Friday

First half of Friday was pretty relaxing, it was a normal day. Took Ethan to math, went to Hannah's to practice a dance,picked up Jack from school (half day), and then had to get ready for a show.

We wer scheduled to perform at Relay for Life at 6pm and then again at 11pm. I left at 430pm, took kids to Dad, then picked up Hannah. We drove to Todds stadium. We got lucky with parking but it was HOT and we had to carry our big hula bin, the headdresses, and the drum. So we made it to the entrance and we just sat there and waited for the other girls. The 6pm show Neely couldn't go to because Noveigh had a dance banquet. So once Dusty and Krista showed up we made our way to the stage. We dropped our stuff off and then walked to the bathroom to put on half of the costuming. I was sweating so bad just from walking cause it was humid. At 6pm we went on, the show went very well. Dusty had to do the talking for the first time and I was nervous about it but she rocked.

After that show we watched the opening ceremony, and walked around and checked the place out. We had to wait around until 11pm so we had way to much time to kill. Neely got there around 830/9...Krista had left cause she couldn't do the 2nd show.

My mother showed up with the boys to watch, I was nervous cause it was so late I thought they would be awful but they weren't...they did good.
We went on at 11pm, we had a way better crowd the 2nd time around....it went great I loved it!
It had cooled down, I was kinda cold actually so that helped. Weather turned out to be perfect and BOTH shows were awesome. But boy was I exhausted. I didn't get home till 1230am....I crashed hard when I got home. Of course that was after getting a few dishes washed, making sure the boys uniforms were in the dryer, feeding the dog, checking both toilets and if they were flushed, and preparing everything for today which was baseball day.....next blog lol

Relay for life is a wonderful cause and we were thrilled we got to be involved....people raved and i'm sure we will be asked to come again next year.

Navy show

This morning we had a Hula show. This was on down at the Norfolk navel station. They were having an Asianpacific appreciation day and they wanted some Hula dancers. This was a free/donation show. I had to be up at 630am to get my hair and makeup done. And then the kids up and dressed. We went to my mom's house by 730am. Dusty, Krista, Hannah, Neely met us there. My mother was kind enough to stay home from work to watch all the kids. She had my 2, Dusty's 3, Neely's 2 and Hannah's 1.....and she had to watch theseus when Marisha went to work and Ethan. So total in the house she had 10 kids all by herself lol she's a pro! Ages were 11,8,7,7,7,5,4,1,1,1.

So we head down to Norfolk and to the navy ID office where we were meeting a Cheif Hicks. We got there early. We were supposed to meet him there at 830am but we got there at 8am. We waited and waited and waited....it was almost 9am and he still wasn't there. We decided to drive around the parking lot to look for him and some lady stopped us and said "are you the hula girls" and we said yes and she said "chief hicks just left, he waited for you but had to leave". I was soooooooo mad. Dipwad didn't even bother to look around the parking lot for my car...instead he assumed we weren't there yet and just sat and waited.

So after he left he called my cell, I told him we were there waiting, and he said he'd send someone to get us. After this long wait we finally got escorted onto the base and into their theater.

We got there and had to rush and get our stuff on. We found that there were some other dancers there...some Samoan dancers. This was very intimidating...we still have the white girl complex and think everyone is judging us.

After we got dressed we went on, our show rocked! Everyone loved it! We had tons of participation. We got the chiefs and captians up and dressed them up and made them dance...it was hilarious.
After the show, we sat and watched the Samoan dancers...they were neat but not incredibly good. The adults were singing and playing instruments which was cool. but the young girls dancing looked miserable like they were forced to dance.
After they were done Chief hicks called us back on the stage for a last bow and we got a standing ovation. I was shocked and so thrilled they liked us that much!
We had tons of people coming up to us asking for cards, asking how I moved my hips that fast, we even had the Samoan speaker tell us about the polynesian fest this year and told us were really good and should dance at it. That was a super shock! It's one thing to be NICE and say we did a good job..it's another to tell us we are good enough to perform at the Polynesian fest.

It was very cool!! They are going to send us the pics taken by their photographer so i'll get pics sometime and i'll post them

Recent Hula Shows

Friday night we had a Hula show in Yorktown. It was for a 6yr olds birthday party. Nothing to spectacular, just a normal average show. It was in a huge house though. She gave us her bedroom as a dressing room and it was amazing! They enjoyed the show and so did we.

Today we had anotheer show. This one was in Va beach, again for a child's birthday. A little boy turning 8yrs old. I think we were there more for the Mother then for the boy...he didn't seem to care.

This show we had some issues at. They needed us to bring our own sound system, but then Chris forgot to pack the power cord. We ended up having to use their tiny boombox that no one could hear. The kids enjoyed the show, but there was a misunderstanding about how long we would be dancing. So when we stopped the Mother asked us why we weren't doing more @@ She just didn't hear me on the phone but whatever...I had already given her a discount. So we stayed longer and did more teaching, but had more cd issues. The wind was blowing like crazy so our Tahitian headdresses were hard to keep on. All in all it was just a stressful show. But it's over and done with and i'm happy.

The pics are from today's show, in the bathroom as we were getting ready before the show.