May

To start May off, a demo was done at the Lady Denman Markets on the 7th May. About 17 ladies turned out for this demo, although it was a little dissapointing that there was not a lot of people at the markets, but that's life, we enjoyed it anyway. Thank you to all the ladies who joined us for this demo.
Collette joined us for her first open air demo, she was a bit nervous but she did very well.

The following weekend the 14th was a Rock & Roll Demo at Jervis Bay Market Day, with about 8 couples dancing to show off their skills that they have been learning over the last 2years or more. This was in the school hall, it's good to dance on a good floor for a change.

The next function I will be attending is Canberra Social on the 28th May, I go to this social every year, we learn new dances and have a great time catching up with all the friends we haven't seen for a while. I will fill you in with all the details when I get back.
Laurel

Easter Parade

Easter has come and gone, boy the year is going so fast.!!!!!!!
We started of the day with a parade down the main street of Huskisson. The truck never showed up, so
plan B was put into action. We had two cars Rob's station wagon was decorated with our banner & cute little teddy bears, Rhonda's husband's car was next, with lots of cut out cows & chickens, tree branches and two of our ladies Ruth & Yvonne in the back of the ute throwing easter eggs to the crowd.

About 22 line dancers walked behind the ute, whenever the parade stopped we did "Bootscootin Boogie" as a bit of a showcase for the crowd.
Walking behind us was the Shoalhaven Rock & Rollers, again, whenever the parade stopped they danced to the music we had playing.
The weather stayed perfect for the day, it was looking a bit dicey in the morning but the clouds dissipated after a while to a beautiful day.
We had a demo in the park after the parade, then the Rock & Rollers performed, then our group joined them to do Stray Cat Strut.
Every weekend in April was filled with functions to attend, hopefully May will be a little bit quieter.

Happy Birthday to Margaret Lee

On the 9th April we had a celebration for Margaret who turned !!!!!!!!!!! Another milestone acheived. We had a great time, the party was held by the Shoalhaven River in an old barn with heaps of character. The weather was perfect not to hot & not to cold.
Some of the girls had to dance!!!! Once the music was on they cannot help themselves. You can view a slide show with more photos of this day, click on the links page or if you click on my photo, top right hand side this will lead you to our line dancing website.

We had to leave the party early as we were the opening act (Thriller) for the staff function at the St Georges Basin Country Club.
This turned out to be a fantastic night, with plenty of entertainment. It was a family affair with the Sirenics(Simon & Serenity), D'BanJac(Debbie & Jacii) my nephew & niece singing some lovely songs, my husband Rob was also stage manager for the night, running around in circles as he had never done this before, but Simon was proud of his achievment. Garry James also dragged out his trumpet which had been in the closet for many years and produced a great sound, he still hadn't lost his touch.

Milton Social

Late notice, the Milton Bootscooters are having a social on Saturday 16th April. This will be good for beginners to attend because it was Bev's Beginners who have been asking for a social.
The Theme is "Cows". I'm not sure what to wear for this, I don't have a cow outfit, but I might just wear something with the colour of cows.
Money raised from this social goes to the Cancer Council. Check out the Diary on the right hand side of this site for more information. Always a good time at these socials.

My Milk Maid outfit finally came out of the closet after 8 years
From Left: Lorraine, Rhonda, Me, Angela & Cheryl enjoying the afternoon.

Happy Raffle Winners, Marianne & Sonya our newest dancers this year.
This is Sonya's second social for the year.

What a happy lot!!!! From Left: Judy, Marianne, Sonya, Robyn, Carol(President) & Collette with her cow.

More happy raffle winners.
From Left: Me, Lorraine, Marianne & Rhonda

Laurel

SHOALHAVEN HEADS DINNER NIGHT

Thursday night 7th April, this dinner was a farewell to Sue. Sue will be travelling around Australia with her husband for quite a few months, she may be back before xmas. Hope you have a safe & wonderful holiday (wish it was me travelling around). I'm sure you will be thinking of us dancing on Monday nights now that you have your music to listen to whilst travelling, so now you can practice the dances, so you don't forget them. We had about 18 ladies turn up to have a meal at the Bomaderry Bowling club for a beautiful meal. We will have to do this more often, a lovely night.

