Do Re Mi

Our kids have been obsessed with “The Sound of Music” for the last two months. We have the DVD constantly cued up to play any of the songs, as well as the CD in the car. This obsession culminated in “The Sound of Music” sing-a-long at the Hollywood Bowl, where we, and 20,000 other people sang along to the movie. It was the kids first official movie.

So, for Halloween this year, I ordered two dirndls from Germany. A dirndl is the traditional Austrian and Bavarian dress that is worn by Julie Andrews and all the girls in “The Sound of Music”. Note, the Baroness, played by Eleanor Parker, never wears a dirndl because she is a sophisticated evil woman from Vienna.

The girls tried on their dresses and sang “Do-Re-Mi”.

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