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Summer fun!

Saturday the girl and I decided to take a jaunt over to Disneyland for the sole purpose of Dancing. For those who do not know, every Saturday night in Disneyland at the Carnation Gardens they have a live swing band playing all the classic big band swing hits. We will come back to this later.

The reason for the photo is, when we got to the resort, the girl had not seen Aladin and hearing that it's days were nearing an end and we had some time to kill before the band started playing I would take her to the show. While queing for the show this very nicely kimono attired cupple passed by in the next section of the queue at which point I snaped this picture. The girl and I were determined that after the show we would go up to them and ask if we could get a picture of/with them. Wouldn't you know it when the show let out they were long gone. Oh well... Sill having some time we went to my favorite Disneyland Resort restraunt Tortillia Jo's, ate our food, went to the car to get our dance shoes and night attire and headed to Disneyland park. As we approached the turnstiles to our suprise was the same Japanese couple that we had seen earlier just entering the gate. We rushed right in and got our pictures with them, had a nice little chat and had a warm international feeling afterward. I just wish to say a thank you to them for just being so cool!

Back to the dancing. The saturday night swing dancing has been a staple of Disneyland since 1955. All sorts come to dance here, everything from turists that know how to dance (or not) to regulars that come every Saturday. Some of the regulars even come in full attire of the time. Zuit Suited and all. If at Disneyland on a Saturday night take 30 minuets and watch a set, it is great fun. The girl and I had a great time dancing, even though we were the only two east coat swingers there, everybody else was west coast swing we did pick up some good moves but nothing beats a good series of arch turns into sneeky peet and a skin or to back in to a closed posisition or a cuddle. :-) As a side we also felt that a waltz was needed just for fun measure, even though we were dancing it after the music had ended and everyone was leaving. Cinderelia and Prince Charming had nothing on the two of us!