Tuesday

Christmas eve, finally here!

Last day of the calendars too, a nativity scene and a star so at least they've delivered in the end.

Mum was at home with us again as Dad had to go to work for half a day at least.

We had a nice bath.

We played Jolly Octopus (I won).

And then Dad came home, he'd won a prize at the work raffle again and had picked a big tub of celebrations rather than any booze or anything.  He made the right choice!

We had to test a few, straight away.

Sue came round in the afternoon, we hadn't seen her for ages so it was really nice to see her, she really makes us all laugh.

We had our traditional christmas eve drinks with the gang in the afternoon at the Craven Arms.

We did, but with all the wild weather thats been about lately the pub had no electric.  This meant candle light only, how very cosy and christmassy.

Didn't make any difference out in the playground though, was nice and bright out there. We had a great time with Kimi, Marny, Aby and Faye.

We stayed all afternoon and had a good old laugh with Alan and Hayley too.

Once the power came back on at the pub (to a loud cheer) we decided to head off into town.  

We had a booking at Pizza Express, but as we were a little bit early we ventured into Marks and Spencer....it was pretty much deserted.

Yeah it was, and all the Christmas stuff was reduced....bargain Christmas Colin the Caterpillars, what a result.

We carried on accross town to get our pizzas.

The moustache sticker sheets were great fun.

We munched our way through dough balls, salad, pizzas and our puddings with ease.

It was lovely, we really enjoyed ourselves.

We saw my old friend from nursery Ted on the way out and had a nice catch up chat.

We made our way home to carry out our final preparations for the big day.

So, the reindeer food had to be scattered outside.

The Santa sign had to be installed:

Santa and Rudolph's supplies had to be laid out:

For the record we went with two mince pies, a glass of milk and of course a carrot.

Then it was a quick check on the NORAD santa tracker website (which doesn't seem to be as good as it was after they changed it's format).

Then it was time to get ready for bed and get snuggled up on Mum and Dads bed for the pop up nativity story and It's Santa before turning in for the night.

Despite weeks of worry, I went to sleep okay in the end.

I had no trouble of course, I take it all in my stride.

Wednesday-Christmas Day

Wahey, it's finally here....christmas had arrived.  Apparently 5am is a little too early though, so back to bed I was sent, via downstairs of course, just to check what was under the tree.

I tried again at 7:15, this time joined by slug-a-bed Ellis, there was to be no going back to bed this time.

Indeed there wasn't, we installed ourselves on mum and dads bed with our bulging stockings and set about seeing what was inside!

They were brilliant, packed full of good stuff in small packages.

The perfect starter before the downstairs main course still to come.

The pile of presents was very impressive this year.

I set about reading the tags and dishing them out.  It's a big responsibility, especially as Mum and Dad don't get as many as us kids, it's hard to spread there's out.

I don't get bogged down with such considerations, i'd open all of mine (and anyone elses) in a flash if left to my own devices.

I was so thrilled with my personalised, fully custom Adidas bag:

I can't wait to take it to school.

I have at long last got myself a lovely dressing gown, that actually fits me:

And far more exciting than that, my flipping puppy:

Hex Bugs V2, they can climb as well!

Super snuggly Pillow Pet:

And my top present, proper four wheeled roller skates just like I wanted:

I can't wait until it's dried up enough outside to really have a go on them but in the meantime i'll have to make do with scooting across the kitchen instead.

These were of course only a fraction of what we got, there was so much lovely stuff.

Indeed there was.

I took my responsibility as present distributor in chief very seriously and had to dig really deep behind the tree to get the last of them out:

We'd worked up a bit of appetite so it was a good job Dad just so happened to have sorted us out with a proper cooked breakfast.

We had a while to sit and digest what we'd got and have a play with our new stuff.

Before it was time to go around to Auntie Christines.

Brilliant, more people to see, the best part of christmas for me.

Owen and Kirsty were there, Laura and Darcey were there, uncle Ian's Dad was there and so was Auntie Trish.

Brilliant.  I got to parade around with my cool bag.

We had more excellent presents to unwrap.

And then it was Christmas dinner time.  Sprouts! I love them but i'm not allowed them at home...ever!

And I sat next to Auntie Trish, the fruition of an arrangement we'd made way back in October or something.

Dinner was of course delicious.

But the crackers were pretty shoddy it has to be said.....

