A Very Expensive Concert

1) Nine months of Saturday's
2) $1000+ for lessons
3) $80 for tickets
Seeing your daughter take the big stage in front of 1500 people and nail her routine? Priceless.

The dance school Callie goes to is located just a few blocks from our house. Kerry and Callie spend Saturday mornings running back and forth to ballet and tap and this past Saturday it was time for her year end recital. This year was a three hour event with a them of 'Musicals' and literally hundred's of dancers. They do a good job of mixing up the various routines so that you go from cute kids to near professionals to 'everyone else' so you stay interested for most of the night. Kerry's parents were down for the event and Reg and I didn't fall asleep so it must of been good.

Callie's first routine was ballet. She is still in that cute kid age group where the routines are fairly simple and her teachers are on stage walking them through the steps. The first couple of age groups always get the biggest applause and there is something special about the way they wave to the audience and bump into each other trying to figure out which direction they are supposed to exit. There were a total of eight kids in her ballet class and everyone did an amazing job.

Her second routine was tap and it was Callie's first year for this discipline. I like that it's not the loud obnoxious tap dancing. There were only four kids in this class including one little girl who barely moved during open house day a few months ago but seemed much more at ease under the bight lights. Probably a good thing that it's difficult to see the audience when you get up there.

Just like the pros everyone buys the kids flowers and their is a flourish of flashes as parents try to capture pictures. Dance is over till the fall where Callie is moving on to four times a week. Looking forward to next years recital.