Our Easter Dance

Here's the dance Vivi and I did for Easter. If you think it is good then we can only give credit to God, because for so many reasons it was so close to failing completely. It is a miracle people at church were moved by it. If you think it did fail, well then here's why:

1. I completely changed WHO was doing the dance three times within three weeks prior to performing.
2. I completely changed HOW the dance was going to be done two weeks before the date, adding the flags.
3. After a week of searching and not finding what I needed for flags, I went and made my own. I went through half the alphabet of "Plans" before finally and frantically rigging up window valences with rubber bands and dowel rods.
4. The week leading up to the show we had two B&B guests (friends of my mom and dad), and two different groups of friends/family visiting staying in the main house.
5. Vivi was sick two days before.
   
6. And lastly, I've never danced with flags before and had no access to a dance studio to see what I was doing, so I could only go by David, Bo and Vivi's input as to whether anything looked good or not.

Given all that, I personally am very happy with the end result. But I absolutely admit to being a nervous wreck over it.



Translation of the words:

On the way to Calvary
To the Mount of Golgotha,
The soldiers are trying to blaze a trail
But the crowd gathers
To see who dies on the cross.

He must suffer the insults,
Blood flows from his back
A crown of thorns on his brow,
He faces at each step,
The hatred of those who want his death.

On the way to Suffering
Leading to Golgotha,
Like a lamb, Jesus is the Messiah.

Because he chose to walk
By Love for you, for me,
On this path of suffering
Until the end, until the cross.

His precious blood that cleanses us
Flowing on the ground of Jerusalem!

On this path of Suffering
Leading to Golgotha,
Like a lamb, Jesus is the Messiah.

Because he chose to walk
By Love for you, for me,
On this path of suffering
Until the end, until the cross.

Joyeux Paques!

Well, despite Vivi, Bo and I being sick off and on this past week with some evil stomach thing, we managed to thoroughly enjoy both having company and celebrating our resurrected Lord. Specifically for Easter we managed to dance at our Good Friday Service at church (video to be posted soon), enjoy local Easter gifts (see video below), dye eggs, and go to an Easter egg hunt at the tallest chateau in France, Chateau Brissac. Minus the vomiting episodes, it was some pretty good memory-making, I'd say!



Some shots from the Easter Egg Hunt:

This is Chateau Brissac. The hunt was in the forest on the castle grounds.

Here are Bo & Vivi hunting for eggs in the woods with all the other families. There were boatloads of people there. At first we thought we wouldn't find very many eggs - it was slow going. But then we discovered there were people disguised as hunters who were actually "replenishers" going around very stealthfully dropping new batches of eggs to be found! It got a lot easier after that!

We walked away with over 85 eggs. The official final count is under review because of unauthorized "taste-testing."

And finally, our annual egg-coloring tradition. We used a tarp on the floor because I was nervous we would stain the tiles. This year I learned I like coloring brown eggs better - they come out a gorgeous muted, earthy tone.