Shoalhaven Heads Class

Jan, Jill, & Carol

Barbara, Helen, Rhona, Laurel

Betty & Sue

Stephanie & Joan

Betty, Janet, Kathy



HOMEBUSH BALL

On the 2nd April, we headed off to the Homebush ball held at the Sports Stadium. The bus had pick up points starting from Ulladulla, Sussex Inlet, South Nowra, Bomaderry, Berry & Albion Park. The Shoalhaven Country Line Dancers had 10 Ladies travelling to this annual event.
We had a great time and we found that with the split floors, we were hardly off the floor. One of our ladies Judy had never been before, but she enjoyed it, as she didn't think she knew many dances, but they always have a good mix of dances (Old & New, Easy & Hard) so she was on the floor for quite a few dances.

The social started at 5pm & went till 12pm, by the time we got back on the bus and headed off home, with a pit at Albion Park, it was about 3am when we arrived home.

Some people just can't hack the pace. Pauline catching a few zzz's before we danced



Jenny from Albion Park, Brenda from Crookwell, Judy from Vincentia.



 

 Elizabeth & Mona(90) dancing to Englebert Humperdinck's the Last Waltz 



Jenny, Lola, Rhonda, Angela



The Gang from SCLD, SussexInlet, Braidwood, Crookwell





April

Hi Everyone,
ALAN JACKSON
Another month gone by very fast. Not a lot happened in March except a fabulous concert with American Country Singer Alan Jackson. What a night, the Acer Arena was packed to the rafters (pardon the pun) literally.
The section in front of the stage was bombarded with admiring fans standing in front of those who paid top dollars to have a birds eye view of Alan, these people had to stand for the entire show. So I will never pay top dollar for front row seats.
The best seats are the elevated seats around the sides & back, you are further away but the Arena has huge screens so you don't really need binoculars (I took mine anyway).
Thanks again to Margret & Richard Pacitti who allowed us to stay at their house.

March

Into our third month already, how time flies. There doesn't seem to be a weekend go bye without somewhere to go. In February myself & 4 other ladies went to Sydney to see Michael Buble, what a great show he sang all my favourite songs, also at the end of the show he sang without a microphone & with 10,000 people listening intently, his voice carried around that arena, you could hear every word he sang, what a voice. Naturally 7 was the support act, they had no musical instruments just their voices, which sounded like they had musical instruments, brilliant sound.

Michael at his best

LeeAnne, Rhonda, Angela



Margret's Ladies & My Ladies looking forward to seeing Michael Buble



Our next social was at the Huskisson Bowling Club for a line dance social to raise money for Cancer Relay for Life. It was good to catch up with friends we haven't seen for a while & to celebrate my birthday, thank you ladies for the lovely cake & presents.
At the end of February, we headed off to Sussex Inlet for another fund raiser NRMA Careflight & social with Jenny Landsberry, always a fun social, thanks Jenny for a great night.
In March we are now heading back to Sydney for another night of great entertainment with American Country Singer Alan Jackson, we will be staying with Margret & Richard on Sunday night & they will take us to a club for some Rock & Roll & Line Dancing, then on the Monday go to Margret's line dance class, then later that night we will see Alan Jackson ,then on Tuesday off to Margret's class again for more dancing. Looking forward to this weekend.
Laurel

Coastal Waters Line Dancing

Just started teaching at Coastal Waters Retirement Village at Old Erowal Bay. The last 2 weeks, we have had a good roll up of ladies trying line dancing for the first time. I hope you all enjoyed the classes so far, there are many more line dances to learn that will keep you toe tapping for a long time.

Don't forget, if you have some friends or neighbours that might like to come along and listen to the music & socialize at no cost, they would be more than welcome. They will not be pressured into dancing.

I would like to thank Jan Harris who had sent out information seeking interest in the dance class to everyone who lives at the village. Also ladies ask the fellows to come too, they have plenty of time up their sleeves, so there is no excuse now. I'm sure they would be able to squeeze an hour of dancing in a week

If you keep on scrolling down my blog site, you will see there are a lot of activities we do throughout the year, hopefully you can join us with these fun times.

Once you have opened my blog site, just add it to your favourites, then when you open it up again to see what might be happening during the year, just hit the refresh button, to get the latest information.

See you all on Friday,
Regards Laurel

Dinner & Cruise Evening

Thanks Laurelle for the photos of our xmas social & the dinner, cruise evening

 I'm a bit worried about this photo, Rob looks like he is getting a bit carried away