cascade Marching Band perform for the first time this year. It was fun to watch their show and to see all the hard work they have done in their practicing so far pay off when they took 1st place in the preliminaries and finals competition in their division.
This past weekend the band traveled to Eastern Washington for another competition. Steve, Brooklyn and I decided to make a fun weekend trip out of it so we left Friday after Brooklyn got out of school and took the 4 hour drive East from us to Kennewick, WA. When we arrived in Kennewick we went out to dinner and then checked into our hotel and enjoyed a relaxing evening watching a movie on TV.
The next morning after breakfast in our hotel room we went to the mall to do a little shopping and then we took a drive through the city. We found a church building that had a nice covered pavilion where we had our picnic lunch and let our dog Kia out of the car for some play time.

Brooklyn found a cool tree to climb on and we decided it was a great backdrop for a photo shoot!

Here is a picture of the band performing.

Here is a close up picture of Mackenzie marching and playing her mellophone. She is the one to the right of the flag in the middle. Cascade took 3rd place within their division in preliminaries competition in the afternoon and then they had to cancel the finals competition because it started raining really bad. They were disappointed that they couldn't perform in the finals and try and beat their score. But it was fun to go and watch them perform and have a little weekend away. Congratulations Mackenzie and the Cascade Band!