Niagara Falls

Well, another busy weekend. Last week Shyla and Ryley had their open house at their school. Shyla performed her folk dancing and primary choir for us, while Ryley was the narrator of a french play entitled "the three little pigs". All went well. On Friday, Ryley had his first ever experience at track and field at the civic with his school. He absolutely loved it and it was a beautiful day to boot. He competed in Long Jump (4th place), shot put (first place), javelin (second place), 100m run (second place) and 200 metre run (2nd place). For his first and seconds he will go on to tryout for the school track team in which he will compete in the area finals in a couple of weeks. On Friday evening, we left for Niagara Falls for another dance competition. Unfortunately, we had to leave Ryely at home with his grandparents. He had basball Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and hockey tryouts for the 'A' division on Saturday and Sunday. We decided to take the 407 to get there quicker and had no problems but a few slow downs. We arrived about 7 and shyla immediately wanted to swim. We met up with a few of the other families and had a ball. The next morning we had a great buffet breakfast included in the price of the room. Shyla danced at 2:30, her 'talk to the animals'. They did great. She said that she had the most fun ever dancing on stage. They received a ruby award (high silver). We had a picnic lunch with some other families and enjoyed the weather. After adjudication we all went back to the hotel and ordered pizza and the girls all swam. We then had some drinks and shared some great stories when the girls all went to sleep. The next morning we checked out and went to the theatre for shyla's 'lollypop" for 10:30. They did well and received a 'emerald award' (gold) and a special award entitled "the little peanuts award". We then had a picnic again outside and Janice joined us (The dance school's owner and teacher). The girls all enjoyed showing off new moves they learned off of the older girls. We then decided to go across the border and shop at the outlets. We got some good deals. We then went for dinner at "old country buffet" and then went to the grocery store to get the things we cannot buy in canada. We got home around 9 from a tiring weekend. Ryley made it through both tryouts on the weekend as well as last night. He just has Wednesday left to find out if he made the team.