recuperating

chanda was actually sick all weekend. she woke to a low fever saturday morning which then went up to 101.5 saturday night. she had chills and a headache and then a rash afterwards. her ballet teacher has the same thing now and another girl had it earlier in the week, so it seems to be making it's way through the class. 

 she's been taking it easy. today we watched the royal ballet's alice in wonderland while i knitted on a sock and she sewed ribbons and elastic on new pointe shoes.

 they're "castle" shoes from freed that she had customized.

it was warm today! it went up to 50 degrees. and it rained.

a package from gay par-ee and a visit to the ballet

a package came from morgana today!

it was very exciting to open!

we discovered french nougat chocolates inside!

they were so good . . it was the best nougat i have ever had. it just melted in my mouth.

 in the evening we went to see the national ballet of canada . . 

 they performed christopher wheeldon's alice in wonderland . . 

it was magical!

though the royal ballet's stephen mcrae is still our favorite mad hatter!!! (go to 4:00) (oh! it doesn't let you jump ahead . . ! oh well, you would have to watch the full 5 minutes).