A Concert!

Dear Lulu and Hammer,

We were lucky enough to get tickets to see the Mormon Tabernacle choir concert last Sunday! It was a special concert with a guy named Santino Fontana and Sesame Street! Kids 5 and up were invited to attend, so Dad and I took you guys. Grammie was nice enough to stay home and watch the little boys for us.
We left pretty early in the morning so we could park and get a seat at the Conference Center. Our tickets only told us what section to sit in. As we hurried up the escalators we saw Nana and Scott and stopped to say hi for a minute. Then we went up some more escalators and found our section. We were just on time to get good seats, right on the aisle and close to the bottom of our section!
The first half hour of the show was being broadcast live on tv. I thought it was so exciting when all 21,000 of us sat quietly while a girl on the stage counted down the cameras. One minute, then thirty seconds, then countdown from 10 to 1. Then the sound of the symphony and choir filled the giant room and brought chills to my arms!
At 10 the broadcast was over and the rest of the concert with Sesame Street started. Hammer, you had a little bit of a hard time sitting for that long and you were only slightly amused by the characters. I saw you looking around at the ceiling and looking behind you, trying to figure out how all of it worked. Mostly you just kept telling us that you were starving. Lulu, you didn't sit super still but you enjoyed the whole show. You laughed with us at the jokes and told me that the Count's song about the 12 days of Christmas was hilarious, even if you also had to keep asking me "What did he say?" You also laughed with us at Ernie calling Santino "Fantino Santana" and "Santino Bambino." Dad and I thought Santino had a great voice too. He is very talented and is pleasant to listen to.
And now, some pictures...
Before it started:

 The whole stage:

  Big Bird conducting!:

See the box around the trees in the center? That's where the smaller muppets came up to talk. And the dancers came out of the black door on the far right:

When it was over we hurried out to walk back to our car before a million other people tried to leave too. It was lightly snowing as we hurried along, and it made the whole experience feel even more like Christmas for me.
Daddy says he enjoyed it but he would rather just watch it from home, especially since most of what we could see was on the big tv screen, and that's what you see at home too. I think you agree with him Hammer. Lulu, you and I thought it was exciting to be there and experience it in person.
Thanks for coming along my loves!
Mom