Rebecca's Belk Theater Debut/Father's Day

Rebecca had her dance debut at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Belk Theater today. That is like, a real venue! (The premier venue in Charlotte in fact). She performed with her classmates from Miss Donna's School of Dance, which has four dance studios around Charlotte. Miss Donna has been teaching dance in Charlotte for over 50 years. In addition to her four studios, she also has a class at the JCC on Wednesday afternoons, which Rebecca and some of her school friends have attended this whole past year. There were students of all ages participating in the recital; many were very accomplished dancers! Rebecca's class, of course, was one of the youngest (though not quite the youngest; I think there were even a couple of two year old classes who performed). The recital was really long, like probably 3 hours, though we left after Rebecca's performance, two hours in, because we were all STARVING (the show started at 1 and we had not eaten lunch). The house was packed with an estimated 3,000 people, so Joel and the rest of the crew sat at the balcony level, and I managed to find my way into a single third row seat after dropping Rebecca backstage, so I stayed there. My video camera angle was not the best, since I was to one side of the stage and Rebecca was on the other side, but I did the best I could...

Here is the video of her performance --



And here is my little dancer after the show! Way to go Rebecca & friends!

After we left we walked down the street to Ri-Ra for a late lunch / early dinner, which was an appropriate restaurant choice for the occasion and for father's day, because the last time Joel and I were at Ri-Ra was the night before Rebecca was born. How nice to return with our amazing daughter over 4 1/2 years later! After we ate we had one more stop to make on the way home, which was to the Apple store where we treated Joel's Dad to a new MacBook Pro as a combination late birthday/father's day gift. (Joel's father's day present is a Kindle, but unfortunately it's not arriving until later this week). Happy father's day all!