Dancing Starts

Our morning walk took us around the park exploring. We had noticed a Shuffleboard Pavilion on the map, and we decided to visit it. It's an imposing building, clearly set up for tournament play, with trophies on display and spectator seating. And of course it's indoors and air conditioned, by far the classiest shuffleboard facilities we've ever seen.

We also stopped by the laundry room. It's clean and has rows of identical looking machines, but it turned out that some of the dryers are labeled for light loads and run for 30 minutes while others cost more and run 40 minutes. Our preference is to have the kind of machines that you can add quarters to for more time rather than a preset time. In the corner of the laundry room we found a display of MCD Innovations shades, with business cards of a local mobile installer.

Rick and Bev came over to tour our new home, which we are happy to show off. Bev especially liked the shades, which certainly beat the pleated kind hands down. After lunch I went out to get a haircut and do some shopping. While I was gone, Ron and Margie stopped by and Ken showed them around.

Dancing this evening started at 7:30 p.m. with half an hour of C-1 called by Romney. We went over to the ballroom a few minutes early to see who was there and say hi. We saw several couples we know, including Barry and Laurie and Marshall and Myra. They dance to Romney in the San Fernando Valley. Les and Carol were there from San Diego. We danced with Paul and Dalya--we haven't seen them since February 2009 in Mesa. From the Rogues we saw Mike and Jan Taylor and Bob and Judy Cheek and Barbara Jones.

Romney plunged us right into non-stop C-1. We realized that after two months away from dancing, we've managed to get a bit rusty, especially on the C-1. I guess we got complacent and didn't review the calls, so we felt a bit embarrassed. We'll have to do some catch up studying before C-1 starts again tomorrow morning.

It's much cooler here, especially when the wind is blowing. We put on heavier jackets for our walk tonight. It's a good thing we have a fireplace.