Road Trip!

 This weekend, I drove with Smallest up to Memphis so that she could audition for the ballet program at the University of Utah.  We left after a school program on Saturday morning and arrived in Memphis around 10:30ish?  It was an uneventful drive up, which is always good.  The perk was that it was Daylight Saving Ends weekend, so clocks went back, the audition was at 2:00, and we could sleep in!  

Much sleep was had, then we had a tasty breakfast at Bryant's Breakfast, which was very tasty.  I had a bacon biscuit with egg and cheese, and Smallest had the Nutella Supreme pancakes.  We were pleased with our decision.  Here are the pancakes:

After breakfast, it was back to the hotel to relax a bit and then get ready for the audition.  We left around 1:15 for a quick drive to the studio, where registration was to begin at 1:30.  The studio was a brand new place and is really stunning.  There were about 20 other girls there and one boy.  They all got to go in and warm up after checking in, and overall things went pretty well.

At the end of the program, we were the last to leave because Smallest was waiting to change clothes.  The professor who lead the audition complimented her, and we discovered he knew several of her ballet teachers in Houston, which was cool.  Smallest said the teacher had a lot of Russian-training tendencies in his dancing, so she was very happy to have had the experience with the Bolshoi program this past summer.  At least something good came out of all that!

We left around 5:00 to drive back to Houston.  We got dinner at a sketchy Subway at a gas station, which was amusing, and had a smooth trip back home.  Smallest slept the last couple of hours, so hopefully she won't be tooo tired today.  We arrived around 1:30 in the morning.  We enjoyed some really beautiful sunsets, and laughed a lot about how Smallest has picked up a lot of my habits, for which I apologized profusely.

That's about it.  I'm thinking about a short nap here before lunch.  Maybe... I do have a library book to pick up.  I could walk and get it on the way home...

That's what I know.  Now we wait to hear from Utah about scholarships and admission, and wait to hear from the other schools about auditions.  Lots of waiting.

Margie