Street Dancing

Today is Aurora Day- celebrating the foundation of the province of Aurora. For the past week there have been different events such as a surfing competition, a beauty contest, a drum and lyre competition, and more in Baler (the town about 20 minutes from us on the coast). Yesterday was the street dancing competition. We missed it last year and it was an event that I really wanted to see. We haven't gone to any of the other events this year, due to some rain and hoping that a certain baby boy would make his appearance instead :) But the weather was nice, baby boy seems content right where he is, and we were getting a little stir crazy so we joined some friends yesterday morning to watch the traditional street dancing. I'm so glad we did! The competitors are made up of elementary and high schools from different municipalities in Aurora. The costumes were beautiful, representing different ancient tribes, and the students did a wonderful job performing. It was so fun to see this part of the culture! Many of our friends danced when they were students so it was neat to see a little part of their past as well. The pictures just don't do it justice, but enjoy!

 I know not everyone can relate to this, but the street dancing competition took me straight back to my high school competitive cheerleading days. The crowd was wild! The mothers were practically climbing up each others' backs so they could see their children perform. The human stunts that some of the students acted out were thrilling. And best of all, there were sounds of bells going wild. For me it sounded just like cowbells at a Kossuth Aggies game (or cheer competition) or even Davis Wade Stadium on MSU game day. But the best part was when I turned around to see the proud bell ringers, I found that it was a couple of ice cream men competing for customers. I quickly snapped back into the Philippines and out of high school cheer world ha. 

 Although Josh and I missed a few performances due to a pregnant bathroom break, snack break, and get-off-my-swollen-feet break, we had a great time. Not to mention how nice it was to get our minds out of baby world for a while :) Now maybe all that dancing and cheering will encourage Baby Boren to make his grand entrance. 5 days 'til the due date!