dance more

After two salsa classes, we’re really getting into it, and we show anyone who will sit still long enough, out of courtesy, paralysis, or inertia, our cool moves. I really feel like, at the end of this class, we would be able to go to a salsa club and dance with strangers and be ok. We practice a lot at home. Our kids are sick of us, too, but we sit through their living room shows, they can sit through ours, ha ha ha!

We went to salsa class last night, and didn’t stink up the place!! The ratio of women:men is about 3:1, so we all rotated, and a bunch of random women danced with my husband, which is really kind of cool, because we’re both more nervous when we’re dancing with each other, and it was cool to watch him relax a little with strangers, and the he is the world’s nicest guy, so while some of the other guys in the class were either bossy little jerks, or guys clearly only there to pick up women, any woman who danced with Husband had a friendly, funny dance partner who twirled them around and made them feel 1/10 as good as he makes me feel every day. It was cool. Anyway, we’ve practiced like 3 times just since last night, and we’re doing all right! I think at the end of the class, we’ll be able to go out to a club and do some serious salsa!

Our salsa classes start next week! I’m really excited about it. It should be fun, maybe a little bit of exercise, and a chance to meet new people.

We went to a nightclub last month when my sister was in town, that’s probably the first time we’ve danced, not counting slow-dancing at weddings and banquets and big parties. Anyway, it was a lot of fun, even though we’re not really into big loud smoky noisy clubs. We’re going to try salsa dancing, so that should be fun!