Good morning! I heard rain last night! a cool 72˚ this morning and it's only suppose to get to 85˚ with more scattered light rain.
Dancing was in the neighborhood grand ballroom with the crystal ball giving off moving flickers of light on the wooden dance floor. The CW Band had keyboard, guitar, violin, drums and a female and male singer. They played all the popular CW songs. I haven't dance this much since my wedding day. I could hear the beats of quick, quick slow, slow, on the country two-step songs and I think I only step on toes once or twice after turns. We tried one polka, or was it a waltz, with a made up dance but realized we still haven't covered that dance in class and might want to use those songs as "drinking songs".
Only soda was sold but BYOB is allowed so this was like most CW dances I went to in the past but with no cigarette smoke, pleasant. I did not see anyone drunk, but did see one person having trouble dancing but after closer observation realized she really did have a medical condition. The average age for Sun City is 73, I did see some guest that looked 30 and some older couples that looked 80 but I'm guessing the average age was 60-65.
Line dancing was in the during the band's break. We did not attempt it. Line dancing looked like fun and they do offer classes so that will be another class for us in the fall. I still don't know why during the cotton-eyed-joe yelling "********" makes people laugh.
These old people are good dancers and we saw all levels of dancers so we did not feel intimidated. We saw several other people from our beginners two-step dance class that were dancing the same level we were. One older couple almost flew around the dance floor and looked like ballroom dancers, they were good. There were about 300 people in attendance.
There is a Halloween Dance in October but all the ticket were sold. However a couple at our table, who also wanted to go, remembered seeing an add on the community bulletin board someone wanting to sell 4 of their tickets. We contacted the seller split the tickets and now we have scheduled another dance to attend - with costumes, oh my.
Today is a "New Experience" day as Pickle Ball lessons are on the agenda after a bike ride.
This retirement Disneyland is like being on a cruise ship with things to do limited only by how much you want to squeeze into a day.
As soon as I can find their tractor hide out everything will be complete. But that can be a winter job when the afternoon temps only get to 60˚ - haven't seen any with AC cabs like Rick's and Drew's.
Maybe in two years I can get Drew to move down with his tractor to share mowing the common areas. There are lots of single activities to meet people.
