Weekend

Lots of good news:

1. IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!

2. One more day of class is done for my library degree. I have to drive to Farmville (2 hours away) 3 times during this class. Saturday I drove there for my second class and did two presentations. So it is good news that I have one less drive to that location, and two fewer presentations to have to think about!

3. Matt and I have found a contra dance location in Roanoke! :) We attended the dance last night, which was only about 5 miles from our house. The dance was held in a school gym. There were a nice amount of people in it - not too packed, but also not so sparse to make it not fun. The Mayor of Roanoke even stopped by. He confessed that he is a contra dancer (although, he didn't stay and dance) and gave a small speech about how he was happy to see contra dancing back in Roanoke again. Aside from the mayor, there was a wonderful mix of people - ranging from those who knew what they were doing and those who had never danced before. And everyone there seemed to just want to have fun and did not take the dance too seriously. The last dance of the night that we did was supposed to be a silly dance. We had four couples in a square and one extra person. The extra person chose one partner of each couple to go into the center, then they joined in the center. Then it was like musical chairs to see who could grab a partner (any partner) and get out of the center when the music stopped. I believe that Matt danced with two other women and about 5 other men during that time, and I too danced with everyone that he danced with. But this was the first time he had experienced this kind of dance and it was so much fun. We left the dance laughing so hard!

It has been a good weekend, and Matt is planning on posting about what he did while I was in class....