Cleveland, Day #3 (Saturday)
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bjarvisGiving away our zoo tour/scavenger hunt tickets turned out to be a supremely good idea: since we didn't get to sleeping until around 4 AM, crawling out of bed in time to be at the zoo by 10 just wasn't in the cards. For that matter, even getting ourselves to lunch by 2 PM was a slow moving ordeal.
As a consequence, we missed the square dance workshops scheduled for the afternoon. I was kinda hoping to attend, but the general inertia of our merry mob o' men was far too much for me to push, even in a hyper-caffeinated state.
It's become something of a tradition for our group to have dinner at a particular Mexican restaurant (Zappata's?... I can give you directions but not the name) on Saturday night. In all, we had twelve people attending, including special guests Barry & Pam Clasper. Dale and Kent managed to finish off a pitcher of tequila margaritas, with some assistance by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
apparentparadox; the other end of the table made short work of a pitcher of margaritas as well, but being a non-drinker, the precise mixture escaped my knowledge/interest. Barry joked about having the margaritas when calling on stage a couple of hours later when our squares slipped into an unexpected formation.
The evening dancing was quite fine. I haven't danced a great deal of A1/A2 in a long time so I was delighted to get in some floor time, as well as blow some money harmlessly on 50/50 tickets and misc raffles. The only low point of the night was the embarrassingly bad drag performance as a lead up to the costume contest: it was so horrendously awful I pulled out my Palm to catch up on headlines from the New York Times rather than suffer further. Dancing afterward rescued the evening, but only barely.
After cleaning up the hall and closing down for the night, the usual suspects reconvened at Casa Nick for snacks and cocktails. Alas, we're not getting any younger and half of us were clearly fading by midnight. A few stalwarts (myself included) managed to remain conscious and talking until 2, but eventually sleep beckoned.
As a consequence, we missed the square dance workshops scheduled for the afternoon. I was kinda hoping to attend, but the general inertia of our merry mob o' men was far too much for me to push, even in a hyper-caffeinated state.
It's become something of a tradition for our group to have dinner at a particular Mexican restaurant (Zappata's?... I can give you directions but not the name) on Saturday night. In all, we had twelve people attending, including special guests Barry & Pam Clasper. Dale and Kent managed to finish off a pitcher of tequila margaritas, with some assistance by
apparentparadox; the other end of the table made short work of a pitcher of margaritas as well, but being a non-drinker, the precise mixture escaped my knowledge/interest. Barry joked about having the margaritas when calling on stage a couple of hours later when our squares slipped into an unexpected formation.The evening dancing was quite fine. I haven't danced a great deal of A1/A2 in a long time so I was delighted to get in some floor time, as well as blow some money harmlessly on 50/50 tickets and misc raffles. The only low point of the night was the embarrassingly bad drag performance as a lead up to the costume contest: it was so horrendously awful I pulled out my Palm to catch up on headlines from the New York Times rather than suffer further. Dancing afterward rescued the evening, but only barely.
After cleaning up the hall and closing down for the night, the usual suspects reconvened at Casa Nick for snacks and cocktails. Alas, we're not getting any younger and half of us were clearly fading by midnight. A few stalwarts (myself included) managed to remain conscious and talking until 2, but eventually sleep beckoned.
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Date: 2005-10-11 07:36 pm (UTC)Why, that was Margarita formation, wasn't it? It's sort of like an asymmetrical wave-diamond-parallelogram. And there are two versions, one without salt and one with. ;-)
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Date: 2005-10-11 10:15 pm (UTC)My side of the table was working on Strawberry Margaritas. I wanted to chat with you all & happened to be holding an empty glass. What else could I do?
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Date: 2005-10-12 12:41 am (UTC)