Once it was all done it was time for games to be played.

Laura's balloon popping game was just brilliant, even if the more nervous among us didn't want to play.

Then there was my Logo Billionaire game:

Which bought us up to five o'clock.....meaning five o'clock present time!

A Flack festive tradition that has expanded to include us fortunately.

We were on an early curfew this year, so we took Trish and headed for home.

We got to go through all of our other stuff with her and then sat down for a liitle bit of tea.

It had been a long old day thats for sure, we didn't really object to going to bed....

Thursday- Boxing Day

Auntie Trish had stayed over, brilliant!

When we got up she was already on the sofa.

We had breakfast, we played more games, we had more fun!

We swapped her for Anne, Alan and Hayley at lunchrime.

We all sat down for a big curry for lunch (not Turkey leftovers).

And then I resumed my Santa duties by dishing out yet more presents from under the tree, which had seemingly replenished themselves.

One of them was a game for Mum called Dobble, it was seriously good fun for all of us.

We watched Gangsta Granny in the evening, from the David Walliams book.

It was the only thing we'd actually bothered to sit down and watch together and we really enjoyed it.

We rounded the day out helping mum do some of her puzzle ball.

Friday

Well it was almost like Christmas was over, Mum had to go back to work sadly.

It was wet and windy, so when Dad suggested we give her a lift rather than make her walk we agreed instantly and got dressed in a flash.

We had a lazy morning and watched the 4 o'clock club Christams special.

We made our way into town to meet Mum for lunch.

Which I managed to hijack into a Skylanders figure reconnaissance mission.

We ended up in Costas for a cheese and ham toastie.....still loving those!

We saw Edward and Eva in there too, a good chance for us to exchange present stories.

Town was pretty busy it has to be said, we got away as soon as we could.

The relative calm of the park on fifth road was pretty good n comparison.

Yeah, we took my new rugby ball and had a good time doing some passing.

We also did some timed laps on the bikes.

My wheel writer was brilliant, well, i'm told it was anyway as I can't see it while i'm riding.  I got it up into the high 20's before Dad couldn't read it anymore.

We had another Dobble session in the evening, we're still loving it!

Saturday

Newbury Races today.

Indeed, and despite repeated warnings from mum and dad it was surprisingly warm and sunny.

It was Katies 40th birthday so there was a good turnout, of grown ups anyway.....all the kids seemed to have been left at home except us.

From a gambling point of view it was rubbish for me, no winners.

I did a lot better, had a couple of winners, but managed to lose a tenner somewhere.  Oh dear.

Sunday

Yet another lazy morning, we're getting really good at these.

In the afternoon we were forced out of the house.

We went for avwalk around Snelsmore with Kimi and Marny.

It was pretty icy in places:

There was also masses of mud and some pretty serious puddles to splash about in.

My Inkoo had been through the wash after it's initial christmas days adornments and was dry when I got home.  Time for another design I think:

Monday

Yet another wet and windy morning.

We made the best of it by watching Epic with Dad (mum was back at work).

It did clear up a bit in the afternoon though. Enough for us to venture out to the discovery centre with a bag full of bread for the ducks.

I felt a bit crowded by them really, there were hundreds, I don't know where they all came from in such a short space of time.

We enjoyed the playground, even if it was a bit on the slippery side and we fell over a few times each.

We called in at pets at home on the way back, the rabbits, guinea pigs anpd gerbils were so cute.

I loved the Degu's, they were going mad in their exercise wheel.

We then tried to find an open car wash, this proved an impossibility so the car has remained filthy....

Tuesday
We had our school panto trip to the Anvil in Basingstoke, so this meant a dead exciting coach trip! We got to eat our packed lunches at the theatre befrore we went in to see the show as well.
The show itself was dead exciting, Aladdin, with a burst of real fire every time the Ghini appeared, I was well impressed.

Wednesday
We had our school Christmas dinner, me and my mates sat with Miss Burger, a teaching assistant from one of the year six classes, she was great fun and really interesting.  We discussed at great lengths what would and would not be acceptable dining behaviour if we were guests of the queen!  I lapped all this up.
We had our School Christmas Disco, quite honestly it was a bit of a let down as none of the boys would dance with us girls.  Apparently this is quite normal?  Bit rubbish if you ask me, we need more lads like Ned in out year obviously.
After school we hassled Dad to help us make our food for the class parties the following day amd set up a sandwich production line:

 
Then it was the last Team Kennet session of the year, which can only mean one thing, sweet races!
And a dubious fancy dress theme, this year, Scottish Christmas:

I managed a decent haul in my bag by the end of the night, and overflowing with Christmas spirit I even let Ellis have one.

