Emily's First Concert

Today was Emily's music concert and it was being held at the University of Melbourne. The University is just past the hospitals on Flemington Road which I walk to everyday.  We looked at taking public transport but it was a bit convoluted and since it had stopped raining we decided to brave the walk.  The concert was at 10:15am which meant that we needed to leave an hour before.  We started getting ready 45 minutes before the hour mark and barely left at the allocated time.  I believe that leaving the house with children is one of the most difficult things to do.
I have now looked at a map and we hiked a hilly 5km with a double stroller to get to Emily's concert.  That's dedication little one.  We got to the campus and couldn't find St. Hilda's College which was off the map and only had 12 minutes to get there.  We were losing hope we would get there in time.  The map on campus was not as accurate as the one on my phone so despite crossing an intersection halfway and then doubling back we made it to the concert with 30 seconds to spare.  This is where marriage truly is a partnership as Keith threw me his wallet, I paid for the tickets and he walked in to the room and on to the stage.  He walked directly on to the stage because they had called the "babies" and he saw the small shakers that the music teacher had said they would use at the concert and naturally thought it was his group.  He didn't realize that the 1-2 class that Emily was in was indeed not the "baby" class.  One of the moms from his class saw him go up and went up beside him since they are in the same class.  The babies performed 3 songs. Keith and his sidekick knew none of them - good thing baby songs are easy to fake.
So Emily had an extended first concert as she performed her "encore" with her 1-2 group.  There are no pics of her smiling - she takes her music very seriously.  The 1-2 year old age group got blue ribbons and she is examining hers in the picture below.
The whole concert lasted less than 45 minutes but it was cute to see the different groups and how much they learned about music before age 5.  We walked downtown to have lunch and celebrate Emily's concert.  Cian picked sushi even though we had sushi the night before (he loves his sushi) but at $2 a roll it's a pretty cheap reward for an "excellent audience member".  Emily shared my ominyaki (spelling) and Keith's fries and all in all it was a lovely morning.  We took the train back home and in total walked 8.5 km - a cardiovascular artistic endeavour - but worth seeing my little girl shake her maraca on the beat.