Michael Flatley, eat your heart out! Ellery had her first Irish Dance competition today. It was fun to see all the girls in their glitzy solo dresses doing their reels and jigs. Ellery is a beginner and has to earn her dress. I love looking at her little Ghillies (soft shoes). Her skirt had a row of blue embroidered triquetra knots. Lots of the girls wear pre-fab ringlet wigs to Feiseanna, but we just did the curler thing. I guess the idea is that after Sunday mass in Ireland when the girls were in their Sunday best with curled hair, they would have a Feis (dance party). We went au natural like any good Mormon girl pretending to be Catholic for a day would. There was even a showmom airbrushing a tan on her daughter's legs (yucchy!). The dancer list went something like this: Margaret Blackerby, Tara Bridgeman, Mary Crone, Ceara Daly, Liam Dhooghe, Kelly Donovan, Shannon Murray (You get the picture). Ellery did great winning several medals. Mostly we just had fun doing it and watching the dancers do their thing. Maybe next Feis, there will be pics of Mom too? (Hop 2 3 4 5 6 7)
Afterward we went on a Mom/daughter date to McDonald's and to buy her parakeets Ellery has been saving for. She chose an all yellow one and named him (?) Lemondrop. The white one with a bit of yellow on his (?) crest, blue belly, and black stripes on wings and cheeks is Kimono. I hope they last!
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