We've got Happy Feet!

Agnes and I spent the last three days in Miami Beach, taking part in the 36th annual Grand National Ballroom Dance Championships, and had a wonderful time. The weather was great, the quality of the competition was high, and the crowd was large and friendly...everything you could ask for in a ballroom competition.

We danced 14 times, and took first place in 13 of those heats: American Gold Waltz, Tango, Fox Trot, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Swing, and Bolero; International Silver Quickstep and Viennese Waltz; and International Bronze Rumba, Cha-Cha, Samba, and Paso Doble. We took second place in the International Bronze Waltz. In the picture above, I'm deleriously happy (and Agnes is shocked, yet proud) that I have just won the Top Student Award in the American Gold category.

If you haven't tried ballroom dancing, you don't know what you're missing. And if you're a ballroom dancer who hasn't tried competitive dancing, you're missing out on more fun and excitement than you ever dreamed was possible. My only regret is that I didn't start doing this 40 years ago.

We'll get back to some serious posts tomorrow...but for today, I just needed to crow a bit.

Have a great evening. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo