Wishing you a safe flight home

After a final leisure day and farewell dinner on Saturday,the Falcon Choir tour comes to an end today as the group leaves Berlin and returns to LAX. We wish all the travellers a relaxing journey and safe return home. The Incantato Tour Team.

Falcon Choir student blogger Cody reports from Berlin: A Great Ending with the Man in the Red Scarf

So its Friday night here in Berlin and a few hours ago we had our last concert of the tour. We had a decent sized audience that provided the needed energy that we couldn’t gather up by ourselves after such a great and exhausting trip. Even when we don’t feel like we sang as best as we could’ve there always seems to be at least one audience member that has something to say that lifts our spirits right back up. I truly don’t believe we could’ve had a better tour with better performances. And with only one more full day to go, I can say that this trip has been worth every dollar and euro that has gone into it.

In tonight’s performance we had an older gentleman, whom we affectionately named “the cute old guy with the red scarf”, who had a special appreciation for the songs we sang. Throughout the concert it was obvious that he was really enjoying it, but he almost couldn’t contain himself after hearing the first few notes of Weeping Mary. In an instant he put his hands to his face in shock and from half way across the church I could see him holding back tears, and as our three split up choirs sang back and forth, he started discretely conducting the song along with Mrs. Alderman from his seat in perfect synchronization. Somehow he knew the song and he knew it well, and I think we may have made his night. Before we could get a chance to talk to him, however, he had walked out with his wife without saying a word to anyone. That was pretty dang cool to say the least, and a fantastic way to end our tour.

As much as I’m looking forward to going home to be back with my family, back in my house, and back to more comfortable food, I’m going to miss Germany a lot. I don’t know that I could live here or anything like that, but it sure is an amazing place to visit, and the memories that the 2009-2010 CVHS Falcon Choir has made on this trip will never be forgotten.

-Cody Chase

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Days 5 and 6 in Germany

Hello. Annie Lawler here again. The last hotel we stayed at didn't have internet, so I'll have to fill you all in on the last couple days. :) . On mondy we left Munich bright and early for our long day of driving. Our first stop, after a couple hours on the bus, was Neuschwanstein, the castle disney modeled their castle after. It was beautiful on the outside and even better on the inside. And as if walking up to this magestic castle wasn't enough of a magical experiance, it started to snow as we got close to it. It was perfect and magical. We toured the castle, and unfortunatly wern't allowed to take pictures inside the castle, so parents, you'll just have to visit it yourselves to see it. :). Then it was back on the bus to get to a beautiful church in Steingaden. We preformed in our casual/nice attire to a small audience at first, but one that kept growing as the concert progressed. We spent only a few minutes at the church after that because we had to move out once again in order to make it to Rottenburg on time for our night tour of the midevil city. We were picked up at out hotel by someone dressed as the 'night watchman' that the old city would have had. We walked around and he told us stories and facts. It was a great day.

Then it was Tuesday. We had the whole morning to run around Rottenburg and do what we pleased. Many of u tried a 'snowball'. They are a Rottenburg specialty that's bacically doughnut batter fried and put into the shape of a ball before being dippen in chocolate. There was also one of the largest christmas stores in the world in that small town, and the midevil crime museum. There was so much to do and see, no one wanted to leave, but we had to go on to our next destination. Chemnitz. After 4 long hours on the bus, we finally arived with just enough time to change into our concert dress and run off to the church where we were preforming. The concert had over 100 people in attendance! And it wass absolutly beautiful. We performed very well and were all very happy with how the concert went. We're all beginning to feel the tour catching up with us, and are quite tired this morning, but we're all looking forward to the days events. Today we'll see where Bach grew up and lived his life. It'll be a great day

<3 Annie Lawler

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From Falcon Tour Blogger Annie Lawer: Amazing Day in Munich!

Hello again everyone. Our 2nd full day in Germany was just as amazing and busy as the first! Although today was a little more gloomy than yesterday. It was raining most of the afternoon. The morning was very nice though, made even better by an amazing preformance at St. Lucas Church. We preformed at the easter service and then had a short concert. The service was beautiful and an amazing cultural experience. And the concert was well attended, and we sounded AMAZING in the cathedral space. It was amazing to sing in there. Later that day we went to the BMW museum for lunch and then to Osterfest (the easter festival in Munich) where most of us went up in the Olympiaturm. The Olympiaturm was a tall tower very similar to the space needle in Seatle, but even taller! The view from the top was amazing. You could see for miles! The Osterfest took place on the grounds where the olympics took place in the 70's. It's really ana fantastic place. The stadium and the pool are completley covered with fiberglass structures that were absolutly beautiful. After leaving the Osterfest we went to the "Typically Munich" museum, which had tons to see. History from every side. There was fashion, art, musical instruments, puppets, statues, models, weapons, pictures, and so much more from all throughuut Munich's history. There was hardly enough time to see everything, but our busy schedule called and we had to run off to dinner at the Hofbräuhaus, one of Germanys most famous beer halls. Don't worry though parents, anyone in our group under 21 couldn't have anything but water to drink :). We had another typical bavarian style dinner while listening to live music and watching live dance shows. It was an amazing end to an amazing last day in Munich. Tomorrow we pick up again and move to Rothenburg. These last two days have been super busy, and even though we're all having a blast I'm sure I'm not just speaking for myself when I say that I'm looking forward to the downtime the drive will give us.
-Annie Lawler

From Falcon Tour Blogger Annie Lawer: 1st full day in Germany!

Hey everyone! This is Annie Lawler (a senior at CV) writing you from Germany! That's right, we made it safe and sound, and had an excellent first day here. The flight over was quite smooth and was filled with entertainment :). We each had a personal screen in the seat back in front of us so we could watch a huge selection of movies and TV shows or even listen to the CD's they provided. We landed nearly an hour ahead of schedule and on the way to the hotel enjoyed a short tour of Munich. Later that night we had an amazing Bavarian dinner at the hotel before knocking out for the night ... or most of it at least. Most of us experienced a not so wanted case of waking up at 3 in the morning unable to fall back asleep for at least an hour. I'm looking forward to tonight when we'll all really get some sleep. Today we went on a real tour of Munich, seeing the grounds where they held the olympics in the 70's, the english gardens, and the glokenspiel. We then had the afternoon completley to ourselves to do whatever we wanted. Most people ended up going into a few of the magnificently ornate churches and at least one museum. There was so much to do, on so little sleep it was a little overwelming. At 6 we got back together for dinner at the Augustiner. We all had an amazing day and are really looking forward to tomorrow when we'll have our first preformance at St. Lucas cathedral. Hoping to figure out this crazy keyboard and how to put pictures up soon, I'll write more tomorrow after a good long night of sleep.
Auf Wiedersehen!
Annie :)