breakfast and poster making and fios cable work

 gluten free pancakes and breakfast sausage from the local butcher.

 it's the morning of the show, so it must be poster making time (i'm rolling my eyes . . i'm not a fan of making posters on the last minute) . .

 . . after which chanda ran off to the theatre . . 

 and my sister arrived with my brother-in-law. greg and i took them past the verizon crew who were working to reinstate wifi to chelsea and the west village.

 a construction crew had been welding two large plates together to cover a repair hole in the road, when sparks flew down a manhole and ignited the fios cables. don't ask exactly how that happened, because i think one would need to see it to believe it. wifi was out for five days.

 (just some random crowd photos thrown in here . . )

 greg is explaining how the cables need to be replaced from fifteenth street to seventeenth street . . what's funny is that every time he went to check on the work, he met our engineering neighbor who was also checking on the work. 

we walked from here to the theatre on 19th street, between 8th and 7th avenues.

at the whitney and poster making

blizzard, (roxbury flurry), 1946, alexander calder

there's a special alexander calder exhibit that just opened thursday at the whitney. we all love his work so chanda was especially excited to visit today. i actually feel a little twinge of guilt with this movie i made. i usually don't film the room like many people do with their phones or cameras, but something came over me today and i did . . and if you watch to the end, i think i disturbed a woman who was lost in a dream looking at this particular piece. calder can put one into a dream world.

half circle, quarter circle and sphere (1932) . .

back at home, chanda needed to work on her own artistic piece . . 

the poster for her dance . .

sunday dance recital, and losing xena

 the flowers are accumulating.

 the week has been so busy that chanda only had a chance to work on her poster this morning, before rushing off to her 10 am call for her concert!

 with ellen, after the show.

 with tessa, isabella and francesca.

 we keep adding . . bianca jumped in on the last minute.

 chanda's show was at noon. we went with francesca and isabella, elsa, marisa and tsering to le pain quotidian for a tartine before the four o'clock show (which we were all staying for). morgana went up to manhattan youth ballet to her final ballet performance, and gala event.

 isabella is working on a scarf.

isabella and her germ bracelets!

after the four o'clock show, chanda went with marisa and deychen to tea and sympathy, while greg and i helped ellen load out and take her boxes to studio maestro, along with krista and yueng hip (emma lee's dad). we finished around 8 pm and met chanda on her way home. greg went to park the car, while chanda and i talked with our neighbor who had just returned home from florida. she was telling us the story of how her yorkshire terrier, scooter, had finally died on the trip south. scooter was 17 years old, and had been ill for the past few months. we shared about how ill xena was. when we finally got upstairs at 8:45, we found that xena had passed away. greg had last looked in on her, and given her water, at 6:30 pm. chanda was very upset. even though i kept having her say good-bye to xena each time we left the apartment, she was still surprised. we are all very sad. i love my dear little warrior cat. dear, dear xena.

poster making

after the thunderstorm today, chanda and morgana worked on their posters for their dances: roman girl at a fountain, and four winds. i'm not sure who morgana is talking to on her cell phone!