Olympia

Hey everybody! Me and my band just finished our first day in Olympia! It is July 6th right now, and almost time for our first concert! While everyone else is finishing putting on their matching outfits, I decided to take a few minutes to fill you all in on our trip so far.

The car ride was boring, but that is to be expected. Bryinda was on her cell phone the whole time arguing with one of her friends about something or other. The rest of us pretty much sat silently, doing nothing. Except for Kyle that is. He was driving.

When we got to Olympia, the first thing we did after finding a hotel was driving (yes, even more driving) down to the Washing State Capitol for a tour. The building was very nice, and the chandelier amazed me! After that we went back to the hotel and swam in the pool for an hour or so, then prepared things for the next day and went to sleep. The next morning we slept in until 10:00 a.m., ate breakfast, then went to Yashiro Japenese Garden. It was beautiful! Can you believe that after that we were already hungry again? We went to McDonalds for lunch. Then we went to a Washington Symphony Orgestra preformance to watch someone else preform, and then went back to the hotel to get ready for our preformance.

Well, seems like everyone is ready now, so I must go. Wish us luck!

~Aria, Lead Singer of Dragon's Gold

We have calculated the meal, hotel, and gas expenses and found out what items we are going to need to buy for our tour. On average meals will be $35 per person per day. Gas is going to cost about $12,082 for our whole trip. As for hotel costs, it really depends on what hotel we choose to spend the night in. We averaged it out into three catagories the best we could, those catagories being expensive, medium, and cheap. For all five of us, the expensive hotels will cost about $23,600 per day, the medium $16,225 per day, and the cheap, $6,490 per day. For the medium and expensive, that costs more per day than gas for our whole trip! We are going to have to be carefull with money if we want to make this whole trip.

Here is our list of items that we are going to need to buy:

• New bass guitar strings
• Repairs on the symbol and foot pedal for the drums
• A new keyboard
• One new amp, and repairs for another amp

Optional:

• Skins for instruments
• Disco light
• Colored disco light
• Flying dragon
• Flashing colored lights
  

That's all that I've got for today. Goodbye!

~Aria, Lead Singer of Dragon's Gold