Daddy daughter time

A month or so ago, a note came home from school about an orchestra field trip all the way to Utah.  One of the boxes at the bottom of the page said, "I would love to be a parent chaperon".  Shawn crossed off the words "love to", checked the box, and sent it back to school with Kami.

The orchestra was headed to Utah for a competition, and then they were going to spend the rest of the day at Lagoon.

Shawn may have crossed off that he would LOVE to go, but I could tell that he was pretty excited to go on this field trip with Kami as the big day drew nearer.  I don't know, it may have been the little things, like calling to talk to her while he was traveling so that they could plan what treats they wanted to bring along, that tipped me off that he was getting excited. And needless to say, Kami was excited all along.

I gave Shawn and Kami a few instructions the night before they left: for Kami to make sure she brought her camera, and for Shawn to take pictures of Kami playing in the competition, with her friends, with him, and at lagoon. Here's the best picture:

Kami and eight of her friends were assigned Shawn as their chaperon, and the day before they left, one of her friends that we have never met said, "How will I know which one is your dad?"  Kami quipped, "Oh.  He's the hot one!!" They got a kick out of that, and Shawn's buttons were popping off just hearing about it.

I think this is the picture I requested of Kami playing, but don't look too close (she's not in the picture.)

The orchestra took first place in their division and also won an award for good behavior, so they were thrilled. Shawn said they were "acting like they'd just won the state championship in basketball, or something" which surprised him because he had always imagined the arts to be more cultured and refined and there were kids that were whooping it up and hollering and there were boys from other schools that he noticed acting all macho about something they won. He had figured that just happened at sporting events.

Here is the back-side of Kami and all of her friends.  I always wanted documentation of that.

Next was lagoon, which I am sad to say was not documented by pictures at all.   Kami forgot to bring her camera, and I'm posting what I got from Shawn's cell phone :(

At lagoon, Kami showed how much she was like her mother and absolutely HATED every second of it. Shawn figures that there is only one kid in our family that would enjoy it and that would be Caden.  Anyway, although Kami didn't go on too many rides, she enjoyed hanging out with her friends and said that her favorite part of the whole trip was actually the bus ride home.  They had a long day, from leaving at 6:00 in the morning to arriving home at 12:30 last night.