The USO and Sesame Street teamed up to create a program specifically for military families. We were so excited when it made an appearance ( 2 nights) at our little gymnasium at Chievres. Its a small and often overlooked post, so a program like this coming here was a big deal. Wednesday night they had over 500 people and tonight was easily as many. The program was opened up to anyone with a US or NATO ID card, so there were many military families from SHAPE there as well.
The program was about a Muppet named, Katie, who was sad because she was going to have to move (PCS) from here friends at Sesame Street. Right away my son made the connection, "She has to move like I did." He's only 3 now, 3 and a half, but he still remembers moving from Texas in December and Georgia in May. He still talks about his friends in both places and one of them has almost become his imaginary friend. I was amazed that he made the connection that fast, but he did and he was invested in the program from then to the end.
There was lots of singing and dancing and some of the big characters, they were really only missing Oscar and Big Bird, in my opinion. We were told to get there early so we could have our pick of the choice floor spots. We were right up in front and he got to touch Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover and Rosita. (Rosita was new for me, she's a Hispanic girl in a pretty teal color) My son thought it was awesome and so did I. For Sesame Street to make a show to tour in Europe just for military families was a great honor. We loved it!
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