I had a great day, being the last day of the convention. It started with some accidental shopping as I passed through the stalls while roaming between halls. I met my gang at 12noon as agreed to take a group photo, then my gang went seperate ways to dance at different halls. I decided on the regular plus hall so I could save myself for the DBD (dancing by definition) hard Plus in the evening. There may have been more accidental shopping as I passed through the ...

A well earned sleep in this morning! I didn't get up until 11.30am! I met Graham & Lorraine for coffee at 12.30pm, before heading over to the DBD hall to try out some Hex squares. They did a bit of it yesterday and said it was really good. Hex being 6 couples instead of 4. So, I was originally just going to watch, since I really didn't even know what Hex was, but this guy insisted I get up with him, so I did. Luckily we were in a Hex of experienced Hex ...

Line dancing, DBD Plus (dancing by definition) and regular plus...all in a long day! It's pretty cool how you can just drift from hall to hall...whatever takes your fancy! We met at 9.45am in the lobby, ready to head over to the hall to check out the stalls which were opening at 10am. There was lots of people waiting at the doors...almost like the boxing day sales! I bought a couple of t-shirts with square dance logos on them and some earrings. Then we head...

I finally danced at the USA National Convention!!! Woohoo!! I had my continental breaky and then met the others in the lobby at 10am, with the plan to go and check out the stalls. When we got to the venue (which is only 2 blocks walk) we discovered the stalls aren't open until tomorrow. We picked up our registration packs and then spent the afternoon wandering the streets of Springfield, which is not very big. We checked out some sculptures in the local "muse...

Flying over to Massachusetts today!! Convention time!! I had told my host Andrea that I would leave around 8am for the half hour uber to the airport for my 10am flight. She offered to drive me! Such a sweet lady! So we left around 7.45am and lucky we did because there was so much traffic. At one stage I said "I wonder where everyone is going" and she said "um, work!". Oh of course, silly me, I forgot people still did that... Made it in plenty of time though and...