Celebration Iowa

We all traveled to Decorah, Iowa yesterday to stay in a hotel so we could take Caleb to Luther College for his final audition for Celebration Iowa today.

What a stressful week of packing, shopping, worry and stress.

Packing is never fun because I have always felt that I do almost all of it. This time not only for Caleb who will be gone for 2 months, but for all of us since we were all staying overnight.

Shopping this week happened 4 times. Caleb had a large list of things he needed, some things for his costumes and some things for just the everyday stuff. After 4 shopping trips he has it all, or we hope he does because I seriously don't want to mail anything.

Worry and Stress came from all the wondering if Caleb would pass his final audition. He had to have his music memorized, all of it and there was at least 25 songs. That's a ton in my opinion to have memorized and as of Friday night he didn't have it all memorized so I was stressing big time because I knew that IF he didn't make the final audition it would be a Super LONG van ride home that I wouldn't want to be in, and then an even longer summer with a bummed out Caleb.
Also the worry and stress that goes along with leaving a child behind for 2 months.

Here are some pictures of most of the children in the pool at the hotel.

Pictures from the pool at our hotel

Daniel doing a flip. Look at what the sign says behind him.

Caleb, Daniel, Jared, Brenden, Alyssa, Scott all posing for a picture I had to have.

The sign on Caleb's dorm room.

Caleb and some of the cast members of Celebration Iowa practicing their songs in the lobby of the hotel. What a beautiful sound. I'll post the video I took soon.






If you want to send Caleb mail send it to:

Caleb Clark

Celebration Iowa

Luther College

700 College Drive

Decorah, IA 52101

It was encouraged at our parent meeting today to send our son lots of mail, so if you feel like you have a moment and want to do so, please do.

Also, if you haven't received your thank you note yet, it is coming. Caleb is working on them and did appreciate all money sent to sponsor him. If you didn't send anything and still want to send something please do, the Celebration Iowa program can receive money for Caleb up until the end of July.