Sashay Thru The Woods, Day 2

Saturday started sluggishly. I hate mornings. There were, however, workshops I wished to attend and sad tradition has it that workshops are scheduled for mornings. Yay team.

( Bill's A2 workshop )

( General dancing )

( Dinner )

( Evening Dancing )

Sashay Thru The Woods, Day 2

Saturday started sluggishly. I hate mornings. There were, however, workshops I wished to attend and sad tradition has it that workshops are scheduled for mornings. Yay team.

( Bill's A2 workshop )

( General dancing )

( Dinner )

( Evening Dancing )

Sashay Thru The Woods, Day 3

Another morning. Ugh. Mornings when one must check out of the hotel are the worst: there is no possibility of blowing off events to sleep in. And we lost an hour of sleep due to daylight savings. And worse yet, I was complicit in the pain of arising before noon by agreeing to meet with a couple of dancers from Atlanta to discuss their club's potential bid for an IAGSDC convention.

Did I mention I hate mornings?

Since we hadn't nailed down precisely when to meet with the Atlanta guys, kent4str & I were down at the brunch terrace for 9 AM. At least getting a table and filling our plates at the buffet was very easy and we could dine at a somewhat relaxed pace. By 10:30, however, the Atlanta boys still hadn't appeared so kent4str & I wandered over to Anne Uebelacker's Advanced hall for a while, danced a while, took some photos and chatted with various people. On our way back to our room to pack & check out, we found our Atlanta boys at brunch so we paused to discuss their bid.

( Atlanta's bid thus far )

( Checking out & heading home )

Sashay Thru The Woods, Day 3

Another morning. Ugh. Mornings when one must check out of the hotel are the worst: there is no possibility of blowing off events to sleep in. And we lost an hour of sleep due to daylight savings. And worse yet, I was complicit in the pain of arising before noon by agreeing to meet with a couple of dancers from Atlanta to discuss their club's potential bid for an IAGSDC convention.

Did I mention I hate mornings?

Since we hadn't nailed down precisely when to meet with the Atlanta guys, kent4str & I were down at the brunch terrace for 9 AM. At least getting a table and filling our plates at the buffet was very easy and we could dine at a somewhat relaxed pace. By 10:30, however, the Atlanta boys still hadn't appeared so kent4str & I wandered over to Anne Uebelacker's Advanced hall for a while, danced a while, took some photos and chatted with various people. On our way back to our room to pack & check out, we found our Atlanta boys at brunch so we paused to discuss their bid.

( Atlanta's bid thus far )

( Checking out & heading home )

Tragedy!

We discovered last night when we returned home that our housekeeping service is likely tossing in the towel. Apparently, Kevin has had a lot of difficulty retaining staff and I think he's tired of dealing with the problem.

With a little luck, he take a break to find the energy to persevere, but there's a strong possibility that we'll need a new housekeeping service. I hate changing this kind of service... it takes a long while for me to build up enough trust to allow someone essentially unrestricted access to our home, yet we can't afford to be there for supervision either. The alternative is simply to vacuum our own floors, scrub our own bathtubs, dust our own stuff, etc.; while the savings of $$$ is appealing, the scrubbing of bathtubs is not.

Oh, my sad life is so full of trauma. Woe is me (esp. since Kent will not scrub bathtubs).

Tragedy!

We discovered last night when we returned home that our housekeeping service is likely tossing in the towel. Apparently, Kevin has had a lot of difficulty retaining staff and I think he's tired of dealing with the problem.

With a little luck, he take a break to find the energy to persevere, but there's a strong possibility that we'll need a new housekeeping service. I hate changing this kind of service... it takes a long while for me to build up enough trust to allow someone essentially unrestricted access to our home, yet we can't afford to be there for supervision either. The alternative is simply to vacuum our own floors, scrub our own bathtubs, dust our own stuff, etc.; while the savings of $$$ is appealing, the scrubbing of bathtubs is not.

Oh, my sad life is so full of trauma. Woe is me (esp. since Kent will not scrub bathtubs).

Use an ice pick to extract the prior visual and substitute this one...

bjarvis & zzbear Philadelphia square dance fly-in, 2006-4-1 In lieu of the god-awful photo of me with zzbear here and here, I offer this vastly superior and humane photo.

Use an ice pick to extract the prior visual and substitute this one...

bjarvis & zzbear Philadelphia square dance fly-in, 2006-4-1 In lieu of the god-awful photo of me with zzbear here and here, I offer this vastly superior and humane photo.

Sashay Thru The Woods Photos

I've updated my web site with photos taken during the recent fly-in hosted by the Independence Squares of Philadelphia, PA. Click here to see the latest!

Sashay Thru The Woods Photos

I've updated my web site with photos taken during the recent fly-in hosted by the Independence Squares of Philadelphia, PA. Click here to see the latest!