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I have been suitably chastized by Jean and while Susan and I drink Jack and cokes here's what we did with Dwayne and Margie today.

This has been a seriously dance-filled day.

It started out with a workshop led by Padraig McEneany on the Antrim Square Set followed by the Aherlow Set, trailed by the Tory Island Set and part of the Sliabh gCua set. The first one is a very short, but very fun set that the people back home can look forward to learning soon.

At some point during the workshop someone out in the crowd had a senior moment as observed by Padraig but Susan said it sounded like someone had had a senior movement. We were both glad it turned out not to be the latter.

Between the workshops we wandered around a bit, took pictures of the taffy house and the Sea Witch Festival.

After a quick slice of pizza it was back to the afternoon workshop to finish out the sets.

We had time for Susan to run about town while I slept and then met Margie and Dwayne for dinner and then back to dancing!

I don't know how many sets we danced. Most of them because it seemed that most were ones we had done before or they were sets we'd learned that day. We both love it when someone calls a set because even with an unfamilar one we can figure most things out on the fly by listening to what's coming up.

We closed the evening by dragging our very tired legs upstairs and soothing them with some Jack and Coke.

Here's the last dancing picture for the day.

Once we'd sort of settled in back at the room, with the sound of the breakers on the beach, we were wandering through the TV channels looking for something that was worth watching. One does have to be careful about flipping through TV channels late at night though. You're likely to hear "What's the secret to moisturizing your hair?" click "Cleaning your nose."

Ewwwww.

On that note... Goodnight.

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It's relatively early in the morning given that we went to bed about 1am. I'm sure many other people stayed up later but we were done.

After a snack of pop-tarts which is a bit of a story in itself, we collapsed and woke up to this:

It doesn't look all that different from yesterday's picture but it's a wet windy morning. Perfect for staying inside and dancing all day.

First up is breakfast followed by a workshop with Padraig and Roisin followed by another workshop with Padraig and Roisin!

Oh, and a bite to eat in between.

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Wow.

I'll say it again.

Wow.

More details later but for now, rest.

I'll leave you with this though.

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Alright, I've procrastinated long enough. Here are the pictures from the last Lochrann's gathering.

We got kicked outside due to a stupid football game but the weather was on the cool side, we were in the shade and we ended up with more room than normal so it was a win-win situation.

We had seven musicians and enough dancers for a full set along with the requisite beers. It was a good dance afternoon.

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Had a good crop of musicians and dancers today. What were you doing?

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It was another good session at Lochrann's. Not too many of the CRG made it out but we did have me and Susan, Pam, Brandy and Billye so at least we had a half sets worth for a few set dances.

A bunch of people associated with the Shandon school made it out as well which helped to fill the far end of the pub with people twirling and leaping about.

We started off with a few set figures and then moved on the Walls of Limerick.

A few more set figures and Susan and I got up to teach the kids and a few adults the Waves of Tory. It was a bit of a disaster but fun just the same.

We also managed to drag a few of the Shandon adults through part of the Galway Half Set.

There was a bit of stepping about as well

while Bob and David played through the afternoon.

Click on the first picture for larger versions and a video of Walls.

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It's been nearly a week since the last session but work sent me out of town with no real time to write.

It was a fun session and we had enough for a full set so ran through bits of several including the Ballyvourney reel set and a bit of the Connemara.

Good craic. More pictures through the link.