Since Evie loved the Nutcracker and she's a big Fancy Nancy fan, going to the "Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet" ballet was the perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon! We went with our pal Blakes and her mom again and had a great time. The story itself was a bit cheesy but had a nice message about not being jealous of a friend's success. In fact, at intermission when I asked Evie if she liked the show, she said no because "Nancy is mean". But, after the 2nd half where Nancy makes up with her friend Bree, all was well again and it seemed like Evie understood the underlying message of the story. It was a small production in Bellevue where we had great seats and got to take pictures with some of the ballerinas after. I'm looking forward to doing more shows like this with the girls!
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
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