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Final Week Notes

Dancing with the Waco Stars is over...and Stephanie and I were extremely pleased with our performance.  We cannot thank those who supported us and the Family Abuse Center enough!  I hope to provide some more details but as of the Monday before the show we had over $11,000 in votes and ticket sales.  Not enough to win...but that just means FAC won all the more overall.  I think over $120,000 as of Monday totals.

I also hope to have video to share of our dance.  Yes, I will share...the goal met:  I am not ashamed (far from it).  Stephanie is a miracle worker.

In the meantime, a few final week photos and thoughts.

DRESS REHEARSAL:  Sunday was dress rehearsal at the Waco Hippodrome.  We had one run through of the routine.  It went well, but I slept very, very poorly that night running through every mistake in my mind.  Nerves suddenly as the event became very real!!!



HAIR (no makeup!) and TIME TO DANCE

Thursday we did a short rehearsal on stage and then I had hair.  Effective as when I got home Mandy thought Ryan Gosling had shown up👦.  Far and away the most "product" I have ever had in my hair.  And, by the way one of the sacrifices for my "art" - letting my hair grow.  Already have an appointmetn to fix that now!!!

A later post will be about the actual show...

AFTER PARTY

Here is the family after the show (in front of the Hippodrome).  I wonder if I had the longest traveling fans (with mom/brother from Nevada, sister/nieces from California).  No, that is not Ryan Gosling (you now get Mandy's confusion).

Mandy is taking the photo, but here we are at the Palladium for the after party, joined by Stephanie.



A SMALL REWARD

After a great family day Friday, I went to Heritage Creamery.  I actually lost around 15 pounds during the course of the DWTWS journey.  This was largely due to motivation from early videos of dance practice - I was definitely getting a bit chubby and so dieted along the way to be as svelte as possible for the show.  These were my weekend rewards for the effort.  SOOOO good!


Brown Butter Pecan (snickerdoodle cookie) and Mint Stratiatella (sp?) (Chocolate Chip cookie)


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