The choral program at Em's school put this on, a Dickens Caroling Festival. Basically a catered dinner and then Christmas carols performed by the Madrigals, the top choir.
Those holiday standards sure do sound different when sung by a group who knows how to sing harmony and has rehearsed, compared to a small hoard of freezing children and three adults who might have snuck too much brandy into their eggnog.
My only disappointment was they didn't work O Holy Night into the set, easily my favorite Christmas song. Em says it's not really Dickens-ish and not really a carol, more of a concert piece. Whatever.
The only really tricky part was trying to get Em to stand still for an actual picture in her getup. I have much better pictures of her friends, they stop, pose and even smile when I just threaten to take a picture.
The desserts were quite cooperative and photogenic as well. Good to eat, too.
After, we gave my former mother in law a ride home and I got to catch up on some family gossip and whatnot, which was nice. The marriage didn't work out, but I don't have anything against those folks, and I was related to them for thirteen years.
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