So, I recently gotten the opportunity to visit St.Louis in Missouri! This was a school band trip. So let me tell you how everything went!
Friday, April 4th, 2025, 6:00 AM
I had to wake up at 6 in the morning and pack my things and then drove to my middle school. The charter buses arrived at 7. We had a quick meeting in the cafeteria then the buses arrived. I am in percussion so I had a harder job to do than carry my luggage. My middle school doesn’t start until 9 am so no one was there except for us. We load the buses and then we left at around 8 in the morning.
Friday, April 4th, 2025, 3:00 PM
We arrive at the Hotel in St.Louis at 2:30ish and unload and get our luggage. Our instruments stayed on the buses. We went to the hotels ballroom and ate some Chick Fil’ A. If you’re curious, the hotel was a Hilton Honors hotel. Some people had their rooms ready, while others didn’t. My group didn’t get rooms when we arrived. Alarms were the rarest alarms I’ve seen, General Signal Chimes? and Wheelock speaker strobes. Pulls were EST 270-SPO’s. We change into our tux’s and dresses and hit the road again to head to Northwest High School in St.Louis. It was an hour drive from the hotel.
Friday, April 4th, 2025, 4:30 PM
We finally arrive at the high school. It was cold and sprinkling. I had my band folder over my head so I wouldn’t get my hair wet. We head inside and they send us into a hallway near the band room. We warm up for both Concert Band and Symphonic Band. Concert Band went first, then it was 3rd Year Strings, then Symphonic Band, then 2nd Year Strings. We load the buses and then we leave the school and head to Incredible Pizza.
Friday, April 4th, 2025, 6:00 PM
We arrive at Incredible Pizza at 6 or 7 PM. Everyone got a $35 game card. I went to the ticket spinner and got 200 tickets 2nd try. First was the 200 in the middle and two 4’s on the side. First it landed on the 4. I span the wheel again and on 200 smack down in the middle. Fun 2 hours.
Friday, April 4th, 2025, 9:45 PM
We arrive back at the hotel at 9:45 and I immediately book for my hotel room so I can get in the shower. My room was 452, on the 4th floor obviously. I realize that elevators are most likely full cause almost everyone just got a room key. I hit the stairs and the rest of my group hit the elevators. They were Otis, btw. I get there first and then get in and hop in the shower. My roommates were dying to get in! 
. Anyway I get out and hit the bed, of course I get a bed to myself. A kid sleeps on the floor. I remember shutting my eyes finally at 11:20 PM.
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 12:55 AM
I wake up to the phone ringing, it’s like midnight, I pick it up and it was like midnight! I was like the f***, I’m tired, why are you calling me, what do you want. It was like guest services or something. I remember waking up the whole room, which I feel bad. I asked who it was again so everyone could hear and then phone hangs up. It’s 1 in the morning by now. I go back to sleep. Phone rings again, I pick it up and I say, about to yell, cause of my anger problems, “What The Hell Do You Want?!?!?!” It hangs up. I’m like you know what, I’m unplugging this phone and throwing it out in the hallway. Luckily the phone didn’t ring. To my knowledge.
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 6:05 AM
I wake up to a wake up call. Our breakfast time was 6:30, the earliest breakfast time. Obviously, my roommates are slow, so I had to play a bell to wake them up. Head down to the ballroom, and meet my chaperone there. The chaperone was my mom! Thanks mother! Eat breakfast, head back to the room to pack up cause we left the hotel at 9. Packed up and ready to leave!
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 9:00 AM
I get on the bus and leave the hotel. It was now time to head to the City Museum. I thought it was fun. This was a 2 hour drive. Felt like forever, but we got there!
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 12:00 PM
We arrive roughly around noon, It was COLD!!! Anyway, it was boring. The only cool thing was that there was a functional elevator there. Thing is, the elevator was an OLD SCHOOL elevator. It was gated off so I didn’t ride it. I stayed for two hours.
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 2:00 PM
We leave St.Louis to go to Golden Corral in CG MO. We arrive and I eat free food and desert.
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 3:00 PM
We leave MO and head back to my middle school in Arlington!
Saturday, April 5th, 2025, 6:50 PM
We arrive back at the middle school. Luckily we had our administrator, Mr.Reed! Thank you Mr.Reed, we just needed you to disarm the alarm… I go home in the rain.
If you want additional information, please let me know! It took me a day to write this!