By Bella Brisson ‘26

This was a very jam-packed day full of travel and a concert. We started bright and early at the hotel for breakfast/waiting for the bus (Maybe a little too early - we were all very sleepy still). We then got on the bus and headed for Tallahassee!

We of course had to make a lunch stop, and we picked a nice mall not too far from our concert venue. I wasn’t even sure if this was our Tallahassee mall because they all started to look the same after a while. A very popular lunch among the Chorus was Chic-fil-a. I got a chicken teriyaki dish for some much-needed vegetable intake.

This picture of our lovely Sophie Spindler ‘28, came after she took pictures of all of us with this tiny foam finger we found in the merch suitcase. I believe this series of pictures can be found on the Instagram. This was just another fun thing that happened on the bus to pass the time.

Finally we arrived at our venue, the lovely Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas More right near the FSU campus. I only got this picture during our time here, because we were super busy going right into rehearsal and then preparing for our concert. This concert was non-secular music only, so we actually brought in some pieces that were exclusive to this venue, such as “Long Time Traveller” arr. The Wailin’ Jennys, and “Illumina le tenebre” by Joan Szymko. It was a lovely concert and nice reception afterwards. This venue was fun and reminded us of Ithaca, because we actually found hills in Florida!

We ended our day in Tallahassee with a dip in the hotel pool. These pictures are from before most of the Chorus arrived, and we ended up having about 20 choristers in the pool splashing around while singing some of our favorite tour rep. It was a great end to a long day, and we were all ready to go sleep afterwards and leave for NOLA in the morning!