Canada trip - Day thirteen

Today had pancakes and bacon for breakfast, and Ocean and Jalyn ate with us! Then we had fiddle camp, even though only a few people showed up. The only fiddle student daddy taught was a girl named Keshay, which was exciting. One of the main reasons we came to Canada in the first place was because of a video Mr. Rodger sent to daddy of Keshay playing the fiddle. We were looking forward to hearing her play, but until today she hasn’t come to Fiddle Camp because of things at home.

The other major difference in today’s Fiddle Camp was that Lorien started offering prizes to her piano students. Those who learned Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star got an ice cream cone. Those who offered moral support to those who learned Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star also got an ice cream cone. Lorien got an entire bowl of ice cream because she was the teacher and she deserved it. Jalyn didn’t think Lorien deserved extra ice cream, because Lorien had made Jalyn practice an especially hard version of Twinkle Twinkle over and over for thirty minutes.

After Fiddle Camp ended, we all drove to the Zonneveld’s house for dinner and band practice. In between band songs, we took tremendously long, though well deserved breaks. For hours we played Quelf, Clue and Apples to Apples, until it was time to say goodbye. After many hugs, bye pats and pretend tears when little Savannah wouldn’t give hugs, we got in the car and headed back to Mr. Roger’s house. There we ate a midnight snack of sourdough cinnamon rolls that Mr. Rodger made for us, and finally - finally got in bed.

Here is a video of Keshay fiddling for some of her six brothers and sisters. This was her first day with us!

00063 from John Cockman on Vimeo.