this photo was taken as francis and i walked towards our church for the good friday night service. it was 7 o'clock and the sky was hinting with sunset; the tree blossoms were radiant. not that you can really capture that with a cell-phone, but, still, i aim and click the buttons.
saturday arrived gorgeously bright and sunny. francis had a school dance performance downtown at mccaw hall.
it was a school assignment, basically. many seattle schools participated, and for the past few months, his school's 4th grade classes have had a dancer from PNB come every friday and teach them some basic dance steps, and then the kids in each class worked on a dance of their own to perform. each class picked their own song and theme. it was quite a production, and the kids had a really great time. francis said it was really fun to be on stage, and not as scary as he thought it would be. in between each school's performances, we were treated to real ballet performances from PNB dancers. and to end out the program, was a hip-hop number from REACH! Student Dance Group. after the show, when i collected francis, he excitedly told me: did you see that last dance? that was awesome! greg was very sad to have to miss it, and my sneaky cell-phone pictures (no photos allowed!) did no justice at all. i had to be content with pictures after the show.
after that, we wandered seattle center, got an elephant ear and chai teas, and enjoyed the sunshine. i had enough change for francis to enjoy a round of mini-golf, and i enjoyed people watching. and taking more pictures with my cell-phone. (more on my flickr page)
we took the monorail again (2 times in 2 weekends! and front row this time)
and then we hopped on the bus home. we had just enough time for a quick supper before we headed out again to see our friend chris bowden and his band: other desert cities, play a show at Q Cafe. francis cracked me up. he was very excited to see all his (grown-up) friends at the show, and wanted to stand by them. and talk with them. like one of them. fresh off his looney tunes kick, he's been saying: "what's up, doc?" to everyone. afterwords, karen and kevin came back to our place, to "watch" francis so i could go get greg at the airport at 11pm. rounding out a very busy day, francis went to bed (at 10:30pm mind you) entirely disappointed to be reminded that he was a child and needed to go to bed!
easter sunday arrived with pouring rain. such a departure from the day before! but the service was good, and i got tears in my eyes when i could hear francis deciding to sing along, his little chirpy voice scooping along, trying to follow the notes to songs he didn't know. there's just something about children singing whole-heartedly that just chokes me up. they are still so innocent.
we enjoyed a wonderful easter brunch with friends, hosted at the many's. and then, it stopped raining. the sun came out! the kids had in indoor egg hunt, and then we decided to head (quick! before the sun goes away!) to the university of washington campus, where the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.(if you haven't already, go check them out! they won't last much longer!) the bright sun was deceiving; it was bitterly cold with a whipping wind, but we lasted for about an hour. just long enough to get red noses and not feel guilty to go home and veg out for the remainder of the day.
4 comments:
So glad for the reminder of the cherry blossoms. I had grand schemes when El was born to plop her among them each year as a way of documenting her growth, but alas, she's still yet to see them...maybe next kid.
Nice you got to take advantage of the 'Fun Forest' as well, I hear that will be taken out soon.
Dave mentioned seeing/talking to Francis at the Q Cafe. Saying "Francis was all Looney Tunes." I had to ask if he was "acting crazy or Da-a-de-a-dat's All Folks?" :)
i had to google fun forest; i had no idea that was what the carnival at seattle center was called. and so sad to hear they are closing! poor francis always asks to go on rides, and we usually stall, and say "maybe next time". he's also too small for half of them, and too big for half of them! i have never been on the ferris wheel; maybe we should go now?
we had a great time with you guys on Easter. your cell phone pictures turned out way better than my pictures...i had the setting all wrong. bummer.
now its my turn to be envious, i absolutely love the cherry blossoms at UW! looks like you had a beautiful day to enjoy them as well, wish i was there. great pictures, thanks for sharing!
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