Jason and I joined the Regina Ballroom Dance Club last fall… I have watched too many fun movies (starting in the 80’s with Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Dirty Dancing, Shall We Dance, and many others) and I wanted to give it a try.  It looked like way too much fun on the big screen.  I never went to any school dances and I grew up in pretty conservative ’sit on your hands and don’t make any noise’ church, so at the beginning of class we were both pretty out of our comfort zones to say the least!  But luckily we’re not the only ones in that boat.

We’re been learning a few of the most basic dances since the fall, and 6 weeks ago an older gentleman with the dance club convinced us to sign up for an extra class to do a performance in April for the whole club (500 people) at the last dance of the year.  Knowing us, you might ask us what he did to convince us to do such a thing.  I still don’t know why on earth we signed up for this…it’s laughable even when I think of going through with it, but we’ve been having fun at our practices!  So we’ll look like this by the end of it all…

 Just kidding…maybe something more like this…

We’re doing a swing routine- not latin quite yet.  Less than a month to practice, but it’s pretty fun to know the steps well enough to have fun just dancing.  Our group that we’ll be performing with is with 5 other couples and we have less than a month before showtime.

More practicing to do and shoe shopping are on this week’s list of to do’s.  If anyone can give me tips on how to walk in high heels that’d be a great pre-requisite for learning how to dance in them.  What a silly idea.  AIYAH!  If I don’t fall on my face it will be something! 

And you should see Jason’s moves…move over Ricky Martin!