Dancing the Tango!

I’m working on a special blog with my take on the MPAA and RIAA enforcement actions against P2P users who blatantly violate copyrights, but I have to get a lot of attributions done before I feel like it’s "ready". So I’ll blog about Ballroom Dancing.

Christy and I arranged a date tonight. We’ve been pretty good about making sure we have a date every single week for the last few years; it’s a tradition I really enjoy. Lately we’ve been looking for more interesting things to do than the traditional dinner or movie thing. Last week Christy suggested we go dancing, so I said let’s do it this week. We did it.

We went to the Midvale Somethingorother. They have two buildings, one with a really big dance floor, the other with a smaller one. We showed up at 7:21, in time for the 7:30 lessons. It costs $6 to get into the dance, and an extra $1 if you take the lesson. Great deal. Tonight they spent an hour teaching us a half-dozen Tango moves. Tango is pretty cool. Although you can Tango with someone you’re not married to, you’re close enough that you really probably should know and trust one another very much before attempting it 🙂 The instructor was, apparently, impressed enough with our basic dance ability that he repeatedly suggested to us that we attend his lessons. I suspect, however, that it’s a pretty standard sales pitch line. I mean, at a buck a student, even with the 30-odd people there they are not exactly making a whole lot of bank, you know?

Following the Tango lessons were two-step lessons in the other ballroom. These were quite forgettable, but still fun basic steps that really improved our dancing ability and taught us a few new things about leading. Shortly after the lessons ended, at which point we’d been there about two hours, we went back to the ballroom dance room, danced to “Unchained Melody” performed by a one-man band, then decided to go snag some food and head home.

Taco Time. Fear it. I had the Veggie Burrito, and I can tell I’ll be paying for it in gas all night long…

Anyway, if you have a significant other, I heartily recommend taking him/her dancing with you. Go to the lessons if they have them (most do), and you just may love it.