May 12, 2007

• Don't know how y'all spent YOUR Saturday afternoon...

  ....but I spent mine being entertained and uplifted by the very finest of ballet action.  
  
  Translation:  Today was Meredith and Margaret's ballet recital, which told the story of Hansel and Gretel.  Here's Margaret's dance:
  
  
  

  
  She's on the far left, next to the bee.  ;^)  And here's Meredith's, where she's fifth from the left:
  
  
  

  
  

  
  BTW, these were shot with my spiffy new toy, my Flip Video.  Works a treat!
  
  Here are some snapshots taken with it, snagged from the video:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By the way, in that last she's not marching to a different drummer....she was leading the pack off the stage. 
   
  The Flip Video stills are alright, but not as good as those taken with my regular camera:

  
  

  

  
  

  That's Margaret sitting in the back, pretty much in the middle.  Each class was a particular element, i.e. flowers (Margaret), cotton candy (Meredith), villagers, etc.  This group perplexed me until the program cleared it up;  they're Hershey's Kisses:

  
  

  

  
  

  Dancing chocolate.  Gotta love it.

  
  

  Finally here came Marebear after her performance, escorted by Elaine:

  
  

  

  
  

  Here are the girls with their dance instructor, whom they are crazy about:

  
  

  

  
  

  I'm a bad, bad Aunt Anne, as I forgot to buy flowers. 

  
  

  Margo Dean, whose studio it is, said this was their 58th spring performance.  Wanna hear something scary?  When I was about 9 years old, *I* took ballet at Margo Dean's studio!  Mercy Maud, how old is she now?

  
  

  

  
  

  Guess ballet keeps one young. 
  

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