The Eleventh Day - Cincinnati to Chesterfield Missouri, just outside St. Louis

Day 11 - After the morning drive we stopped at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby.  We toured the museum, saw a retired thoroughbred, lots of crazy hats and someone may have taken some dirt from the actual racetrack.  We saw a newly installed movie on a screen that wraps around you 360 degrees.  You sit on a stool that you can rotate to see the movie from all angles.  Very cool.  It is apparently the most advanced digital screen in the world.  Kids, and some adults, dressed up as jockeys and climbed on horses and had a good time.

After a longer afternoon drive, made more entertaining because of a wonderful care package sent by Marci Fjelstad, we arrived in Chesterfield for tonight's concert.  It was another lovely church with a beautiful sanctuary.  The choir is performing in some amazing places on this tour.  We had our first pasta dinner, appreciated by all, and had a goodish crowd for the concert.  

The kids have gotten a standing ovation at every concert, but tonight they got two - the first after their no sheet music rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.  

We welcomed a couple of former ringers to the concert.  Dave Haun, who makes a trip to see the choir nearly every summer, drove up from Texas.  In total he's traveled over 20,000 miles over the years to attend concerts, over 16,000 of them by motorbike.  This year it was an over 800 mile trip by car.  Dave brought his daughter from Texas, and former ringer Stephanie Liebman also attended with her family in tow.

Jenn had friends and family in town for the concert as well, and Terry Waite's mother in law came and said hello to everyone and Mike Hampton's cousin was also in attendance.  

Ed reminded everyone who is really in charge.

See if you can spot the several places in which we photoshopped these images: