YEAH HAYRIDE WHOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so excited! This is my third, and final (tear) A Cappella Choir Hayride. It's our beginning of the year bonding thing and it's so awesome. We drive for like an hour out to a farm and go on a hayride. Then we have a bonfire and eat dinner--hotdogs over the flames, and later s'mores. After dinner the officers (i'm one) go up to the barn and prepare for the next phase of fun. We put on a skit for the rest of the choir that we've written ourselves and is usually hilarious, as well as downright dumb. After that comes the rookie initiation. What we do is *************** sorry, can't talk about that, rookies might be reading. After the rookie initiation comes game time. That's a lot of fun. Our traditional game is the haystack game (or in the absence of haystacks, the chair game). We all pair up and sit around in a circle, one person on the haystack and one person standing behind. one person has an empty seat and that person calls out the name of someone sitting. that person has to get away from their seat without being grabbed by the person behind them. after that comes the animal game, which is too difficult to explain in words. and after that we play some other games. then we go outside for a massive game of tug-of-war. usually its sopranos vs. altos, bass vs. tenors, and boys vs. girls. then we wrap the night up by singing Hallelujah Chorus and The Lord Bless You and Keep You in a circle under the stars. then we drive home and get back at like one in the morning and have to be at school the next day. it's amazing. i'm so unbelievably excited, but also sad. because not only is this my last Hayride, but it's the last Hayride. Kimball's choir doesn't do a Hayride, and it's a hard thing to force traditions on people who don't want them. but i prefer to think of the lighter things. like what we're going to do to the rookies. and on that note i say farewell.

And in the immortal words of The Max Schurig: YEAH HAYRIDE WHOO-HOO!!!