The Traveling Show

Last week, all the 5th graders at the elementary school participated in a nontraveling "Traveling Show". (Apparently it used to travel.) I didn't know anything about the show until last month during Parent Teacher Conferences when Landon's teacher said he was doing well with the dancing (what the?). He tends not to mention things like this until it's almost time for them, and then talks about them like I should know already. (Note to self...practice mind reading.)


I mentioned in my Five for Friday post last week that we got there 15 minutes early and barely managed to get a seat in the very back of the cafeteria. ($%#@) I guess the good thing about being in the back is that we could stand up to see if necessary. Good grief.


Landon had told me his part was near the end of the show, so we weren't even looking for him on stage but then Randy said, "Isn't that Landon right there?" Um yeah. Good thing Randy noticed or we may have missed this Paul Revere song and dance. (I used my super zoom lens to get this photo.)


During the rest of the show, we could only see Landon singing if the choir was standing, otherwise we were lucky to see the top of someone's head. He had a somber expression most of the time, so we would try to make him smile, this was one of those times.


Landon was in the group representing The Marines (apparently they wear church clothes) toward the end of the show.


All branches of the military were represented, and they had veterans in the audience stand up. My mom, Lori and I all got teary during this part.


Someone gathered the kids from Landon's class for a photo after the performance, so I got in on that. Landon appeared much happier at this point of the night.


I loved it that Lori and my parents swarmed Landon when he finally came over to talk to them (I think he was feeling shy, so he was goofing around with his friends rather than coming over).


Even though we had to sit in the very back we still had a good night. The show was entertaining and quite moving in several areas. I love it that he got to be a part of something like that.

**Have you ever seen a nontraveling, traveling show?
Were you a shy performer as a kid (I was)?
Do patriotic things make you teary?**