For Isabel's last day of school, they went to Playworld in Grandville for a party!! Isabel had tons of fun, although she is a little sad about school being over. But she is very excited about next year!
This is how most of my pictures turned out:
I surprised her with this one, since she wouldn't stand still.
Having fun bouncing with Jainyn
Isabel and Jainyn with their teachers, Miss Julie and Miss Jessica
Friday, we went to Holland to the Tulip Time Festival. Since I grew up in Holland, its not all that exciting, at least, it wasn't until I had Isabel. Now, she gets so excited about going every year, I get excited too! And as a bonus, this is the 2nd time in over 5 years that I'm not working at a very busy hotel filled with tourists this week! Yay for having babies! Anyway, we didn't make it to any parades, but we did get to see the Dutch Dancing!
Here, the dancers (high school kids) are lining up for inspection. The Festival takes their dancing very seriously. Each costume is handmade and authentic. There are very strict guidelines, from patterns to even fabrics. This years there were 9 different female costumes, and 7 different male costumes to choose from.
Now, in case its not obvious enough in this picture, these dancers are about 2.5 feet from the audience. They are wearing slip on wooden shoes. Luckily, they are also wearing about 10 pairs of socks to keep the shoes from slipping off while dancing. However, I've seen that happen. Also, more frequently, the shoes sometimes crack in half during a dance. Where we were sitting, I think it happened to 2 different dancers. And they just kept on dancing in their socks!
Here you can better see some of the costume variety.
This dance move looks like a big Windmill made of Dancers, appropriate since THE Holland is land of the Windmills!
Cael wasn't so sure about all the dancing.
Isabel smelling some pretty red tulips!
Me and the kids!
The kiddos
We had fun, and ended the day with a yummy elephant ear! Yay for Tulip Time!!