It's Christmas in September!

Well, it's official...it's Christmas time! It was my first day of rehearsal today and we jumped right in and started learning "12 Days!!!" (this is the crazy 8 minute cardio tap number where we dance out all of the 12 days of Christmas!) It felt good to jump right in, however the first day feet blisters are definitely not a fun thing, but once I figure out the perfect way to tape my feet I should be golden. Tomorrow we should learn our line-up order. I'm always curious about the line-up because I've had such a varied position in my years of being a Rockette, like my first year I was 10th from center and last time I was 2nd from center! If we have a shorter group I should be close to center, if we have a tall group I'll be somewhere in the middle. I hope I'm closer to center!!! The space that we are rehearsing in is really cool! It's called Sonalysts, and its a huge studio lot full of production sets. There have been movies and music videos that have been filmed here, plus other concert/ arena tours that have also used this space for rehearsals. In the hallways they have all these posters of artists that have done something there....today I saw Rascal Flatts, Barry Manilow and the Cheetah Girls! Oh ya, and one more cool thing...apparently our stage has a runway!! Now I don't know what that means, we never had a runway at Radio City, but you could see a little catwalk action from the Rockettes! How fun would that be?!?