The Big Day! July 24, 2005

July 24, 2005 was the big day!

It was wonderful!

We woke up early and Mommy put gel in Annabelle's and Rebekah's hair.

We arrived at the Sertich Ice Center at 9:30 AM. Mommy and Daddy left us there!

We spent the morning getting our make-up on and getting ready.

The first show started at 12:30 PM and was over at about 1:30 PM. Grandma and Grandpa came to see us.

Joel and Rebekah stayed at the rink the whole day, but Annabelle went home with Mommy and Daddy and took a bath and removed her make-up.

Joel and Rebekah got to eat a lot of food and watch THE ARISTOCATS.

Daddy brought Annabelle back to the rink at about 3:30 PM.

We got our make-up applied again and got ready again and put on another performance at 7:00 PM.

Everyone was more relaxed during the 2nd performance. Annabelle did a lot more moves in the GUS number, including waltz jumps and sit spins! Rebekah even did a flying camel. She also did many, many spins. Joel did a great flip jump and lots of great spins. It was fun to see our friends do spins, jumps, turns, and have fun skating as we performed.

Everyone was happy!

After the show was over, we went in the audience in our costume and said hello to all the wonderful people who came to watch us.

We hugged DeeDee good-bye. Wow did she do so much for us!

It didn't take long to change clothes and go home. We hugged many of our CATS friends good-bye. We will really miss them, but are glad there is going to be a chance to see eachother again when we do the show on stage in September.

We kept our make-up on until we got home. When we got home, we sang CATS songs and talked about how fun a day we had!

We will never forget this wonderful experience. Joel now wants to perform more and more and has improved so much at his skating. Annabelle and Rebekah both have improved at skating and acting too. We've made some wonderful friends.

We want to thank DeeDee for giving us an experience that we will remember for the rest of our lives.