The LAST Recital-Not Without It's Own Excitement

Last night was the LAST recital! We are finally done with the dance season. Other than the two week Summer Intensive coming up week after next, no more dance until September. The recital was absolutely WONDERFUL. I am continually amazed at the professionalism of these performances.

But before I get to the recital...before I GOT to the recital...there was a little excitement thrown in. Last week, you may remember, there was the kidney stone incident. This week was a little less painful. On the way to the recital I had a flat tire. FLAT. Driving along on highway 18, I heard a very loud noise, as if I had run over a large limb in the road. But I didn't see anything. At that point, I believe God took hold of my vehicle. We were not running late, but we weren't as early as I would have liked to be. About 1/2 mile from the turn to go to HCC where the recital was to take place, there is a little road with a Sonic on it. I was chatting with my mom who was with us, and not paying close attention, and turned on the little road with the Sonic instead of the entrance to the college. I have gone to HCC a total of 6 times, 4 in the last week, so I have no idea why I made that wrong turn. No idea except that God turned me there. We laughed, and I pulled into Sonic, made a joke about the detour, and turned back out onto the little side road. At that point I felt and heard the grinding noise. My mom said, "What was that??" I knew. I knew my tire was flat. No question. We pulled into the grass on the side of the road (the little road, NOT the busy highway) and got out to look. Yep. Flat! Uh oh...

Kearsdad was about 3 minutes behind me. He had just called to see where we were and tell me he was right behind us. I called him and told him where we were. He was there in less than 2 minutes. I moved the girls, mom and all the costumes and dance paraphernalia to his truck and took them on to the auditorium with instructions to save us 2 seats. Then I went back to meet Kearsdad.

Meanwhile, Kearsdad had walked to the auto parts store that was right next to the Sonic! Did I already mention God had taken control? He put me by an auto parts store! Kearsdad was in the process of filling my tire with Fix-a-Flat. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it wasn't working. We went back to the store and bought stuff to plug the hole. It worked. Kearsdad sent me back to the auditorium. He took my car and finished filling the tire with air. He pulled into the parking lot right behind me. We had time to go to the restroom, and we were in our seats 5 minutes before start time! Talk about miracles!!!

So we were able to relax and enjoy the show. Like I said, it was absolutely beautiful! Most of the pics below are actually from dress rehearsal...

(Banana is on the front row, about center of the picture.)

(This one is very blurry, but I still thought it was good...look at that jump!)

Here are Banana and Kat after the performance. Look at how sweet they are. One of the greatest blessing of being their mom is watching how much they love and support each other. They are each other's biggest fans.

By the way, the tire plug held! Kearsdad drove it home last night. Today I am driving the orange truck. My red one is getting it's rear passenger side tire patched.