Dance crazy

So many of you know how much I love dancing - I've done some crazy things in my life time for the sake of dancing including agreeing to partner with someone in Lindy aerials at the VSO without ever having met the person. Boy was it a mistake - still he paid for the workshops so I guess I can't complaint. That was a few years back - you would think I have learn to be more prudent about my dancing and pace myself accordingly - NOT.

Last year was a crazy year for me, between work and dance - I must have travelled at least once every month if not twice a month. It got to the point where everyone is always asking where have I been. I was so exhausted from the travel, my new year resolution was to not travel anymore for the rest of the year (outside of my asia trip in october). Was I able to follow my resolution? Didn't even last two months. Near the end of February - I travel to San Francisco for a weekend salsa trip and then two weeks later, a trip to LA for a cruise. Now if that's not insane I don't know what is - especially since its on the other side of the country.

I need to pick my trips better so I'm not always recovering from jet lag. Still, I have no regrets on going on this latest trip to Ensenada , Mexico on a four day cruise leaving from LA. Even though it is my least favorite cruise line - I still had a blast. It helps not to have too much expectation when it comes to the accommodations. The people I met were all very nice and all loved blues dancing as much if not more than me. I met some really interesting people from a serious dead ringer for Jenna Elfman to a guy who works on the production of modern family. Guess it helps the trip started in LA. We played musical chair for our dinner meal and ended up sitting at a different table each evening with different folks from the group. It was a fabulous way to meet the other folks in the group.

There were many awesome leads and I was able to pick up on a couple of dip moves that I was not familiar with - majority of the dancers were very good and it made the evening dances amazing. The only detractor was the weather, while friday was okay - I was actually in my winter coat for two of the nights. Some how my brain thought the weather was going to be in the 80's - NOT. I definitely had not packed properly for the trip.

It was crazy cold both in the morning and in the evenings. I did however brave the 40 degree weather in the morning to jump in the hot tub at 8 am each morning to soak away the aches from the night before and also to enjoy the relaxation of no one else being there.  That was sublime... now if only the cruise was to the bahamas in warmer weather.....:-) While I'm not sure I would do it again - I am glad I did do it because I met so many interesting people and so many other styles of blues dancing I hadn't done before....it definitely kept it interesting.

Now - what fun trip should I plan next? Since I've given up on the new year resolution - there are two events I really want to try - cube in june over in cold Chicago and austin blues party in july in Texas....so the question now is should I or shouldn't I??? Guess I have a few months to decide.