I must say, the parade went pretty well. There were a few hiccups in the practices, but once the parade stepped off the troops really brought it all together.
Wish I could say the same for the band, but thanks to some rehearsal issues, some lack of communication, and carrying the pipes to the City Hall, we sounded a little 'off'.
We were fairly out of tune when we finally played as our pipes were tuned before we stepped off but we carried them all the way to the City hall with out playing and the tuning just faded away. Besides that, we had a replacement bass drummer who had little experience with some of the tunes we had to play, and as a result our 'Royal Salute' sounded horrible. (The bass drummer beat a quick march and the Royal Salute is a slow march... caused much confusion.)
Besides all that, the Parade was good. And after the parade, the members of the Regiment had a chance to talk to the Prince virtually one on one. We were broken down to groups of roughly 10 - 15 and his highness came around a spoke to each group for roughly 10 min each. He's quite an interesting fellow.
The Dinner (Regimental Colours Ball) was excellent; good food and great company.
Here are some pictures:
The Regiment Marching with no Bayonets, colours or music playing.
The band
The Prince (left) and our Honourary Colonel (Right)
The Regimental Colour being uncased
Regimental Colours flying
His Royal Highness watching the proceedings
The Regiment marching back to the Armoury with Drums Beating, Bayonets fixed and Colours flying.
The Band
Yours truely, playing my new pipes with the band
I have some videos, but I am in the process of editing them. I will post a link once complete.