Mikala coped with her distress at not being in the parade this year by attempting to embrace spectatordom as fully as possible. And while this year's event definitely lacked giant papier mache vegetables, cardboard cutout lightbulbs, or Japanese bridges on wheels, she had to admit it ROCKED. After the fearless All City Band started things off, lion dancers, belly dancers, and step dancers joined a series of fabulous drumming crews to shake Columbia City up. Unfortunately just a few of the many marvels made it into the video camera. Nice work, folks!
Shan & Emmett visited this weekend and joined us for the third (and possibly final) Goodbye Party for Lexi & Jenny, who really, really, really are moving to Oakland. (Damn.) The grandparents were fresh from Music Camp, all fired up with guitars and songbooks and harmonies. Josie and Simon ate it up. We spent much of the weekend teaching them some of the songs Mom used to sing to us at bedtime -- soothing lullabies about drowned cabin-boys ("The Golden Vanity"), prostitutes ("Pretty Peggy-O"), bitter breakups ("Just Like a Woman"), and horrific mining disasters ("The Ballad of Springhill"). The kids have been working on a tragic song of their own, titled "Back to School Again." Yikes -- only two-and-a-half weeks to go!
Josie and Mikala wrapped up this musical weekend at a lovely wedding (Congratulations, Laura & Shawn!), where Josie agreed -- for the first (and possibly last) time -- to dance with her mother in public. The Virginia Reel was never so fine.
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