Folkfest Day 3 - Wed. July 28

Today we got to sleep in and then Dennis made them fried potatoes, scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast and they seemed to really like it. They had to be at BYU to play and answer questions to one of the dance classes. You can see photo's and a video clip here. While they were doing that, Amanda and I ran to the grocery store and Costco. We only had 45 minutes to do our shopping for the week and get gas. It never fears that when you are in a great hurry, that is when everyone moves extra slow. We were 15 minutes late getting back. Even though Alisha and Randy were with the Spaniards the entire time, Amanda's and I's group wandered away from them and went looking for my car. When we got back to BYU no one knew where they were. Just as we were about to panic, I got a phone call from Cesar. They had stopped at a Jamba Juice nearby since they could not find my car and borrowed someone's cell phone and called me. Thank goodness the Folkfest had us fill out wallet sized cards with our name, address and phone numbers in such cases as this. When I went into Jamba Juice to get them, they were playing and singing to the employees there. It was awesome.

We were supposed to meet the rest of the host families from our group at Nun's Park for a picnic. We ended up being an hour late due to our being late from shopping and loosing them/hunting for them. We had a good lunch of chicken (we had both fried and rotisserie chicken available and the rotisserie was all eaten and very little of the fried), potato salad, watermelon, vegetable tray and chips. After lunch we walked up to Bridal Veil Falls. They carried their instruments up with them, and after walking to a rock in the middle of the water, played a song for everyone there.

We had to leave there in a hurry in order for them to be back to the Arts Park for a 5:30 sound check (the sound people really dropped the ball the night before and made special arrangements to have this early practice before the other countries come at 6:00. Of course, we were all late once again. Tonight was another night of great (and different) performances. We got home at 12:30 and they wanted to eat for their snack what they had last night.