Let's try on a pair of ballet shoes. |
Salem's RAD Ballet exams are on Sunday so I painted his white ballet shoes with the proper leather shoe paint.
His ballet shoes were looking worse for wear and all the colour was worn off in big patches.
So I painted his shoes according to the instructions on Tuesday night.
Wednesday afternoon I checked the shoes and took the paper out of them that I used to keep them in shape and the paint cracked...... they cracked a lot!!!!!
No good for class let alone his exams.
Not quite the right fit. |
So today as Salem had no ballet classes, we caught the train into Wellington to by him a new pair of ballet shoes.
We don't have any dance wear shops out here in Kapiti.
So it was off to our favourite shop Gubb's.
Success!!!!! |
Salem had to try on quite a few pairs of shoes to get the right fit.
He has quite narrow feet and luckily they had an older pair of Paul Wright ballet shoes which was a perfect fit and a better quality leather. The newer pairs have very different leather and a slightly different coloured white.
It ended up being a size smaller than his last pair which was a Bloch pair (an old pair of his brothers).
But we have a pair which will be worn in tomorrow, Salem can walk about the house with them on and we are going up to the gym tomorrow for a last practice before his exams.
The day off dancing today did him a lot of good and he is more relaxed.
We went to the Wellington Botanic Gardens and he took lots of photos with his film camera and he had a great time hanging out with the ducks and pigeons.
A good mental health day ;^)
he have so athletic and full stretchable boy in new Zealand. really wonder full job he done it. Ballet exam had fair competition to select best talent.
ReplyDeleteBallet business | Rachel Withers
Thank you Maria, best wishes from New Zealand - Salem :-)
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