Cinderella

Josie and Katie's ballet recital was Sunday at the Opera House. Josie was a "Sparkle" and Katie was a jester. Poor Katie had to be there from 2:30 pm as she was in both shows, but the rest of us enjoyed a lovely dinner in town prior to the show. We went to the 7:30 performance as that was the one that Josie was in as well.

This was our first year dancing with Mrs. Tarrant and the girls have enjoyed it very much. I liked that she let the girls sit in the audience, right in the front, and watch the performance while they awaited their turn on stage. I also liked that we only had one day of performances instead of several.
Josie is in the middle without her arms up but smiling away. Mrs. Tarrant says that Josie was "made for the stage" and I think she's right, the girl just loves to perform.
See her leaping front and center?
Katie's role called for more comedy than actual ballet and she delivered. She's on the left of this picture with her hands up.
It was hard to get a good shot as you can tell and after the show they were delivered to us sans costumes so I didn't get a cute shot of them all dressed up. I sent them to the Opera House in makeup and Katie's was immediately scrubbed off and Josie's would have been if they'd had time - who knew?? Oh well - they were beautiful nonetheless.

Things are winding down activity wise here for summer, which is nice, but yesterday I had to take the girls into town for a Musical Stars summer performance rehearsal and was blissfully unaware that it was premier day for "The Lovely Bones". It was blissful until I hit Ghuznee Street at which point I about lost my mind thanks to all the traffic. I've gotten spoiled here - I rarely, if ever, have to deal with traffic and so was surprised by the road rage welling as I sat without moving for almost 30 minutes. I dropped the girls, late at 3:45, and had until 5:30 to get them so I decided to go to a shop in town that is only usually 5 minutes away by car. I spent the next hour navigating the traffic due to the closed streets and never could get to my destination but did finally see signs as to the cause of all the uproar. I do hope it was a good event!

Hope you are all doing well and enjoying these last days in the lead-up to Christmas. Hugs to all.