What my kids got out of the Stake Cultural Arts Festival

We went to a Cultural Arts Festival last night. It was great! The only disappointment was when they announced the Cueca (the Chilean National Dance) and the curtain lifted to about 8 girls in red sequin pants outfits. The cueca is a love story about a guy and girl. The outfits were wrong, the participants were wrong, the music was like nothing I ever heard in Chile and then the girls started tap dancing? Don't know what happened to the cueca, they never did come back to it, but the MC then came out and announced the oops! - it was an Irish dance. At least I got to hear the Chilean National Anthem before that.
I asked my kids what they liked best about it. Rachel and Sarah of course absolutely loved the dancing and sparkly costumes. All through the singing the girls kept asking if there would be more dancing and how many more dances. Sarah exclaimed about the costumes, "They are so pretty! Mommy, look, they are so pretty!" The boys' favorite was the Hallelujah Chorus at the end. Because, when they play Worms (an old favorite they've started playing again after a few years' break), there is a Hallelujah bomb that sings "Hallelujah!" followed by a boom when the bomb hits and blows up everything. So all during the song, every time they heard " Hallelujah!" they followed it up with a "boom!" sound effect in their minds. At least now they know where that came from - well, at least they know a little more of the song.
And they liked watching the polynesian haka dance. (The war dance where they slap and clap and stick their tongues out and make fearful faces to scare the enemy and pump themselves up. We have a missionary here with polynesian roots and he really got into it.) We looked up the haka again on youtube when we got home. Sarah started trying to say it and dance it. So cute! Sam said the missionary's face at the end was the best.