Good for her, and best wishes next year.
A week on the cook truck? WOW that is nice of you to do that! What a chore that is. I've done it for three years for various corps. I've never worked so hard in my life, but would do it again in a heartbeat!
Your days will go like this....
6am - pull into some town (you will have no idea where you are) open the cook truck and make breakfast for 200 people.
Hop in a van and make a quick Walmart run for bread and milk. (People will ask "How many kids do you have" when they see how much you are buying!
Come back, put grocerys away, and prepare lunch for the same 200 people.
Start dinner, and perhaps grab a quick nap on some high school gym floor.
Grab a quick cold shower (they turn off the hot water in high schools in the summer)
Serve dinner, clean, and pack up the cook truck and head to the show.
Prepare a snack, put it in the oven to keep warm, and go watch your kids perform.
Serve snack, clean, load the truck and head off to the next town. You will sleep in some sort of vehicle going 55 MPH down some highway. You will learn to love truck stop and concession stand food, because its the only food YOU dont have to prepare!
It's the same every day, just different citys and towns each day. It's work, work, and more work. If you see corn your probably in the Midwest. If it's un Godly hot, your probably in Oklahoma!
But when some strange kid comes up to you in a parking lot and askes you which kid is yours, and you reply "I dont really have a kid in the corps, I'm just here to help" and the kid looks at you with that "I wish my Mom or Dad would do this for me look", it makes the whole day pricesless!
I still have kids all over the country that call me "Dad".
WOW
