My first couple of days in Stuttgart

Our first night in Stuttgart we sang a fantastic C-Minor Mass, the last time we will be performing the entire work together. Afterwards we went to the Stuttgart city hall for a lovely reception. Mr. and Mrs Heinrichs, as well as Theo Schweiker and his wife were in the audience and came to the reception. It's always nice to recognize faces in the audience - it makes it feel more like home.

Yesterday I went shopping with Christine and Keith and I was very good - I only bought 5 shirts, and they were all for Kevin!! This morning Brynne and I went out again and I picked up a nice black dress, some pashmina shawls and some earrings. I'm not very impressed with the shopping this year. I went into Breuninger hoping to get a nice evening gown and nothing called out to me, and the styles and colours at most of my favourite stores are just hideous -__-"

I nearly freaked out yesterday because my iPod crashed on me after I did a photo dump. It wouldn't respond to any buttons or cables. Eric had a look at it too and was baffled - but this morning it miraculously was working like normal. PHEW!! If I lost my photos I would cry! However, on the train ride from Mainz to Stuttgart Hollie copied the photos off of my memory card onto his laptop so hopefully some of my photos will be on the website ^__^

In the meantime, there are some decent photos of me on our website (www.festivalensemble.org) - and I'm even having fun in some of them *gasp!* There is a fabulous picture of Erica, me and Christine in a gorgeous stairwell backstage in the Lucerne Congress Centre.

Tomorrow night Herr Schweiker is taking the Canadians out on our traditional outing. This year they are taking us to the Ritter Sport factory! We will be able to buy chocolate at their factory prices - how awesome is that?!! Then we will take a tour of Tübingen and then go out for dinner. I'm sure it will be fantastic.

Dani, I'm not sure if I will be able to run that errand for you - the next few days will be manic and nothing is open on Sundays over here...