Day 16 – Irish Dance in NZ

Today we slept a little more in the morning and I worked on updating the blog while Tegan played with a couple of kids here at the holiday park.  We tried to setup some play dates with friends but it didn’t pan out for us.  We actually went for a little drive around Napier prior to the start of the Irish dance class Tegan was invited to at 4:30pm.  We grabbed some ice cream and then we drove up to a lookout and had a great view of the port and the surrounding bay.  It is a beautiful area they have here. 

We located the class and Tegan was invited in with open arms.  She got to dance with 2 other girls at the end of the first class and then dance with a girl and 2 boys for the second class.  After a summer off and an extended vacation here, she is really rusty.  We will have to work on all of her dances prior to her competition in November.  

Tegan had brought a stuffed bear that has a Canada shirt on it plus some maple sugar candies for the kids and a bottle of maple syrup for Helen the instructor.  We thank Helen and her students for the opportunity to participate in her class.  It really meant so much to Tegan for her to do this.

After dance class we went back to the holiday park for dinner and then bed.  Big day tomorrow!