singing & dancing

Another good weekend began with Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) on the kitchen computer with Cyndi and the boys and me dancing. Bacon was in a fry pan, the griddle was heating up, and I continued to make pancake batter. Cyndi continued to practice her dance steps for a "flash mob", and the boys ran around the house, playing with their legos. Ry and I set up the little outdoor train on the lawn while Jackson and Cyndi did some quick shopping.

Then it was time for the flash mob in the afternoon. The boys and I dropped Cyndi off at the Little Theater parking lot for their final practice. We left Cyndi there, with Dorie and Elley and about 50 other dancers. Maybe a little more than that. The boys and I drove to Old Town and hung around the plaza. There was a wedding party taking pictures near the gazebo in the plaza, where a tuba band was setting up for a Christmas concert. There were many tourists and shoppers on that overcast day. We talked to some Knights of Columbus volunteers building a manger in front of the church for a live nativity on Christmas Eve. We plan to come back then, to walk around the plaza and then among the homes in the old Albuquerque Country Club neighborhood to see all the luminarias at night.

We sauntered over to the small shopping plaza west across from the church, where there's a tall Christmas tree constructed from over 100 real trees. Pan pipes were playing. The flash mob began to walk over and mix among the shoppers, eventually outnumbering them. The filmmaker Cyndi met a week or two ago was there to document the street performance. After some time, All I Want for Christmas Is You came on. A singer descended the stairs, two or three couples began to twirl and then dancers broke out onto the plaza. Cyndi and her sisters were among them. The boys and I watched from the balcony, and in the second verse dancers on the balcony joined in. When the music finished, the flash mob went on their way, but a few lingered on, excited by the event.

Cyndi was quite excited. She had been practicing for days. The choreography was complicated. The company of dancers included local professionals, young and old. I think many were from the annual Nutcracker company. Afterwards we went to Church Street Cafe in Old Town.

Sunday we went to Belen to set up a tree. Ariel was scheduled to fly to Washington that day.

Next: Singing & Dancing: The Movie. (I've had a "flash mob" video posted for some time on this blog. Look for the Do-Re-Me link in some stuff under Bottom of the Scroll.)