Highland Dancing

So we made it to the Highland Festival in Alma, MI, again this year. We were a little disappointed that after making a concerted effort to arrive on time for the massed bands at noon we found out that only half of the bands in attendance would be performing at that time. There were so many bands entered in the competition, they said, that the competition had to start early, and continue right through that performance. If we wanted to stick around until 5:30, then we were promised all of the bands would perform. Unfortunately, that wouldn't work for our schedule, so we missed out. There really is nothing like a football field full of pipers and drummers marching straight at you playing Scotland the Brave. Talk about a wall of sound! Hopefully next year we'll get to experience it again.

One really cute thing to come out of the trip was Faolan in her kilt, getting to see the Highland Dancers in competition for the first time. She'd seen them online, and we'd talked about them before, but this was the first year that she was old enough to appreciate what was going on. The competition was held in a gymnasium, so we got in and took our seats at the end of the basketball court. And then... well, this adorable moment happened:

Note: there is no sound; this was taken with our photo-camera, not our digital video recorder.

We're not sure what she'll go into yet, but we wouldn't be surprised if it had some performance element to it!