Now Swing Your Partner Round and Round

Getting in touch with some Country roots...in the City? Who said it couldn't be done! There is always something to be found in San Francisco on a weekend evening and tonight was no exception. We have pretty much begun to rely on SFfuncheap.com for all our community activities. Meghan and I were looking online and discovered the Harvey Milk community center in The Castro was holding a "How to Homestead" night and square dancing. We decided to put on some boots and head on down for some homesteadin' fun. When we arrived, a short film selection was going on, including our personal favorite-Dandelion Wine. It was just plain bizarre. I'm all for artsy and indie films, but it was trying way to hard. This had us all thinking "what have we gotten ourselves into?" But, we stuck it out and were so glad we did. Square dancing began and the four of us (Corinna, Meghan, Barrett and I) took turns being dance partners, switching almost every dance. One dance required a group of five, so an awesome elderly man, Russ, joined our group and began doing a few jigs when it was his turn to be in the middle. Such an awesome experience to have a community experience with such a diverse group of people. This is one thing I think that I love about the city-how easy it is to just go to different events and be confident that others there will be just as (if not more) excited about it as you are. Barrett and I danced the last two dances together and had quite a few laughs at some of our worse mess-ups, like elbowing a woman in the stomach (all Barrett). Another great mistake was forgetting what to do when "promenade around the hall" was called. Whoops...we caused a few crashes. :) What a blast this was! We are definitely going again before we leave SF. Ye Ha!