Monday, August 11, 2008

Tuesday & Wednesday -- International Folk Dance Festival

So Tuesday was a pretty uneventful day for us. They had to go to Blackfoot for a performance. They left early afternoon and did not return until late Tuesday night.

Wednesday, they loaded the buses and spent a good portion of the day in Bear World. We picked them up late that afternoon. That night, we went to a "team party". This is where every family that was hosting dancers, chaperones, musicians, and even bus drivers went to a party. This party was at the home of one of the host families. We had a great time. It was a typical Mexican party, scheduled to start at 7:00 but we didn't even eat until almost 8:00 p.m. Every family was asked to contribute $5 for fried chicken from Albertsons. Then every family also brought a side dish. I took a vegetable salad but alot of the host families had the dancers cook for them. So the meal was a good mix of American and Mexican dishes. There was a huge pit where you could play sand volleyball. Mexico was one of the few dance teams that brought their own band. The band came and played music for a dance after dinner. We had a great time socializing and dancing! Here are some pictures of our evening.

2 comments:

Linda Gibbs said...

CUTE picture of the little ones!! Logan and Natalie really can be sweet together! Didn't get a picture of Sam dancing?

Jennifer said...

Sorry. Would love to have posted a picture of that. However, those pictures don't exisist. You see that kid wouldn't dance. There were so many cute Spanish girls that asked him but he was too busy playing volleyball!