Ballerina Katie

Speaking of Vienna, originally we were going to go for 3-4 days as Thursday, 3/15 was Hungarian Revolution Day (1848)...not to be confused with Hungarian Revolution Day (1956) which is in October of course.

In Hungary, when a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday everyone gets the corresponding Monday or Friday off as well. I know what you're thinking, that's even better than working for New York State (hi Dad)...but there's a catch. In order to get Friday off, you have to work the previous Saturday!

The point is that Anna had Thursday 3/15 & Friday 3/16 off so why not go to Vienna earlier and get in a few extra days? Well, for whatever reason, Katie only had Thursday off and had school on Friday. Now, it's only Kindergarten and we were tempted to just pull her out for the day (like 2/3 of the rest of her class) but there was one problem:

Katie has started taking Ballet lessons on Friday afternoons after school. She's had 4 lessons so far and she LOVES them and has a great time. There was no way we could ask her to miss ballet.



Obviously she's half a year behind the other girls, but is doing really well so far and who cares anyway as long as she is loving it. There's a big show in May that they are just starting to practice for so they all should be on the same page-ish.