Day 4

Today was our adventure to our second state on the tour! We left the hotel in Roanoke, VA at 8:30 A.M. bound for Kingsport, Tennessee, the hometown of our director Richard Teaster. It was about a three hour drive and we arrived in Kingsport at 11:30, where we had a brief lunch at a rest stop and continued on to Volunteer High School in Church Hill, Tennessee, dressed in our white button down shirts, khaki pants and Pitt bow ties. We warmed up in the choir room of the school while some of the students watched and then met with some of the students and their director, answering some questions about our group and college life in general. We performed in the auditorium of VHS at 1:50 P.M., where we did a truncated version of our normal reportoire for the high school and some middle school students as well. After a brief Q&A session with the students, we continued on to our hotel in Kingsport. At 6:00, we drove to Mommas Diner in Kingsport, where we were able to eat an incredibly large buffet dinner. Well deserved after a long day of travel and singing, many members stuffed themselves silly with southern cuisine. We headed back to the hotel and played card games and talked about our day and the high school, while some members played a game of spades with Richard in the lobby. Tomorrow is the day of our concert in Kingsport where we will be seeing several people that Richard grew up with in Kingsport!

Member Benjamin Engel was very tired from a long day of travel this morning.