Britten or Bust!

So, the USU Chamber singers have been joining up with the American Festival Chorus to bring to pass Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem". This is an incredibly difficult undertaking and we've been working on it for an extended period of time. It uses the full choir, an orchestra, a chamber orchestra and a children's choir, Plus three soloists. (we hired professional singers, the AMAZING Stanford Olsen being one of them).
Yesterday we had our final dress rehearsal and our first rehearsal down at the Cathedral of the Madeline. Originally they were suppose to have charter buses for us to take down, but due to a slip up they forgot to put in our order for Thursday. So someone came up with the brilliant idea that they would get four Aggie shuttles to take us down. Well...guess what...they didn't have enough seats for all of us. They were about three seats short.
this ended up being completely fine with us, see my friend Becca has been having a lot of back issues lately and sitting on an Aggie shuttle that long was going to mess up her back. So Me, Becca, Jordan, Josh and Kelton all hop in Keltons car and we drive ourselves down to salt lake. And now we secretly don't want to take the bus this afternoon. the car ride was to much fun. :)
Becca sat up front while i sat in the back between Josh and Jordan (i was the shortest so i had to sit in between to boys...oh darn...) We joked and laughed all the way down. We got to rehearsal long before everyone else and so we didn't have to trip over everyone trying to find our seats.
But the car ride back was great! I was exhausted, as were all of us, and we therefore were really easily entertained. BY about Ogden my back was killing me and I was tired so i look over at Jordan and say "can I turn you into a pillow?" He says "Sure, I'm already turning the roof into a pillow" SO I'm almost asleep on his shoulder and then the rest of the car starts laughing about things and then they are laughing to the war requiem. (we've spent WAY to much time on this piece.) At one point moves back suddenly from laughing, i jerk awake of his shoulder. After a second i fall back onto it and stay there for a few more minutes until Kelton almost ran into a semi and so Becca screams, which makes Jordan scream which jolts me awake and there was really no hope of falling to sleep.
However we were still having the problem of the back seat really starting to hurt my back (rehearsal made it hurt first) so i lean over on josh this time, to try and find a new position to sit it. (Yeah, Jordan is a MUCH more comfortable pillow. I mean Josh was comfortable, but Jordan was more so) But that doesn't last long, so I try leaning forward, and I ask if one of the two guys on either side of me wants to rub my back. Josh does, and it finally started hurting less.
But mostly that car ride made me really excited for our plane ride to China, all of us, on jet lag? The flight attendants are going to wat to kill us, we tend to laugh loud and enjoy every minute of it.
But i wouldn't trade this group of friends for the world. WE laugh and have fun all the time, and I am so grateful to have all of them in my life.