I am so happy my dance group made it to the dance competition state finals.  We got first place at our competition last night.  We got a trophy, each of us got a gold medel that says dance champions on it, and we got $50.00 per person.  We also cheered and did a group hug.  We got many congratulations and a lot of people came up and shook our hands.  My family was so proud of me.  They also hugged me and told me that I was a great lead dancer.  Our dance teacher congratulated all of us on our success and our hard work and she congradulated me on being a wonderful lead dancer.  She also encouraged us and told us that she had faith in us that  we would do great doing state finals also.  Doing the announcements doing the 3 groups that won and got to go on to state finals my group and I were standing close to eachother looking at eachother waiting for the results and the announcer announce 3rd place first, then he announced 2nd, then 1st.  When he announced our group for 1st place, we were so happy.  We all screamed with Joy and did a group hug.  We were thrilled about getting 1st place and getting into state finals.  The auditions last night were at 8:15 p.m. , they were going to be at 5:30 p.m. last night but it was reschelduled a few hours later, since we got a lot of snow.  State finals are held tonight at 8:15 p.m. .  1st place group winners get $700.00 for the group, 2nd place group winners get $500.00 for the group, and 3rd place winners get $300.00 for the group.  Plus they each get a certificate, and ribbons. First place group winners also get a group trophy, plus a small trophy per person. The state finals competition is tonight.  I am excited but also nervous.  I hope we win the state finals competition, like we did doing the competition last night.