Summer Sizzle: The Trip Home

Day 5 marked the beginning of our long trip home. We packed up and left our hotel by 7 AM and started our drive back to Winnipeg. The scenery was beautiful. We had to make one more stop in Minnedosa at our new favourite spot, the Chipperfield Coffee Company.  We made it to Winnipeg in good time, although the traffic there slowed us down a bit!

Our flight was only slightly delayed and we left Winnipeg just after 5 PM. Getting into Pearson International Airport was a bit tricky, and we had to circle back around before landing due to stormy weather. We landed in Toronto just before 9 PM local time, and I think everyone was glad to be back on the ground. Some of us went our separate ways and the airport while the rest of us carpooled back up north towards Owen Sound. During the drive we recounted our experiences over the past five days; it was definitely a trip to remember.

~Jen

Canada Music Week/Blue Snowball Mic Trial #2

November 17th to 23rd, 2013 is Canada Music Week... it's a week to celebrate, support and promote everything to do with Canadian music.  Yay!  This friday our local registered music teachers group (ORMTA) is hosting a student recital in celebration, and the program features twenty different Canadian composers.  Stay tuned for highlights from this recital...

But for this post I am choosing to feature one of my favourite Canadian composers, Alexina Louie.

Blue Snowball Mic Trial #1

So for some reason the GarageBand app on my iPad mini isn't supporting my new usb mic (and I even bought a special adapter cable for it!) so I had to move my computer in order to use the mic today.  I had the piano tuned less than a week ago and the microphone seems pretty foolproof, so I hope it sounds good!  I could definitely use a crash course in GarageBand but that is another story...