Folklife Sunday!

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The girls and friends.
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Omaha does Folklife every year, and this year was no exception. In past years, she would go all four days, she would volunteer. The year Kouryou-chan was born, she volunteered three days, leaving me with this seven-month-old creature and bottles of mechanically extracted breast milk. This year we did one day, Sunday.

The weather wasn't as beautiful as Saturday; instead, it was overcast and a bit chilly most of the day. But it didn't rain, so we wandered out to listen to buskers and some of the stage bands before finally wandering out to listen to Wandering Hands (who don't have a website I can find, darnit), who did a fine job although the bells and traps percussionist in the back needed to get closer to her mike or have it turned up; we couldn't hear her out in the audience. But there was lots of family and friends there, and the girls all sat together with their friends and danced to the music. Excellent!

 

Pictures from Wandering Hands performance.
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We ate greasy food (I had Warthog Barbecue, which was some of the best pulled pork I've eaten combined with some of the most mundane and boring barbecue sauce I've ever encountered) and ran into tygereclipse, who was looking pale but healthy. Omaha and Kouryou-chan wandered over to do dancing, but Yamaarashi-chan and I went window shopping along "Unique Alley". Later, we met up with fallenpegasus and all went to the cooking demonstration, where the girls learned how to make mozarella and marshmallows. They really want to make marshmallows at home. I think I can accomodate them, I'll just have to replace my candy thermometer; the old one broke.

Yamaarashi-chan and Omaha dance.
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We then wandered over to the Brazilian Drum Team, which completely rocked, and the girls had a blast dancing to the beat. I did one whole song with Kouryou-chan on my shoulders shouting "Woah! Wow!" and giggling insanely and I don't think I could have pulled that off without the strength training exercises I've been doing.

I took the girls home while Omaha and FallenPegasus stayed to dance the night away. I put the girls to bed; they were good about it, although Yamaarashi-chan complained that her eyes were too tired to do the string eye therapy exercises properly, but we still did them. They promptly fell asleep; it had been a busy day. I stayed up awhile and watched some TV, then went to bed myself.

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[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

Elynn and I met through volunteering at Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival. I used to go back every year; although I haven't volunteered since getting the faculty position in '03, I jones for the experience this time every year...