Jazz Festival 2008

This last week Aaron took his jazz band to the University of Idaho for the 2008 Jazz Festival. Alexis and I caught a ride and took the opportunity to visit Melinda and David.

Aaron was fortunate enough to arrange accommodations through the jazz fest office to stay on the gym floor in an elementary school. This helped enormously with costs.

Alexis loved being on a school bus and being around all of the kids, and all of the kids loved having her there as well. The bus driver (a grandpa like figure) fell in love with her sweetness too and bought her a stuffed bunny for the ride home. This is now one of her favorite toys.

Aaron's kids did well on their performance, but of course they have things they need to work on, which translates to a teenager that they did horribly...kids will be kids.

They all had a great time and are working on convincing Aaron that they should go again next year (he was going to have it be an every other year trip offset with the concert band trip).

As good as it was to have a trip away and to see family, it is just as good to finally be back home, and hopefully we can get Alexis back on her schedule.