Winter Concert Fiasco

We attended the Montana City Middle School Winter Concert tonight. Justice & his friend, Bryson have been practicing for weeks for a Trumpet Duet. Justice was super nervous but they did a fabulous job! It was fun that we knew so many people in the concert. They had singing, dancing, piano soloists, trumpets, violin duets, and some pretty funny commentary. It was a pretty impressive night...

...until halfway through- some commotion on the front row quickly turned the night into quite the fiasco!!!! At first, we thought someone's Grandpa had fainted from the heat of so many people in the room. But within a minute or so- we realized this would not be the typical Winter Concert. One of the teachers started doing CPR within minutes of the grandpa hitting the floor. He had a heart-attack was lying dead on the floor. Wowzers! They tried to clear the bleachers and took as many kids as possible out of the room. However- none of us could leave so that the ambulance wouldn't have to fight the traffic of a parking lot full of cars being emptied. They continued CPR, took down the gym door so they could get the stretcher in all while we stood shocked against the back wall. When his heart finally started beating and became somewhat coherent- the ambulance with the EMTs showed up. As soon as they got him up and out of the room, they canceled the rest of the concert for the evening. There was some scared, sad and mad kiddos in the back room. We chatted about how it was probably the best call for the evening. Especially because if it had been someone in our family- we wouldn't have wanted to finish out the concert. Most of them understood but still a little sad about how hard they have worked all year to prepare for tonight. Here's what we missed-

Quite the adventure. The man survived though so that was a blessing for sure. It was probably a blessing in disguise that he was there when it happened. The next day they did discuss that they may do a makeup concert sometime in January. Guess we'll see.