That is great that you were able to perform at DCA with your band. I enjoyed seeing your performance two years ago.
Looks like the food has been changing over at Flo's since I ate there a few years ago. Maybe it will be time to eat there one day.
Thanks! I was so grateful to you for recording the performance as well!
Yeah, I remember that originally Flo's had open faced beef and turkey sandwiches. I was surprised when I first went there and they had regular sandwiches.
I know. Thank goodness it's only one.
As if you needed tickets...
Well, we didn't, but most of our friends do. Believe it or not, but we really don't have friends that want to go to Disney. However, we are slowly breaking their resistance. Tonight we went out to the park, ate dinner at the Plaza Inn, rode Indiana Jones and then watched the parade and fireworks, then we went home. Everyone agreed that this was a great night and not running around all day from ride to ride made for an enjoyable time at Disney.
Absolutely! I really enjoyed the ribs there. Definitely not bad for a counter service meal.
I'd say awesome for a counter service meal.
Yes! I had some of DD's when we ate there. It was very good. I'm glad you enjoyed your meal at Flo's! I really thought it made for a fantastic counter service experience.
It's definitely up there on the list, but really hard to beat the Fried Chicken from Plaza Inn.
Well, poop. I was absolutely sure I'd commented on your last update with the band performance photos. Shoot!
I hate when your posts disappear into the ether!
Anyway, it does look like enormous loads of fun! And, there's always a few in every group who don't listen to directions and have no clue what's going on. It's true everywhere.
It's so fun to do a concert at Disney. They do all the heavy lifting, we just show up and play. No set up, tear down, and then we just change our clothes and go have fun in the parks!
It always amazes me because we go over the procedure EVERY WEEK at rehearsal for like a month. We have a whole Q&A time. I stand up and explain the whole thing from start to finish about how we meet backstage, they take us through security, you need to give us your name as it appears on your driver's license as then will check that before they let you through. Bomb sniffing dogs will check your instrument case, no pictures backstage, yadda, yadda, yadda. We go over this for three to four weeks every Tuesday night before the day of the performance, and still there are people who don't get it.
YUM! Ribs and coleslaw: hard to beat that combo right there!
Yup. Perfection!
I love it that you keep going back to Flo's now!!
I am impressed that they keep having those bands to perform in the park, what a fantastic experience for everyone involved and the theme park guests, too. But what is wrong with people to not understand clear directions about where to be and when? You think this is specific to your band or do they have to deal with that with every band that comes?
It is a great experience. But our band is a little different from most of the other bands who play there. Most of the groups are school age children who arrive on their bus. I'm not sure if you were following eandesmom's TR when she used to be on the boards, but her kid had a much more typical experience except they did "Magic Music Days" which is a "pay to play" experience. The kids also get some kind of clinic as part of their experience. We participate in the "Community Arts Showcase" which is only open to musical and dance groups who are in counties that border Orange County. The Community Arts Showcase is only open during November through February.
Anyways, most groups are usually school based and the kids are coming in from their schools on a bus of some sort. Usually they arrive early in the morning, the kids go into the park for a few hours and then they meet their guide at a designated spot in the park at a certain time and they are taken backstage. The bus pulls up backstage and they all get their costumes and instruments off the bus and prepare for their performance. They play and then change back out of their clothes and go back out to the park until their bus goes back to their school and they go home.
I suppose there is still room for error when someone doesn't meet at the designated spot for the concert or even worse when it's time to go home. The difference with our band is that we all arrive in our personal vehicles. We have to park in the Cast parking structure off Ball Road (where you were when the fireworks started on the night that you went to Umami burger). There is more of a chance for people to be late since we are driving from various places around Los Angeles.
I did hear a very funny moment with a school band while we were waiting for the rest of our band to come backstage. The Director was addressing his band who had just come in from the parks and he explained to them that they needed to change into their uniforms, but "Disney has standards and a changing room, you can't just drop your pants right here backstage to put on your uniform."
You may think that is strange and awful, but band people sometimes have to change at the drop of a hat, and most folks have no modesty when it comes to getting changed into uniform as it can be more important to change more quickly than to worry about who is watching. It brought me back to High School and college when marching band people would do things like the director described without giving it a second thought!
