Friday, April 17, 2009

This weekend in Durango, they are having the annual Meltdown . . . it is a bluegrass festival.  Rosemary asked if I wanted to attend a free bluegrass concert at the train station.  We met Kathleen there.  The band was awesome!  They were really great, and they were local boys . . . from Durango.  I only stayed for forty-five minutes, though, because I couldn't miss my square dance!

Tonight's dance was a regional dance.  People came from Cortez, Pagosa Springs, and Farmington.  There are some people from those places during our regular weekly dances, but many more tonight.  I thought maybe I could meet someone . . . but, unfortunately, all those from out of town already have a partner!  There are only a couple available guys that I can dance with.  Once, Wilma, found me a partner.  For the next "tip," I had to reserve Louis in advance!  And then for the next one, I saw Les standing up there, and I RAN up to him before anyone else could catch him!

On the tip that I danced with Louis, he got me into a square with three callers.  If you square dance in a square with three callers, then you earn a "purple heart," which is worn on your name tag.  It's kind of a big deal, and not everyone has one.  So, as soon as I get my name tag, I should receive a purple heart.  

But, I have to tell you, these guys are crazy!  For one of the dances, one of them, a male, partnered with another man . . . and a woman partnered with another woman.  It makes it so hard to follow!  When I get lost, I normally look for the woman across from me . . . and it was a man!  During the dance, we often switch partners as part of the calls.  And one time, the woman who was pretending to be a man, and the man who was pretending to be a woman, got partnered up!  Now THAT was confusing!  But, it was so funny . . . I had a stomach-ache by the time the dance finished from laughing so hard!