Becky's Big Day

While, of course, we try to make every day Mother's Day, last Sunday we had an excuse to pay special attention to the most revered and cherished member of our family!  So, here's a quick rundown of the events, then we'll go to the pictures:

Sunday (previous):  Announcement that regularly scheduled church service will be replaced by a professional Christian ballet troupe.
Thursday:  Call from a church friend that they needed a boy to play Pharaoh's son in the production of the story of Moses.  Reid jumped at the chance.
Saturday:  Reid's friend-who's-a-girl tells him (all the while quite jealous) that a ballet is where people prance around.  Slight look of fear / anxiety when Reid asks me if he would have to dance.  For some reason I played it straight and told him he just had to play dead.
Sunday:  Run Reid to the theatre at 9am for his "training".  Praise music, then ballet from 10:15 to 12pm.  Lunch reservations at 12:30pm.  At the hotel where we ate, free portrait sitting for the kids from 2:15 to 4:15pm (Bec headed off for a foot massage with her friend at 3:15).  Made it home by 4:30.  Pizza for dinner for the kids, as the adults were too full.

The start of the ballet.

A colorful display when Moses finds his new family after being exiled for killing the Egyptian slave driver.

There's Reid in the chair watching Egyptians who were walking like, you guessed it, Egyptians.

Reid standing next to Pharaoh looking unimpressed (and quite tough / stoic) by the show around him. 

Reid's big moment - lay there like a wet dish rag.  The Angel of Death in the last plague did not pass over Reid that night.  It was unanimous that Reid delivered the best dead Pharaoh's son performance ever seen in Suzhou.

Why are they celebrating???  Don't they know that was Reid McLain that died?  Oh yeah, the Jewish slaves were freed.

Reid with Pharaoh after the production was over.

At lunch there was an outstanding buffet and a clown, who could ask for anything more?

Well, I guess there's always chocolate fondue drippings.

Oh yeah, that's good.

My lovely bride and the object of her affection.  I know, I question her judgement sometimes too.

RiRo posing for the portrait.  Yes, that's someone from the hotel taking a picture of them while they are posing for someone to draw their likeness.

Well worth the two hour wait!  Reid's looks great, we still don't know who those kids are on the right.

It's always nice to get a surprise picture of a knuckle head, who you apparently can't leave your camera around.

What's better than one knucklehead?  That's right, two!  Good times.