Arrival

Just in case you were wondering, the Kingwood Pops Orchestra HAS ARRIVED!! Jet lag was obvious when one listened to the lack of noise after everyone arrived. There was little "buzz" coming from the group of 40+ people who arrived from Munich on the bus. Everyone seemed to catch his/her second wind, however, the next day when stopping at Burghausen. Most of the group immediately took off up the hill to see the largest castle/fortress in Germany. The beauty of the square, however, seemed to catch many people's attention as the detailing of the buildings and the artwork on them was VERY different from those at home. A second stop while on the bus ride to the "Silent Night Chapel" and a view of the river was breathtaking. Small though the chapel was, everyone wanted to take a turn going inside to take a picture and to see the place where "Silent Night" was sung for the first time. That first singing of the now-so-popular Christmas carol was the result of a broken organ and a school master's just happening to have a song that he had written that could be sung with only a guitar for accompaniment.