April 22

This is the beautiful churches episode of the slide show, with a little "Maggie's concert" thrown in.


This is Maggie's concert. She'll need to do the remembering.

The program that I have in my scrapbook says that the choir was an all-school choir. I remember that my teacher was the director, so I had thought it was just for my class. Now that I think about it, it seems like he thought it would be a big coup to have an american singing in their choir, and talked me into joining it. The program also says it was sponsored by the "Concejalia de Educacion". Maggie

This is the front of the Ayuntamiento, or city hall.





I think this is in the south of France near the Spanish border. We saw in on our way to tour Italy and Switzerland in the furgoneta. Dad


View from the top of the Cathedral in Murcia.
You can see the rounded top of the facade in the background.

Dad






I think this is that building in Seville that I already mentioned Daddy told us that part of Lawrence of Arabia was filmed there.. Mary and Elizabeth are chasing the birds.




A scene along the highway in Andalucia when we went down there for the Christmas Holidays. Dad


I think this is in France near Chartres. Dad


Our completely home-decorated Christmas tree. This is taken from the middle of our living room. THis is where Mark would slide in on his stockinged feet as if possessed and assume the role of Dangerous Dan? Disco Dan? Whenever he heard the song "You Won't Go To The Ball" by Simply Red? The Communards? He would dance a smooth disco. (Jenny)

I seem to remember making sucker angels for the tree but I can't see them in the picture. Am I remembering a different year, or had we all eaten the suckers by the time the picture was taken?

Maggie

Christmas morning. My Christmas memory is that Mommy and Daddy told us that we wouldn't get very much for Christmas and that we could ask for one small thing. So there was a two-tape collection of all of the songs that had been popular that year that I thought would be great to have and bring home to show everyone the popular songs of Spain and I asked for that. And I remember we were on our last shopping trip and I kept reminding Mommy and Daddy and they kept saying that they just didn't know, it was probably a little too expensive... (about $12) and then Daddy ended up having to leave the rest of us to go look for Mark because we could find him and I had a really big meltdown crying about how it wasn't fair, that was the only thing I wanted, boo hoo, and finally Mommy got angry and said, "Oh for heaven's sake, we got you the tapes but we thought you would want to at least have a little surprise about it on Christmas morning, but no, now you know exactly what you're getting, are you happy?" And I wasn't. They were right. They always are. I would have rather been surprised but I ruined it myself with my whining. (Jenny)

I remember that I got a little basket sewing kit for Christmas. Mommy was always embroidering the pillowcases that she had taken with her and I was always asking to help so she got me my own sewing box and she let me cut up the underwear that the younger girls and I had outgrown and make clothes for the Barbie Dolls. She told me to be especially careful with the box, becuase it had cost more than she had budgeted to spend, and I had better appreciate it. I still have the box, it holds all my recuerdos from Spain, my S pin from high school and my Miss Spring City sash.

I also remember that Grandma sent us Multicultural Barbies for Christmas and the one she found for me was a Spanish Flamenco Dancer. Mommy would not let me play with it, since it was so nice looking and I remember being angry about that, but since I still have the doll, and it still looks nice and new, I have to agree with her.

Maggie

I got a mom and baby Barbie from Grandma and Grandpa Farrer. We took our presents to the branch Christmas party to put under the tree for decoration and one small portion of the paper from my present was scratched, so I also know that the box was baby blue with tiny pink hearts. I was a little upset that my Barbie was a mom, because I guess that didn't fit the image that I had of Barbie.

In the stairway picture, Maggie is wearing a purple jacket. Elizabeth and I had matching jackets, too, one pink and the other blue. Because of hand-me-downs, I had all three, so I can't remember whether my original jacket was pink or blue. Bizzie might remember which hers was.
Mary Jane






Cathedral in Murcia- at least that's what the slide said. No memories here, although I'm pretty sure that's me in the pinkish orange next to Mark in the yellow and Jacob in the blue and gray in front of the fountain. (Jenny)

Don't remember much about the churches. I do remember getting frustrated and mad at Mommy and Daddy that we had to stop and see EVERY single church in Europe (or so it seemed). Maggie