Mikado

French TV ad for a cookie called Mikado involving a little Star Wars.

Swan Lake Spoof

This is a great video of a Muppet show spoof of Swan Lake with one of the greatest male dancers of all time, Rudolph Nureyev and Miss Piggy. It just goes to show that to do a good spoof, you have to be really good at the thing you're spoofing! This is from one of the most melodramatic scenes in the whole ballet.

Britains Got Talent - Bessie One Fair Lady and more

This little girl is incredible!

Quick Update...sort of...

Hi y'all! Wow, it has been a disgracefully long time since I have posted! :) Sooooo much has happened! Daniel is engaged to be married to a wonderful young lady by the name of Lydia Smith, and I could not hope for a more Godly or sweeter sister in law! I am going to be a bridesmaid! The wedding is June 14th.

School goes on as always with Great Books, Astronomy, Biology, and Anatomy. The restaurant keeps us busy but tired. We finally started pointe in ballet in November, and now we are getting ready for the spring recital. Our costumes are so pretty!

Spring seems to be taking its time in coming this year; we even had snow this morning! I will hopefully be starting a garden this year, though I feel rather sorry for any plants I will attempt to grow. We'll see how it turns out.:)
Happy Spring everyone!
~Valerie

France!

Hello all! Quick update--We arrived in France July 3, and have been busy like crazy! There is no internet where we are staying, so i am relying on the occasional macdonalds or Suzanne's house. :) (Yes, I am alive Cristina!:p) Any way, I really must run and get ready for church. I will try to post later! (eep! those french keyboards keeps confusing me!)
Valerie

Liftoff!!!!!

Space shuttle Atlantis just received a go for launch on June 8, at 7:38 pm EDT. You can watch it launch live on NASA tv at www.nasa.gov , just click on the NASA tv link. NASA tv will follow the whole mission duration from launch to landing, and most everything in between! I am still awaiting the day when I will be the one inside the space shuttle, not just watching! I can see the headlines then: First Ballerina in Space to Perform a Weightless Variation of the Grand Pas from the Ballet Don Quixote. !!!:D

Book Tag

Tagged by Cristina! Sorry it is so late!

Just finished: Farenheit 451, the Westing Game, Anna Pavlova, several Sherlock Holmes, Leave it to Psmith, Leepike Ridge.

Just began: Northanger Abby

In the Middle of:Northanger Abby, The Bible, More of Holmes

I tag: Katie, Deborah Beauchamp:)

Hilarious Video

This is an old video I found on youtube of people messing up in ballet performances. My favorite is the girl who loses her tutu.:)

Wedding!

Oooof! What a day! We are still recovering from it! It was a spectacular wedding, and we have cheese and bread to last an eternity!(well, almost!:)) Here are just a few pictures... if you want the the whole scoop, you can see two pages of pictures at Daniel's blog: www.foucachon.com.

After-math!