Thursday 1-23 Dancing and Card Bingo

Saying bye to friends

We started the day out by going to a C1 Dance with Ross Howell. This was the second week we danced to Ross here in the Valley. We had three squares and an extra couple. Before the dance Sharon, Mike and I were talking and Ross stopped by to ask Sharon what moves she was having trouble with considering they had just learned C1. She said mainly the big moves when they're not vanilla. One of the calls was Relay the Shadow, the vanilla positions are where the ladies do the outside part while the men do the inside parts. Ross walked us through this call and put us in different positions. He also walked us through other moves people were having trouble with. Ross did a great job. As we were leaving we said our good-byes to Ross considering we're leaving the Valley tomorrow afternoon. We had a great morning dancing with Ross Howell.

Ross Howell

We had an hour and a half lunch break so we went back to the Minnie and had soup for lunch. This gave us a little extra time to rest.

This week we decided to change things up and go to Bronc Wise's Thursday afternoon A2 Dance. Bronc was going to be out of town for the weekend so he asked Marty Northup to call, he's out of Clove, South Carolina. He wasn't that good of an A2 caller. He admitted this because he has only been calling A for three years. The floor was broken down a lot but I give him credit he kept trying. The problems weren't totally his fault because we did have some weak dancers. During the dance we went around and said our good-byes to our A2 dancing friends.    

Square Dancing is fun

In the evening I went over to the recreation hall at J-Five to play card bingo. We had 22 people. The paybacks for the games were five games at $3.20, the sixth game was $6.00, a break, five more games at $3.20 and the last game $6.00. In the group of four I was playing with we won 5 out of 12 games. One lady won three of the games, two at $3.20 and one at $6.00. I won one at $3.20 and a gentleman next to me won one at $3.20. There was only one game where the payback had to be shared by two people so each of them won $1.60. At the end of the games I said good-bye to everyone. I had a fun night playing card bingo.

When I got home I finished doing 15,000 steps, which was about 150 steps over my goal. We had a super day.