Halloween at Discovery

After being in class all day, I somehow still had energy to take the girls to the discovery museum!

They are flamenco dancers this year. We were watching dance videos on youtube one day about a month ago, and came across a five year old is Spain who was dancing in front of a crowd of thousands. Cassidy immediately requested to be a dancer for Halloween. Which I fully support!

The costume hunt was on.

We picked up a 3xl shirt at Savers and turned that into her skirt, some flowers from Michaels, and some hair clips from JoAnnes. Some hot glue and hand me down tap shoes resulted in a flamenco dancer. Then we watched guitar lessons and I think I may have actually picked up a few chords to strum!! Can't really tell if I am doing it right, but it sounds right. So the girls dance and I play and fun is had by all!

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