Thursday
Class party day, yay!
Indeed, our sandwiches went down very well.
We had a bit of a disco competition at ours, I won best dancer award and was proper chuffed.
We played Musical statues and I loved that at ours.
Then it was after school dance club, with our special Christmas themed dance which was very well recieved by the watching parents and siblings.

Friday
The last day of term at long last!
We had our end of term assembly, when I saw Mum was there I knew I was in line for one of our special awards.  I was so pleased to see her there as i'd felt a bit iffy and delicate first thing at home.  Anyway, my award was for Science, for generally being a clever clogs in the subject.  I had to go stage to collect my certificate and take a bow. After that the teachers sang the 12 days of Christmas, they managed to re-write a line about the amount of lost property and hrew a massive bundle of uncliamed jumpers and what have you into us kids all sat on the floor.

Other than that it was the usual slack morning and then early finish.

But this year, Mum came to pick us up, we were so excited about that, not that we don't like Dad or anything.....
So we got home and started up the 'build it yourself' bubble machine that I got on our steam train trip, it was brilliant:

Then we had a Wii session, we're really loving the Wii at the moment.
It's brilliant now Ellis is a bit older and can actually be bothered to play properly.
Once Dad was home and we'd finished our game we were off to Cornwall for the weekend.
Indeed we were, we both filled the couple of hours in the car by writing stories.
Yeah, thats right, even me!
We read them out when we stopped at Exeter services to stop for a bite to eat.
Yeah, i've discovered Costa's Cheese and Ham toasted sandwiches.....deeeeeelish!
We got to Cornwall quite early really, although it was dark and totally lashing it down with rain.
As the caravan park is closed for the winter we had to seek alternative accomodation at the Trevose Golf Club.  Mum and I were sent off through the foul weather to sort the keys out while Dad and Ellis sat snug in the car.
We were staying in one of the telly tubby houses, but we were initially sad that ours wasn't one of the grass roofed ones at the front.
This soon gave way once we were inside though, it was lovely.
So after a rampant room exploring and bed choosing session we were tucked up in bed.
We decided to go in together rather than have a room each.

Saturday
Well the rain had stopped and the sun was out, of course it was, this is Cornwall after all.
And once we'd sorted out our advent calendars which ahd made the trip down with us:

It was time for a proper game of hide and seek.
There were so many places to hide it was brilliant, there were utility rooms, cupboards, wardrobes and all sorts of nooks and crannies.
It was a whole family event, although Dad in particular had a bit of trouble using some of the hiding places that we were.
We then had a voluntary shower all of our own accord.
Ned even washed my hair for me!
We had a brief slump with the telly:

Before we were out for a walk.  We got to explore the place a bit outside now it was dry and light.
The views out over the golf course to the sea beyond were lovely.
And the houses were very interesting, I loved walking over the grassy roofed ones on the way out.

We made our way down the narrow trail thorugh the dunes to Constantine:

It was lovely down there, barely anyone about, not like summer thats for sure.
We loved walking along the sand, we found a witches finger (seaweed stump) and rather randomly a lemon (an actual whole lemon).
I found a rather snazzy pair of sunglasses that I decided made me look like a rock star:

 

And of course, we had to get our wellies full of water by going in too deep:

We made our way around to Treyarnon, which by comparison was a lot busier, but still very quiet.
The sea foam getting blown up was really cool, we almost convinced ourselves it was Christmas snow!

We headed back via the campsite, which was totally deserted. 
Yeah, it was really weird being so quiet and empty.
We made our way back for lunch  and then all settled down to watch our Arthur Christmas DVD.
Which we loved.
We then had a couple of games of sleeping queens before heading into Padstow to see the Christmas lights.
The biggest and possibly most impressive of which weren't actually switched on while we were there.
We didn't mind, we wandered about a bit and noticed that every pub in town was full of people dressed up as Santa's Elves.

We headed back and enjoyed a full on christmas dinner with all the trimmings, santa plates and seasonal candle holder and best of all, crackers:

The fortune telling fish was a big hit of course.

