Will Dances

Shopped on-line for cars Friday night, after putting the van in the shop. Watched as the Watertown Police apprehended the second bombing suspect.

Saturday morning I stopped by the bank, stopped by the library, and retrieved needed items from the van. As usual, we got a late start headed out on our trip to Athens. We avoided 316 and instead drove up 85 to highway 139. This brought us into Athens right by the Classic Center, where Will's afternoon event was just letting out. We visited with Will for a while, then Ceil browsed in Five Points while I got the boys something to eat. Matthew ate some Varsity dogs, and I got Will a Barbarritos burrito.

Two campus ministries, the Methodist Wesley Foundation and the Baptist Campus Ministry, combined to produce this big dance recital: an afternoon and evening performance of 17 separate dances put on by well over 75 students. The Athens Classic Center was filled to capacity for both performances. Will "danced" in one of the seventeen numbers with a group of male students, all dressed in red T-shirts, black sweatpants. Most, including Will, wore red shoes. His group received some of the loudest cheers of the night.

We sat with Charissa's parents, who we know well. Charissa choreographed the dance routine that Will's group performed. Charissa and fellow Living Science graduate Lisa Seo also danced. Anna used to dance with Charissa at the Eastside School of Ballet. One of the guys in Will's group is the son of a lady I had sung with in Chapel Choir at SPdL, Margaret Dudley Bryant. She sat on our row, along with the daughter of SPdL alum Danny Downing. Will's former teammate Will Bartlett, a recent UGA grad, was there as well. After the performance we saw Lisa's family. After Lisa graduates next month she is starting a job in Target's fashion department, in Savannah. Charissa hopes to land a teaching position down there as well. Lisa's older sister Sarah recently found a job in Atlanta.

Afterward we walked downtown and ate at "The Grill." The diner was packed. I saw one of the red-T-shirt guys that Will had danced with, sitting in a booth with one of Will's old little league baseball coaches. Until then Will had not realized that Phillip was the older brother of one of his baseball teammates. There were several others in the restaurant that Will knew as well. Will said he wasn't hungry, the proceeded to eat half of Ceil's burger AND half of Matthew's burger. There were plenty of choices on the menu, but I chose the Big Molly, a pretty good half pound burger. We didn't leave Athens until 11:45, and it was 1:00 am before we made it home.

School is winding down for Will. He's going to make one A minus and two A's. In one class he scored just one point away from an A, but he's writing a paper to raise the grade to an A. His flag football team lost a playoff game, but he said he caught two spectacular touchdown passes.

Sunday I paid bills on my laptop and did enough yardwork to have my back ache again. Couldn't get Will's lawnmower to crank, so the grass didn't get cut. There's still laundry to do, as well as insurance forms to mail, and I didn't get the summer clothes out of the attic. This week is the open house at work, and I need my Ryerson shirt from the attic. Watched the Braves, and figured out how our Netflix works.