Amazing Day!!!!

Blackpool Comp was amazing - the venue was the Tower Ballroom - which is like the mecca of ballroom dancing here.



The day was the usual mix of waiting around and frantic activity - but with plenty of great company and lots of lovely dances to be had - the waiting around wasn't so bad :)

It was great to see friends from all over the country side and put more faces to forumite names.

CJ & I both entered Lucky Dip & Advanced. I had fun in Lucky Dip but didn't make it past the first heat - CJ however was blessed by the gods of dancing with the divine Miss Yuko as his partner and made it all the way through to the Finals and placing 3rd a fabulous achievement!!!



Unfortunately we didn't do so well in Advanced - didn't make it passed our heat - but we were happy with how we danced and most importantly we didn't fall over. We got some lovely compliments on both our dancing and our costumes. To be honest the music for our heat was rather odd compared to the other Advanced heats - and no couple from our heat went through to the next round which really surprised me as there were some impressive couples in our heat.

Despite being rather ill I held up fairly well until we had a fire drill - in which we evacuated the building in record time - but the standing around outside didn't do me any favours and once we were allowed back inside there was only time for a few dances before it was time for presentations - by the time that was all over - well i was done in and headed home early - which was a shame - but with an early start on the Sunday well it was all for the best.

Photos @ Kodak

As long as I don't fall over

Well the past few weeks have been pretty busy. Since agreeing to do the Blackpool comps with CJ at southport have been busy practising with him when he's been down this way - he lives near Edinburgh which is about an 8-9 hour drive away from Reading. So it's it tends to be very packed weekends.

It has been great to working on my dancing again with some focus and CJ is a fabulous partner to work with - pushing me to extend myself and giving me the safe space to do so.

And there have been all the other comp prep things to go through costumes - with the added twist in this case that CJ only wears kilts, accomodation, transport, entries and so on.

And now it's all only a few days away and I'm terrified and excited - although mostly terrified but I just keep reminding myself

"As long as I don't fall over it's all good"