But even better than that was the mystery number calculator cards....mind blowing!  I loved them so much and made sure I kept them safe to take to school in the new year.

We rounded the day out watching the Strictly Come Dancing final.......

Sunday

Our last day, it had come too soon and none of us wanted to go home.

Nope, we had a leisurly breakfast and enjoyed laughing at the golfers struggling on the approach to the 18th green....some of them were not having a good time by the looks of it!

We packed up our things and made our way back to the club house to return our key.

We made sure we told the ladies on reception how nice the house had been and all what we had been doing and wished them a Merry Christmas.

We made our way to Anne's Cottage Surf Shop to see what we could get ourselves.

Yeah, I was forced into trying jeans on.....but I got into it in the end.

As we were leaving the chaninging rooms we saw two of the instructors from my Gymnastics club!

They were pretty surprised to see me it has to be said, we had a nice chat.

Lunchtime was calling so we finally all agreed on going to the Pickwick Inn, in keeping with the usual sequence of events it was of course raining and miserable when we got there.  It's always the same, even in the summer.

It was lovely in there, all decorated for Christmas with warm fires burning.  But where we usually sit in the family room had a great big christmas tree there!

We had a nice feed and then could have quite happily dozed off.

But we had to go.....

As we made our way back to the car a Christmas miracle took place, it was bright and sunny, we got to finally see the view out over the Camel Estuary and Padstow for once.

Indeed we did.

Monday

Mum was off with us, we had a lazy morning, just hanging about and playing Wii.

When Dad got home I decided to do a cart wheel into the Christmas tree....this didn't go down too well.  A quick blast with the hoover sorted it out through.

It was cinema time!  

We battled through the wind and rain to see Frozen.

We pulled up all the arm rests in the cinema and managed to all cuddle up together, how lovely.

The film was fantastic, I loved it, I hid my head in Dad during the scary bits and sobbed with Mum at the sad and happy bits.

And I forgot all about the packet of Minstrels until about ten minutes from the end of the film.

We walked up through town to get some McDonalds and happened to bump into Auntie Christine.

It was like proper Christmas once we'd seen her and dragged her along for a bit!

Mum and her diappeared pretty sharpish to their Christmas Quiz though, and we had to keep Dad company.

So here we are, the day before Christmas eve.

I'm in two minds about it all.  I am of course looking forward to the big day, but I also don't want it to get here in other ways.  I love the build up, the preparations, the anticipation, seeing all our family and friends so much that I don't want it to be over......

Tuesday

We did the first performance of our christmas play today, it went very well.

I spent most of the day making things to sell on our friday afternoon charity bazaar.  Mrs Tichband kept a very close eye on the quality of our efforts ensuring only the best stuff would go on sale.

It was badge week at gymnastics, I passed my level 5 with ease.

We had the last week of netball club and after a good game or two we had sweets, crisps and squash, perfect way to round things out.

I decided it was high time to get stuck into the Christmas books at bed time, I still really love the pop up nativity book.

Wednesday

Mum and Dad came to my school play today. I started off full of enthusiasm for the singing and the actions.  

Once i'd delivered my line though (in a beautiful, non hurried, loud, clear voice) I lost a little focus.  Still, they all loved it.  I had a bit of a wobble at the end though, as we made our way back to class I broke ranks to give Mum a cuddle, I didn't want her to go.....

I had to make a christmas decoration for our classroom at home.  With Mums help I produced a really cool looking santa bauble.  Then it was Team Kennet.  My old school friend Maxim was there and I was really pleased to see him and catch up now he's moved schools.  He didn't want to know though, I was quite upset about it....

Thursday

After school dance club was based on Strictly Come Dancing this week.  I partnered Louise and took on the mantle of Suzanna and Kevin. We loved it, we danced pretty well too even if I do say so myself. It really was great fun.  Once we were finished Ella and I noticed a poster had gone up with a list of competitive sports events for the new year.  There was tag rugby, ten pin bowling, dodgeball and goodness knows what else.  It just so happened Miss Langdon walked through (she looks after all the sports events at school) and we asked to be put down for everything!

Mum and Dad were going out so Auntie Trish was babysitting, excellent!

Just as they were leaving the Roundtable Santa came round the road.  

