Busy weekend!

   Finally the first signs of Spring are truly starting to show. The cherry blossoms are blooming and the weather is mild enough to start wearing lighter jackets with brighter smiles. That said I have had quite the busy weekend!

    On Friday I had morning class, which was nice although I was late.  I arrived just as my teacher arrived at the school and apologized immediately. After class we were packed into a bus to go do a performance for an elementary school. The trip there should really only have taken half an hour but for some reason nobody paid much attention as to where the school was. Armed with the GPS our teacher (who also was the driver) decided that the talking lady was completely wrong and ignored her while we drove up and down the mountain. Sitting in the back I just let the chaos continue, no one was particularly worried so we enjoyed the beautiful views of Vancouver while we roamed around in circles.
45 minutes later we seemed to be no closer to finding the school so we made our first phone call asking for directions.
15 minutes later we realized that they had both a senior and junior school and we had received directions to the wrong campus.
30 minutes later after driving in a giant loop at least four times we finally got to the school with half an hour to unpack and get dressed/ re-warmup.
Then they realized that we had only brought half the tutus that were needed...
... It was turning out to be slightly disastrous. In the end we got by, using the swan tutus for the first piece as well as the Swan's variations. The dances all went quite seamlessly I think.  The performance was well received and the elementary students were adorable.
   After we packed up we headed back to the ballet school. Some girls had a runthrough for competition so I watched that for an hour and then we had rehearsal from 5:00 until 7:30. Then I went out for dinner with my parents... a very long day, but enjoyable too.

     Yesterday was also a day packed with rehearsals... my feet died, they have been having an awful time lately. Then I went out for a birthday party at night.
     Today I went downtown to the Art Gallery and had a nice day walking about. I have a constant cramp at the bottom of my foot from when we sat down for lunch... don't know how that happens. I have been massaging it and hopefully it will go away by tomorrow!
   Any ways that is my news for now. I am feeling very relaxed after this busy, but very fun weekend. Tomorrow I am going to be at dance from 9:00-7:00 again. <3
p.s. I reading the book "The 100 Mile Diet" at the moment and would really recommend it!