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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Kelsey's Fall Concert


Kelsey's Honors chorus class gave a concert in conjuction with Lufkin Middle School on Monday the 16th of October. I was too far back to get many pictures (all you can see are glowing eyes and the kids look like zombies!) but I did get this one as she was walking up to the podium:


One of the songs that the intermediate chorus sang was "Turn Around"...a favorite of mine since I was about 9 years old. They used to use that song on a Kodak commercial that typcially ran during "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and I have always remembered it. It still brings a tear to my eye especially as I now have a "young girl going out of the door".

Turn Around
(Malvina Reynolds, Harry Belafonte & Allen Greene)

Where are you goin' my little one, little one?
Where are you goin' my baby my own?
Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

[First Chorus:]
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

Where are you goin' my little one, little one?
Little Dirndles and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turn around and you're tiny
Turn around and you're grown
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own

[Second Chorus:]
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own

(from oldielyrics.com)

A Month of Sundays

Well, not really--but October seems to be one of the best months around here as far as outdoor activities, so we end up doing something most weekends. On Friday, October 13 we went to the North Carolina State Fair. It's something that we have done each year that we have been here (both separately and together) and we always have a good time. I always have to eat whatever new fried thing they have this year (this year it was Fried Coke) and David always has to see the big pumpkin.











This year they had an "Ark" where they had Mamas and baby animals. They had two little donkeys in with their mothers that were just adorable...all fuzzy and frisky. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a picture.

On Sunday, October 15th we took Cameron and Christopher (Kelsey was going to go, too...but she was too tired from a band competition) to the North Carolina Rennaissance Fair that is held every year in Charlotte. We saw our favorites...Zilch the Storyteller (who speaks in Spoonerisms http://www.torysteller.com/), London Broil (some of the best jugglers around and one is named "Duncan"! http://www.thelondonbroilshow.com/) and Blackenshears the Mysterious (Cam's favorite [sorry...don't find a website]). This years we took in one new show, The Tortuga Twins (actual a Trio http://www.tortugatwins.com/) which was a little "raunchy" but fun. They did a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. The big guy in the red is the Big Bad Wolf:


The weather was perfect...just cool enough and it wasn't too crowded. As we left we rain into the Green Man:


For a real cool song on The Green Man, check out http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Venus-1-XTC/dp/B00000I4JT/sr=1-7/qid=1161705070/ref=sr_1_7/002-8210218-4917632?ie=UTF8&s=music and click on "greenman".