Playing carols, wishing everyone merry christmas and rewarding a bit of change in the collection bucket with some sweets!

Sounds like a great deal to us.

Auntie Christine came round too, we played Monopoly and Jenga.  

What a cool time.

Friday

It was finally the day of our christmas bazaar.  We decided as a school that we would donate all our profits to charity and that we wanted to do it on aid of the typhoon in the Phillipines.  Each class had it's own stall to sell what they had made.  Ours had chocolates, truffles and some tree decorations.  I was heavily involved in our pricing structure and took on the first sales stint. We got off to a good start and I made sure I put enough packets of chocolates and truffles aside to give one to Mum, Dad and Ellis.  Dad got there just after i'd finished my stint which was good timing.  I took him round, we had a drink and perused what was left on the stalls, which quite honestly wasn't much by now!  As the afternoon drew to a close there were only a few items left on our stall and we were desperate ro sell out completely and shut up shop.  Dad stepped in and after being offered a good deal he cleared all the remaining stock in one go.  We were thrilled, we'd sold all of our stuff!

Back to swimming this week, we got our results....I hadn't passed again.  I failed on two things I had previously passed on, so I know next term I can do the business.

Saturday

Swimming trip to the Oasis, we took Andy along too.

It was even weirder than usual in Swindon though, there was no one about.

Indeed, the pool was pretty much deserted, maybe everyone else was Christmas shopping or something?

Who cares, it was brilliant, no queues for the slides and the wave machine seemed to on every couplle of minutes.

We went home for lunch and a game of Monopoly.

In the evening we went out in the car 'Grizzy' spotting.

We found some really good ones too, but our favourite again was the one on Bury's Bank Road near the Greenham common gate and car park.

Then it was home for the Strictly semi finals.

No one was quite as good as Ned and Louise though.....

Sunday

We had a late breakfast, or an early lunch.

I think you'll find it's called brunch!

Whatever, it was lovely, sausages, bacon, black pudding, hash browns, beans, toast, mushrooms, eggs the lot!

After seeing that lot off we understandably had to have a very lazy slouching session.

Until it was time to go to the theatre that was.

Indeed, a new one for us too, the Watermill to see Pinocchio.

It was certainly a small theatre.

A really old building too, we loved exploring it before we went in and took our seats.

I was totally enthralled by the show, the actors were so close!

Yeah, it was pretty good it has to be said.

Especially the second half which was much funnier and smothered the crowd in bubbles!  I couldn't believe his norse was really growing everytime he told a lie, how on earth did that happen?

We tried to explain it to her, but it really was a lost cause....

Monday

Our christmas carol concert at the methodist church was cancelled due to impending weather armageddon.  Well, it was supposed to be heavy rain.  We had to do it in the hall at school instead.  The rain failed to materialise of course, so we were deprived of the best part of the whole carol concert, the walk into town and back!

We also heard that our bazaar last week raised over £700, thats pretty impressive I think?

We did our christmas dance after school, it was great fun.

And then once Ellis had gone to bed I watched a programmed called Battlefield Britain on BBC4, it was a real blood and guts account of the Romans taking on Boudicca.  Right up my alley!

Tuesday

I got up really early so I could get Dad involved in our advent calendar guessing.  Also this has the added bonus of me knowing what's in Ned's before he opens it!  Dad's rubbish at guessing to be honest.

After school netball is still going well.  We played 2 games and won both of them before bad light stopped play at half four, earlier than usual.

Andy came round to tinker with the heating system at home as it still wasn't quite right.

He stayed for tea as well which we loved of course, decent pudding!

Wednesday

It was a lovely sunny winters afternoon after school so we suggested an after school bike ride.

We headed out accross the fields behind the school, it was really rather pleasant.

It obviously helped us work up an appetite, we ate stacks for tea!

Which I needed to burn off at Team Kennet afterwards.

Did you know that the telly has channels that just play music videos? Why did no one tell me about that before?  We are loving it! 

We're particularly enjoying the total ridiculousness of that Jason Derulo song Trumpets at the moment.

It's inspired a lot of copycat dancing too.

Yeah, the music channels have overtaken CBBC this week thats for sure!

Dad came and ordered me back to bed at 1am, I was quite comfy on the sofa having got up and put the telly on to watch more music videos.  I really did think it was nearly getting up time.

