Talula's dancing and Sting

click here to see Talula at dance class...Talula joined dance class in the second term once she was finally old enough for the 2-3 year olds' ballet class.  Noy takes her every Wednesday while we are at work. I don't know who enjoys it more: Talula loves the dancing and costume; Noy loves having something special to do with her as their relationship is in its last few months.  Noy would always give us updates- Talula is one of the fuller-bodied young ladies there, that all the other mothers appreciated her independence, and that Talula could really just shake her bootie.  So I decided to take some time off and go see it myself.  She was a bit reluctant to join in the class in the beginning since I was there, but she eventually did and would turn around and give me wry little expressions to see if I was paying attention.  Anastasia and Talula both have the same instructor, Miss Allison, a surfer from California.

The following day, Pi Day, I attended the Sting concert at Du Arena on Yas Island with my Pakistani colleague and her husband.  Sting put on a solid, traditional performance with about 75% blasts from the past and 25% newer or jam session.  Roxanne, Fields of Gold, SOS, Shape of my Heart, Englishman in New York, and several others were played.  Desert Rose was the first encore and featured some pretty intense belly-dancing.

Not much else is going on...just trying to survive "Death March" (as Randy calls this long stretch between Christmas and spring break).  But in just two more weeks, we're headed west to Morocco.  The girls have been asking about the next airplane ride for a while and I think we'll all be ready to hop on and go somewhere else for a bit.