NEW YORK

So this year I got the brilliant idea that I wanted to take our Elite Company at the dance studio to New York. It....was....awesome. We fundraised like crazy and in April, 19 of us packed up and headed to NYC!

The girls/Amy and I at the airport (at 5am...)

Time Square

Amy's brother is an actor in NY, we went and saw him in "Forbidden Broadway"

We took the girls to St. Paul's house. There, we lead a worship service and fed breakfast to the homeless. This is us dishing up the plates. 

We all went and took various classes at Broadway Dance Center. I was fortunate enough to get to take a tap class from one of the "Tap Dogs". He was great!

Amy's brother is also a player in an improv comedy show. He was able to get us all in to see one of the shows. The girls felt so special, and since the players play in teams voted on by the audience...it should be pretty obvious who won this night. 

And last, we took the girls to see a Broadway show. We went and saw Newsies and the dancing was AMAZING. Loved it. 

The whole reason we went to NY was actually to allow the girls to participate in "Project Dance" which is an uplifting dance convention that gave the girls the opportunity to dance in Times Square. I don't have any pictures from that because I was actually taking mostly video during that time. But it was a very cool experience for the girls. 

Next year we are going to attempt to take the entire company to Disney World for their Youth Dance Package. Very excited about it and already getting started on the planning!