Yes, It’s Another “Where’s Mr Papa?”
August 1, 2008
Where in the heck did the last week go? It was nothing but a blur. That’s good in some respects and bad in others. As to my website updates, it was bad. Sorry for the lack of updates over the last week.
A pop up business trip opportunity became available for next week and it has nice potential. So of course, spent a lot of time the last week prepping for the trip. It’s probably a 2 hour meeting, but a day of travel each way. Luckily, its to a beach town on the Ocean, so will definitely get some ocean time. 
I have also been hard at work on the wordpress simple:press forum plugin that I help develop. A few weeks ago we got out a bug fix and minor change version to the community. Now, for the first time in a while, we are actually working on adding some cool new features which means more fun coding than bug fixes. If interested, you can follow the development along on our trac site.
Savannah also decided she wanted a website. She has been really getting into youtube – as you probably have noticed with the recent videos we have posted here. She has quite a group of “friends” over there and is constantly exchanging messages and such. Of course, that means we have to go through there periodically and check up on the who/what/etc.
So in addition to the youtube stuff, she decided she wanted a blog. So I obliged here and created her a blog. On her blog, she wants to review movies, tv shows, music, video games and other stuff. If family members want to email us for a link we will be happy to send it along to you so you can check out its humble beginnings. I haven’t posted it here, just to keep the two blogs unassociated.
Suzanne and the kids have been busy dancing, as usual. The Summer Recital is tomorrow night so there has been a rash o dress rehearsals. Mr Papa will be in the audience enjoying the show.
The kids start back to school next week so Suzanne is happy. She gets all her free time back to herself. The kids, of course, would rather see the Summer season extended. They have been busy during the Summer preparing a powerpoint presentation on some of the places we will be going on our Cruise this fall and kind of picking where they want to go in the ports. We will have a big family gathering not too far in the future to review these and solidify the cruise port plans.
With the exception of the business trip next week, I hope to resume regular blogging patterns soon.
Summer Dance Recital
June 8, 2008
This weekend was the annual Summer dance recital for Suzanne and the kids and their Alma Dolores International Dance Studio. This is a two night performance of the all the kids and adults that have been working on dances since the end of the year show.
The first night is usually a fun, high energy performance where they pick some musical or theme and have small and large groups performing. Friday night, the theme was Dora the Explorer for the little kids (8 and under) and then Hair Spray for the older dancers.
Its a pretty long show at about 2 1/2 hours. I always get to sit in the audience by myself since everyone else is dancing. I love to watch the kids dance but I do get tired of the four year olds that kind of just stand there. Its great for their parents and family – I was there at one point. As usual the kids and Suzanne did great.
The second night is a more artistic night. You get the ballet, lyrical and contemporary type dancing. This year, they did the dances to the music of Cirque de Solei. They also added in the international dances (Irish, Mexican, Spanish, Middle East, etc) and they use appropriate music.
The second night was again about 2 1/2 hours and the kids did great. Sean had the Irish hard shoe going good and Savannah really got into her hip hop routine. I still think hip hop is her strongest dance genre, but Suzanne keeps pushing the other stuff. She really enjoys the Mexican folklorico and Spanish Flamenco dancing too. Sean had limited dances this year because most of his time was spent with his 14 – 2 baseball team. He may try to sneak in a few more classes (like hip hop and break dancing) this summer, but football season is rapidly approaching.
I had hoped to post some pictures of the dance recital, but on the first night Suzanne had the camera set up wrong for the first half (yes, I should have checked her settings), plus I forgot the tripod which is really needed for the darkness of the theater. Then, I forgot the camera on the second night. Oh well, no pictures this year.
Next up for the dancers is the Showstopper National Dance Competition in Anaheim this coming July. Due to the all the vacations we are taking this year (Pechuls reunion in Mar, Klasen reunion in June, Grandmother’s 90th birthday in August, and our cruise in November), I will not be attending the competition.
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