Week 3, Day 2 - Shaboom, Shaboom!

Good day parental units. Your children are now sleeping peacefully, but we have an emergency! Tigger (Counselor Claudia's stuffed animal) and Eeyore (Counselor Yolanda stuffed animal) were both stolen earlier today! Don't worry though, we have our highly qualified CSI team on the case, so we should know the culprit soon enough. Hopefully we can reach an agreement on some type of ransom and return them home safely. But enough about them, let's get down to the good stuff.

We started the day with a nice breakfast. The kids then took part in some Creative Expression and Arts Workshops, and if you want to see what they were up to before they come home make sure that you show up to the Parent Presentation on Tuesday at 6:45! (More information on the Parent Presentation will be posted Tuesday morning) After lunch we got on the bus, sang a lot of bus songs, and headed down to the Laguna Playhouse where we saw Life Could Be A Dream, a 1960 based musical that the kids loved! 

Oh, life could be a dream (Shaboom, shaboom)

If I could take you up in paradise up above (Shaboom, shaboom)

If you would tell me I'm the only one you love

Life could be a dream, sweetheart! 

Errr, sorry about that. A lot of the songs are so catchy that sometimes I just start to sing them; this happens quite often. After the show, we had our very own special talkback with the cast where the kids were able to ask them questions about the show and their lives as actors.

After dinner we were then able to take part in a Spotlight Vocal Workshop! Spotlight Workshops are workshops that everyone takes part in for about an hour and a half so that people who didn't get placed in a certain art still have a chance to experience as many arts as they can while they are here are arts-X-press. I hope that wasn't too confusing; if it was, I apologize, I am tired. Anyways, our good friend Jeanette McMahon came in and taught us all about the voice and how to sing and conduct professionally! We then learned about the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra and closed the night with a little activity we call Bonding. We gave out a lot of Magic Buttons tonight; if your kid comes home with one please make sure to ask them to describe their magic moment.

I am now off to bed because we have a busy day tomorrow. We are heading down to Laguna again to see Pageant of the Masters! We have all sorts of activities planned throughout the day, but to find out what we are you going to have to check back in tomorrow night!

AXP Coordinator

Garret

PS. Pictures are on their way later today. I didn't have time to upload them tonight.