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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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The trip began with a 6:30 am flight to DC followed by a metro ride and short walking trek to meet Margie and Dwayne near their hotel.

There was a definite chill in the air in DC but nothing a drive to Rehoboth couldn't cure. With Margie driving we made it to the coast in just a couple of hours although their GPS tried to get us there by way of Canada.

Once in Rehoboth we went in search of Linner which ended up being fish & chips, beer followed by hot chocolate .

After that it was time for a short nap and a bit of blogging before the first ceili.

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We had a fun session this past Sunday at Lochrann's. There was a good bit of dancing including sets and a two-hand hornpipe as well as a bit of stepping about to music by the Needfire bagpiper.

The next session is Nov 16th, come on out!

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I had a good time in Phoenix on Friday night.

Finally, I was in town on a night when there would be a ceili at the Irish Cultural Center.

The people were friendly, the music was good and there was a good solid two hours of fior ceili. Just wish Susan had been here with me.

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It was a driving and dancing weekend last weekend for Susan and myself and a bunch o people up in Oklahoma.

We drove up to outside Oklahoma city on Saturday morning to give a set and ceili dance workshop. It was held in a cummunity center which had some serious personality. It was unfortunately un air-conditioned but everyone had a good sweaty time.

There was a good size dance floor which for the evening we were able to fill but for the first part of the day we had a set of people out for a bit of Clare Lancers, Haymakers Jig and Sliabh Luachra.

The 2007/2008 season is now over and the final ceili was a bunch o fun.

We had slightly more than three sets worth and ran through the South Galway Half Set,

as well as a back to back hornpipe we learned from Pat Murphy, most of the Cashel Set, Three Tunes and closed with the Siege of Ennis.

Click on the picture for some more.

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On Friday night Susan and I called a small ceili for the Wingard family gathering.

We did a bunch of ceili dances and got the family leaping about for a Friday night.

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