Thursday

After school dance club was proper ace this week, we had two glow sticks each and danced to Ellie Gouldings Fire.  We loved it.

It was really good to be able to see them doing it, gave me an idea of how ours must have looked earlier in the week.

Friday

Friday again!

And it was my mufti day.  I'd gone to bed with tight platts so my hair was beautifully curly and I chose my best clobber to wear, I do love mufti day.

I had no swimming! We had to wait for the plumber to come round to see to our leaky upstairs toilet that had flooded the bathroom that morning.

We used the time wisely though and decided we should write our Christmas cards.

Mum was going out on her christmas do(she looked lovely when she left) so we managed to convince dad to play our board game Clear Round with us.

He was totally useless at it!  I wasn't though, I won by a mile.

Saturday

I had a trip to the hairdressers for a trim in the morning.

Dad and I went to the bike shop while they were in there.

We had a few bits to see to in town before we went back to Sainsburys to do a christmas shop for the food bank collection.

We love doing a food bank shop even if we don't sometimes have the best grasp of non perishable foods.

We saw Darcey in there too, obviously that was brilliant.

Once we were done in Sainsburys it was the main event of the day, The choosing of this years christmas tree.

We had our customary dance with Santa of course:

The choice was a little disappointing at the top end of the sizes it has to be said, there were no real cieling scrapers, unless you went for one fit for a shopping centre or something.

Mum was pleased that we didn't spend too long deliberating, we found a good one early on which I kept hold of while the boys insisted on trying to find a better one.....they soon gave in.

We had to help Dad carry it so it was obviously pretty sizeable:

We shoved it up the middle of the car and bought it home even though we have perfectly good roof bars to use for such eventualities.

There was more fun to be had though, it was my infant school fete in the afternoon.

And I was just excited about it as Ellis was, even though i'm a junior now.  What better way is there to get loads of sweets so easily?

The face painting was a hit as usual:

The best game had to be the one being run by Neaves mum, you got 5 ping pong balls for 20p and had to bounce them off the table to land in a glass jar.  Whatever was in the jar any of the balls landed in was your prize!    I managed to amass a right haul!
We got to buy our reindeer food, and didn't win anything on the raffle so that was pretty much business as normal.
And then there was the visit to see Santa.  I was the biggest in the queue by a bit of a margin.  I don't care, I still  love all this stuff.  
He remembered where we lived and everything, we obviously asked for a whole load of stuff we'd not ever mentioned before.

Sunday

Our first job was to get the tree organised:

It was pretty much plain sailing this year, we're like a well oiled christmas machine.
Aside from a small squabble about who was cutting the net off it all went very well.
We left it to settle while we ate lunch and then set about decorating it in earnest.
The decorations box came down and well and truly ransacked.
It was all going so well until we discovered the fairy lights didn't really work.
No spare bulbs could be located either, so it was a quick trip to Homebase for a new set.
Excellent, that meant we could get a set of much more impressive LED ones, more lights, more 'disco' settings.
Once Dad had finally finished putting them on the rest of us could really get busy.
It obviously looked brilliant once we'd finished.

More Christmas excitement needed?  Of course!
We took a trip to the Newbury Christmas market and met up with Abi and Faye.
We were super excited, having already been with the Aunties.
The big wheel was first on the agenda:

It was realy cool with Abi and Faye being in the next car for us to wave at and generally have fun with as we went round (at extremely high speed it must be said).

It was also very nearly dark so everything had started to glow and twinkle down below:

The helter skelter was pretty good again of course.

There were some seasonal donkeys:

There was a board game stand we had a play on, the grown ups loved hanging about for us:

As the whole thing was vaguely german theme we had a bratwurst for tea, well half of one anyway, they were pretty big.
And so was the barbecue they were cooking them over!
We bumped into Ella and her family which was cool.
And then we had some hot doughnuts before heading off home.
I had candy floss instead, shame I managed to get my hair all sticky wearing the empty bag as a hat!

Monday

We did Strictly come dancing at dance club after school.  I partnered up with William, we had a great time, he was a brilliant dance partner and really went for it.  The grown ups watching were in stitches.
We were obviously feeling very theatrical, so while Mum and Dad were doing rubbish grown ups stuff in the kitchen we put a show together for them.
Indeed we did, I did some ballet.
And I performed a glow stick dance routine in the dark.
It was rather spectacular even though we do say so ourselves!