12-20 TIPS Christmas Dance

Wendell Moore, Dale Smith and David Cox

 Wow, can you believe it!!! Christmas is only a few days away. Have you done your Christmas shopping, yet? Larry and I finished, yesterday and I even wrapped them all. The only one I didn't wrap was me. I almost forgot he is my Christmas present. This afternoon we went to our last Christmas dance of the year, the TIPS Christmas Dance in the Waco area. We showed up early to dance with the class. They didn't have any students so it really was an hour workshop and two hour dance. There were two squares for the workshop and three for the dance. TIPS stands for Texas Independent Plus Squares so we danced to plus moves. Dale Smith and Wendell Moore are the club callers. They took turns calling. We had a special treat, David Cox and his wife Donna from North Carolina. David called a tip and joined Dale and Wendell in calling the last tip of the dance. While David called Donna danced in a square. When he wasn't calling he danced with Donna. He was a good caller. We had a great time.

Kathy Potter enjoying herself during a tip

Larry courtesy turning Suzanne

Allemande left with my corner Larry

Our friends doing the allemande thar

Dale Smith calling a tip during the dance

Larry and Belinda enjoying the dance

Wendell and Pat Moore enjoying the dance

Greg and Betsy Fanning enjoying themselves during the dance

Dale and his granddaughter Phoenix

In the evening we watched Robby Hecht on Concert Window. Robby Hecht is a folk singer/songwriter. He gave a good concert, sang a Townes Van Zandt song called If I Needed You.  After the concert Larry went to YouTube and we listened to Townes sing it. It is a beautiful song. We watched a few square dancing videos. Had a super day.