Line dancing

On Wednesdays, there are line dancing lessons here at the park. They start with "Absolute Beginner" at 12:15pm, then go to "Beginner" at 12:30pm, and then "High Beginner" at 1:15pm. We first joined back in January, and the instructor went through three dances in the 15 minutes allocated for "Absolute Beginner", and we left! After we got home, we were able to do one of the three and diligently practiced it over the next few weeks.

Last week, we returned to the lessons again. We weren't sure whether they were going to do the one dance that we felt we knew, but it turned out they did, and we kept up!!! Whoo-hoo!!!

When we had come in January, most people were not wearing masks while dancing... but last week, almost everyone was. They moved the time of the lessons to 10am because it is too warm at 12:15pm now. It still seemed awfully warm to have a mask on while we were moving and we saw that a few other folks took their masks down, so we did also.

The second dance that they taught was a waltz -- Carl was doing really well!

The instructor sends out "step sheets" that outline the steps of the dance, and often there are videos of folks doing the dances, and sometimes even lessons being done. So, we can try to practice more at home. The waltz line dance is easy to do in the motorhome because it just goes forward and backward (not to all 4 corners like many line dances). We have room to go forward and backward, but when a dance turns 90 degrees, we don't have as much space that way.

It is funny to me... when I used to go for C&W dance lessons in Dallas, we pretty much learned the same things every week -- and we only did two different line dances at that club. Now it seems that there is a different dance for every song! I guess it keeps your mind and body active!