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Wow!  Blog stats around here are pretty minimal of late, but I can’t say I blame y’all.  In the rush and excitement of Nationals and a trip halfway across the country, blogging took a backseat to other activities.

The tournament itself was fabulous in every respect (check out results and more here).  As can probably be expected by now, I put together a video blog of the event—only this time, it grew to massive proportions.  It’s hardly possible to cover Nationals in the space of ten minutes, but I gave it a shot:

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Sunday evening was our spring orchestra concert, and an amazingly fun event.  We performed pieces from Pirates of the Caribbean, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Patriot—I love movie soundtracks.  And, for our community orchestra, we did pretty well.

My dad taped most of the songs, but due to technical difficulties (okay, due to my impatience to deal with the technical difficulties) I’ve only uploaded the Irish medley Toni, Katy and I performed at the end.  Musicians, please ignore the fact that my violin is woefully out of tune.  You may now proceed:

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Some April Fool’s Day jokes are too good to pass up—especially when they’re perpetrated by the world’s largest broadcaster, BBC.  Take a step back in time, to April 1st, 1957…

Nor has BBC forgotten its tradition of April foolery.  Last year, the world was given a glimpse of a previously unknown wonder:

Humor is a wonderful thing.

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Once again, a montage of our adventures thus far.  If you hear a strange popping sound in the background, rest assured it isn’t popcorn—just the point-and-shoot camera I’m recording with.

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Or, in plain English, “Ireland forever!”  Two of our friends, Josh and Abby, are over for a couple nights, and with so many musicians in one place it was simply impossible to let an occasion like St. Patrick’s Day pass without a musical tribute.  So I present our very own Irish session music—probably “traditional” only in the fact that we had no idea where we’d end up when we started.

Excuse the annoying information bar across the top.  Someday I’ll figure out our video camera.

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