This post is pretty delayed because I decided with all the uninteresting things going on in my life, I waited a bit for things to roll by so I can pack it into one blog.
Friday morning, Mom left for Chicago to see her Dad and get a break from how she has been feeling the last 7 months. But she will have a more in-depth story on her blog, what am I saying, the only reason you aren't my immediate family reading this is through my Mom's blog. On Halloween day, I started by trying to find my cuts for the region band auditions that day. The audition for all-state this year are recordings instead of life (because of Covid), so we had a key to our church, so we could record in a better acoustically sounding environment. The recording went well, and they said we should have resulted in about a week-and-a-half. But after the recording was done, he went home with some Little Caesars pizza and got ready to go to the 13th Floor, a local haunted house, it turns out the house wasn't that scary for me, but there were a few jump scares here and there that got me. After the haunted house, I went to a friend's Halloween party, where we watched Disturbia and ate lots of junk food.
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| Dad's pumpkin |
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| Mom's pumpkin |
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| Alex's pumpkin |
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| My pumpkin |
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| The 13th Floor, it wasn't the scariest, but it was really cool |
On Election Day I didn't have to go to school, so instead, I lounged all day, and watched the election which took a long time for the results to come in. But Biden was finally chosen as our next President, of course, Trump won't concede and makes a big deal of it, but I see that everything was fair.
My father has finally reached his mid-point, that's right, on November 7th he turned 40 years old and is officially old. I mean, he likes licorice. This year he got an electric coffee grinder, but his best present was a surprise. My Mom took my Dad to a breakfast place where he "accidentally" ran into his sister and brother-in-law. He was so excited to be able to spend the weekend with his family.
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| The reunion |
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| The whole gang getting some Duck Donuts |
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| Dad wanted a Texas sheet cake, which Alex made |
One last thing, and it's about band. We got our region results back and I turned out to be the highest-ranking trombone freshman in the region. Despite that, I only made the district band, not the region band. And for marching band, we finally got our uniforms and started moving around in our halftime show. In fact, in the last game. I got to play the trombone solo, because the section leader had to quarantine, so I was next in line.
I would also like to address the sudden horrifying spike in cases recently, The United States has consistently been surpassing 100,000 cases a day. Our worst day was 254,000 cases in one day. And were places where the situation is dire, like El Paso, we hope that we can once again slow down the pandemic so we don't go into a full lockdown again.
Then finally, Thanksgiving came. It was so nice to have some days off after non-stop school. I basically slept the whole break, but I did bike around on the new pump track in McAllister Park. It's the only pump track in the area so a bunch of pro bikers is hitting up McAllister and doing some crazy stunts.
Then, of course, Thanksgiving Day arrived and we prepared a feast with the combined efforts of some friends to have a large Thanksgiving Dunch and dessert. We all had fun shooting some arrows and throwing a football in the nice November weather (for Texas).
It's now December, and I feel like that this year has gone by in a flash, but it really feels like the days are weeks and the weeks are days. 2020 is almost over and we have a new adventure planned to celebrate the new year.
