Caroline Kaliedoscope

Last weekend, Caroline had her dance performance. This year she was in four dances. The first one was called "Cultivating Entropy". Before it started, Miles and Geni had a nice nerdy discussion about whether this was possible or not. Miles didn't get it, but Geni said that is what she has been doing in her house for ages....These photos are from dress rehearsal, so not great, but you get the idea. It's hard to point out where she is in this one, I am not sure myself...

Same with this one, she is in the front on the right, just believe me....
In this one she is right in front of the person whose hands are illuminated....Aha! Here she is in the middle!! Many people told me this dance was one of their favorite pieces...

Here she is on the far right doing a spin in a Jitterbug dance during "Simply Ellington".


Here she is on the far right, as a crow during "99Crows on a Wire".
In this pic, she is 3rd from the left with her hands over her head.

It was a great show....she was fantastic. Such a tiring weekend, though, after 4 performances and a cast party, she had to sleep in a bit on Monday morning. She loves it, though, and the week after is a bit of a letdown, since they have been preparing for it all year!

Provo! Finally, sheesh.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in August, Caroline and I went to Provo Utah, to Brigham Young University for a Dance conference. I have to say that in my life I never expected to set foot on the BYU campus, but there you go. There were about 21 kids on the plane, and 6 chaperones. Here is Viv, Caroline and Emily, so excited to be going to Utah. Ah the innocence of youth...

The day we arrived was about 6000 degrees, and we had to walk across a super hot parking lot a couple of times that was all melty. After we got registration all sorted out, we went back to the hotel to change (clothes must cover shoulders and knees!) went back across the super hot parking lot, to have dinner at this banquet. It was outside and totally pleasant, with lots of ice water and lemonade which we all drank a ton of. There is no coffee in sight. Good thing I packed my own melita, filters that I carefully cut down, travel mug, hot pot, and one pound of ground Tully's French Roast.

After dinner, there was entertainment. We had performances, square and contra-dancing, and Cowboy Poetry. If you do not know about Cowboy Poetry, check it out, this guy was awesome!




There was lots of dancing every day. Caroline is not this picture, she seems to be out of frame in every one....


Caroline got the opportunity to learn this very cool Native American dance, called a Hoop Dance She got up to 4 hoops, here she and Viv show off "The World".
Here is a video of it:

HOOP DANCE



Happy children at the last night's banquet. Then there was more entertainment with Native American Dance, and Caroline's teacher showed us her moves. It is really amazing.




After the conference was the day we got to toodle around Salt Lake City. We went to Temple Square, which was predictably weird. The girls wanted a closer look at this gigantic door.Temple.


During the tour, Caroline got her photo with the giant Jesus.After the tour was over, these nice ladies sang us a song about God.

Then we went to a giant mall. I don't know if you can read this, but this store sells "world-famous" cat crap!!



I got a coffee instead, just because I could.
We were glad to get home to the world of optional sleeves and abundant caffeine!!

Catch-up...

Well, the last entry was from Disneyland in April. We have actually done some interesting things since then, but I have been busy and distracted , I guess. Here is a short recap:

There was Passover at Peggys.... I once again channeled somebody's Bubbie and made Matzo Ball Soup, here I am checking on it before we go:
It was good. Here are some of the guests:
That's the always-charming Jane, wife of our very own local celeb, Robert Nellems next to her, then Geni, Roy, Kristina and the legs of our host, Jim. I don't have a picture of Peggy!

Me, Geni and Beth in the kitchen. Don't ask, but this was right after we got there, so we cannot blame all the Passover wine.
I think that Nick told us to pose, and as ever, we are compliant.
Then it was Spring:
Rick had a surprise party. And he was surprised!
Then it snowed again.

The novelty of the Spring Snowfall has totally worn off.
Miles won this in a Math Competition:
Nick went to see The Eels.
And Caroline spent a long tiring weekend performing in this show:
This one is called "Storm at Sea"
Shes' in the middle in the light yellow shirt.


In this one she is on the far right:
And in this one she is in the middle. This dance is called "Disaster!!" and this is when the alien spaceship lands.
A busy time we have had!! Hopefully the summer will provide a lot of photos....