Day 11 Washington DC

After yesterday's fantastic performances and the fun of the "singing dinner" we all enjoyed another little sleep in, with a 10am call for rehearsal in preparation for some new songs in tonight's concert.

After this, a quick trip to our favourite Supermarket for lunch (a place called Shoppers) where you can get excellent salads and sushi, plus fruit salad and lots of fresh fruit and snacks. We boarded the bus again for a quick tour around Washington DC stopping at the Lincoln Memorial (with the big statue of him sitting in the chair) and the White House for photo opportunities. Will get them posted as soon was we can!

We had a very qucik trip to the National Cathedral - the 6th largest Cathedral in the world - simply spectacular, but not enough time to do it justice really. We did manage to sing in the Abbey, which had a beautiful acoustic - again - hoping to get it on the YAV Facebook page soon.

The afternoons workshop was hosted by Young Adelaide Voices at another gorgeous Church called the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church. We had great fun teaching choirs from Africa, Czech Republic, Canada, Colombia and the USA "Sesere Eeeye" with Meredith, Casey and Emma Louise teaching the movements. They all got to learn it very quickly, and it was a great sight to see them all dacing and singing to this wonderful Australian song. (When I returned to the hotel, I entered the lift with some of the African choir still singing the song! How lovely!) We also taught them how to make the bird noises from Currawong Dreaming - which brough much amusement to them all. Could not say they had any decent Kookaburras though - its s special talent Emma Louise and Sana have!

The concert tonight featured Childrens Choirs, including Childrens Chorus of Washington (their home turf!) Zvonky-Praha (quickly becoming a favourite - they are really good!) Cantare Childrens CHoir (did a great set tonight) Minnetonka Chamber Choir (just lovely voices!) and then finished with Young Adelaide Voices.

Kevin the Kangaroo made his North American debut - lots of photo opporunities, and good CD sales too - will be a nice bonus when we return!

We returned to the hotel to pack and get some sleep for an early rise tomorrow and a 6 hour bus ride to Pittsburgh. Goodbye Washington - look out Cincinnati - HERE WE COME!!!!!