What a GREAT Weekend!

We are home from the Mid-Atlantic Oireachtas (Every Thanksgiving, the Irish dancing schools from the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America gather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the regional Irish dancing championships.  Dancers and teachers, with their families and fans, travel from Delaware, New Jersey, New York and across Pennsylvania for solo and team competitions and coveted regional Irish dancing titles.) in Philadelphia and what an awesome weekend we had!  I have tons of pictures to share, but especially wanted to let you know how Hannah did.

Here is a picture of all of the kids who competed for Hannah's school, Rince Na Tiarna.

Hannah's first competition was at 8:45 Friday Morning and there were a lot of amazing dancers!  This was a solo competition and she took 19th for our Region, quite amazing for her first time at Oireachtas!  We are very proud of her!

Hannah's team competition was the last one of the day yesterday.  She was on the Under 12 girls figure team that consisted of 16 girls who did an amazing choreographed routine.

Here they are practicing on two different occasions.  Unfortunately, we are not allowed to video during the competition, so this is as much as I can show you.  There is no music, but hopefully you can get an idea.

All the girls on the team need to look the same, so here they are gluing the socks.

Hannah with her friend Katie.

Posing before they go to the competition.

The girls took 1st!!!!  Here they are going on stage to accept their trophy!

Some of the girls from Hannah's team were waiting for awards in another room, but here is the group that received the trophy.

Mary Kay Heneghan, Hannah's teacher is with the girls (on the left).

Each girl gets to have the trophy for a week, guess who has it first?  HANNAH!!!  She will share it with her school tomorrow.

Hannah with her friends Katie and Maddie!

We couldn't be prouder of RNT or our little girl!