Day 4 further post

Another fab day for the Vivace Youth Brass, starting with a concert at the Museum at 9.30 (or was it 10.30?), the band then got some free time at the Museum of Otago and whiled away many happy minutes in the science alive exhibit experimenting with the competitive brainwave game machine (to win you had to empty your head, I'll let all of you readers come to your own conclusions..) and the butterfly house. I actually got the feeling that an awful lot of the band would have quite happily have sat in the butterfly house all day.
Following this, with the street march being cancelled, the band were quickly booked for another performance at the museum at half one, this time with New Zealand Champion of Champions, Invitational Slow Melody champion, Euphonium champion, and all round nice guy Riki McDonnell. Riki is also the bands sponsor for the competition and owns the instrument manufacturers Vivace. The band certainly gave him a flavour of what we're all about!
The band then headed straight to the Cadbury Factory for a tour and lots of free chocolate. It was fascinating to see our more dynamic personalities concentrating like mad to answer any questions the tour guide asked (the reason being that if the answer was right then more free choc was handed out).
My own personal highlight of the day was Fenella's Augustus Gloop moment when, at the announcement the tour was coming to an end, she dived over to the liquid chocolate machine to eat as much as possible before leaving.
Back to the hostel for dinner, then rehearsal, with the band splitting into the D grade band and Youth Band for seperate run throughs of Jupiter, Liberty Bell, and Dream Catchers.
Roll on tomorrow, we are ready!