Gerpla’s Spring Gymnastics Exhibition
[The show was on 05 June 2015, but this is being blogged on 08 June 2015. Close enough.]
The academic year is over now, and one of the final events was the gymnastics spring exhibition. The local club is called Gerpla, and every year they host a series of spring shows. I’m pretty sure the big kids participate in all the shows (five this year) but the little kids only perform in one show, thank goodness.
The show this year was fun, they’d woven the performances to a narrative of the old Norse mythology. I did overhear somebody saying that they’d had to make a decision as to whether they should have good lighting or fancy costumes, and the lights won out. It was probably a good call, as it made for a cool show.
First though, we had to ‘assign’ Emma to somebody else, because I had no desire to try and wrangle her for a solid two hours. Finnur’s parents very kindly offered to take her to their summer house in Laugarvatn, which was great because the next night I had tickets for myself and the big kids to see Billy Elliot the Musical. (Finnur’s still in California.) (10 images and 1 video total)
Emma in the car with her grandparents and one of her cousins, who was also having a summer-house sleepover.
Bjarki getting some face paint. His group was supposed to represent Fenrir, the wolf.
As wolfish as hastily applied black paint is capable of.
Anna and I waiting for the doors to the auditorium to open.
We had pretty good seats, right in front of the main performance area. The bridge in the distance is Bifröst.
Awww…
Bigger kids. The boys didn’t do a lot of dancing, more running jumps and flips here and there and everywhere, which were impossible to photograph.
Cool flipping sequence.
Video of Bjarki’s group.
After the show, we ate dinner at TGIF, and then I fulfilled my promise to take them out for ice cream. We just made it into the store before the line became crazy long!
Crazy long line, and everybody getting something really complicated and time consuming to make!!