Back home from Galveston and starting the countdown to departure from Austin airport. What a day yesterday! Great performances on all dances with 3 eligible for 1st Place Outstanding out of the top 20. Hip Hop earns 10th place and the countdown began...9th, 8th.......3rd, 2nd...and no more announced for Center Stage...2 more numbers left and both received PLATINUM....strange
...and then we hear "There's a tie for 1st place
...one first place award to CENTER STAGE for
LAZY RIVER" (my absolute favorite tap number the Princess has been in!) ... and she's SUPER excited accepting the award...
"TIED with CENTER STAGE
ICE OF PHOENEX" (the modern dance number...class was on Wednesday evenings and she had confirmation so couldn't take that class this year):
I have never seen those girls...and their teachers so excited! Ms. Amber (owner of the studio) found me and said, "This is ALMOST as good as dancing at Disney World!"...she was stunned...the studio has never had 2 numbers tie for 1st place OUTSTANDING! They were so excited they went TO THE BEACH in their costumes to take pictures!
But then...what could make the day better???
Receiving a text from SIL with a picture of Redstorm and her Spanish mackerel and king fish (keeper fish) ... and word she'd also landed...all by herself (as per rules of the tournament), but it was "catch and release", a
125 pound tarpon!
As her soccer coach said (her daughter dances with the Princess)..."that fish weighs more than SHE does"! That tarpon was the largest one caught Friday by anyone
...adult, young adult or child! Talked to her last night and she was EXHAUSTED!
They'll be home tomorrow; Monday we celebrate her 16th birthday with a family dinner at her favorite restaurant and Tuesday morning we're off for the airport at 5 AM!
More posts later and I'll get a new crop up but unpacking to get done now so I can start packing for Disney tomorrow!
on Daytona Beach now.
