We ventured into the land of Billy Graham today and kicked off our day with a free symphonic band concert at Wheaton College. We go to this children’s concert every year and always enjoy it. We even snuck into the second showing the year they had the planetary theme, though we weren’t exactly going rogue–they just had a lot of no shows and the enthusiastic usher enthusiastically ushered us to some excellent seats.
Anyway, some of this year’s highlights: swastikas, guns and shooting people, punching, explosions, music and scenes from the video game Halo, pots, pans, kitchen blender, garbage can lids, and also… The Chicken Dance!
Heck yes, I said Chicken Dance, and it was awesome. During the audience participation portion N, E and I rocked that chicken and made it cry for mercy. Scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark provided some of that other heartwarming visual candy. Read the rest of this entry »
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