June

Another Nursing Home Demo this time at Berry Bupa Nursing Home. We had a about 13 join us and for the first time Geoff & Kerry joined in with the demo, after the demo we went to Bomaderry Bowling club and enjoyed a nice hot chocolate with marshmallows, again thank you for giving up your time to help entertain the elderly.

There are no socials this month, so we can have a weekend or two to relax before we take a trip to sunny Mooloolaba in Queensland. We are soooo looking forward to having this holiday for 8 days in a high rise overlooking the beach, hope the weather is good.

We intend to do a couple of theme parks Movie World and The Outback and just relax for the other days. Looking forward to catching up with our friend Val who now lives in Maryborough. Can't wait not long now.

Grandchildren Down for Mother's Day

May we had our daughter Leanne and Grandchildren Maddy & Jessie down for 3 weeks all the way from Brisbane. They last visited us in February, this year has flown by so fast.

Maddy has a great personality, at 2years 4months she is very independant and knows what she wants and gets very upset when that doesn't happen. She eats & drinks everything I have, she even comes into the toilet, shower and helps to hang out the washing and helps bring it in.

I did apoligize to my classes as I haven't been able to learn any new dances this month, so I only taught older dances because I couldn't concentrate with Maddison around my legs.

Jessie is a beautiful boy 6 months old, lay him on the floor and he falls asleep no problems, hardly cries unless he his hungry and always has a smile for you, what a precious boy.

We had a lovely Mother's Day together with 4 generations having a day out, 90 year old Great Grandmother, myself, Leanne & Maddy. Very special day.

Unfortunately the family had to go back to Queensland at the end of May, Maddy was missing her dad by now and was very excited to see him at the airport.

May Madness

Dinner & Show at the St Georges Basin Country Club

Brian Cadd and Glenn Shorrock were on at the St Georges Basin Country Club on the 2nd May, what a brilliant show, they sound just like they did back when I was a teenager, Brian is now 73, Glenn is 71, about 16 of our group of dancers went along for a night out at the restaurant then the show, thanks for coming along to make a fun night everyone.

Kiama Walk

Jenny Landsberry, Geoff, Muriel, Judy and myself went for a walk along the shore line of South Kiama to Gerringong, this is a 6 kilometre walk, up and down large hills on grassy paddocks, we managed to do 3 kilometres then had to walk back, again perfect weather.

Geoff decided to walk all the way to Gerringong, when we all arrived there we decided to have lunch over looking the spectacular view of Werri Beach. A great day was had by all and another good soak in the bath tub to help those aching muscles.

Line Dancing Demo's

This year there has been lots of demo's for Nursing Homes and Adult Centres. We have had a number of dancers giving up their time to give a bit of pleasure to the elderly.

The East Nowra Adult Centre invited us to entertain, we had the elderly clapping and toe tapping the whole time, thanks to all the ladies that came along.

Coastal Waters Nursing Home is always asking us to entertain the elderly, this time we had a couple of beginners Geoff & Kathy Beesley joining our group, Geoff's mum Isabella is a resident at the nursing home and she was delighted to see him dancing and showcasing his new moves, well done Geoff & Kathy

Birthday Bash and Trip to Sydney

On the 26th April, we organised a Birthday Bash for Rob (husband) and Muriel with our good friends coming along to celebrate their special day. Rob certainly had a few unusual presents and Muriel had wine, chocolates and jewellery.

We had a huge cake decorated with chocolate & strawberry's (yumm yumm) which was so delicious,  and a great job done on the BBQ thanks Rob alway well cooked.

On the 29th April, Sonja, Muriel and myself took a trip to Sydney for a day shopping and walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time in my life.

The month before I enjoyed a lovely birthday present from Leanne & Mark & Rob to climb the bridge which was spectacular.

Sonja, Muriel & Me

We had the most perfect weather for our day trip, we must have scaled many steps around the rocks area and walked around the streets of Sydney until we found a few shops, but we did run out of time to see everything, so we will have to make another trip a bit later in the year. Sounds good to me.

We left home about 6 in the morning and arrived back home about 9.30pm, we were absolutely exhausted by the time we got back home, a good soak in the bath helped the aching muscles.

Can't wait to do it all again, I had a ball, thanks girls.

Great shot on the Pilon of Sydney Harbour Bridge looking over the Opera House

Bomaderry Social 12th April

What a great afternoon of dancing with everyone wearing Black & White with plenty of bling, lots of dances with a great mix of old & new, easy & hard. 
Bomaderry Community Hall would have to be one of the best dance floors in the Shoalhaven Area.
Thanks to everyone that attended the social from Sussex Inlet, Milton, Dapto & Sydney also a few from the Southern Highlands area. 

Lorraine, Muriel, Judy, Angela, Rhonda & Rob 

Kathy & Janet

Robyn & Friend from Dapto

Maureen, Faye & Jenny from Sussex Inlet

Everyone concentrating on their moves

Berry Demo

On the 15th April, a group of our ladies from Sanctuary Point, Bomaderry and Sussex Inlet classes went to Berry Sports & Recreation Centre to do a line dance demo for Canteen (Kids with Cancer). The teenagers were on a five day camp to have a change from the life they have with family or hospitals that deal with cancer.

Happy People

The teenagers also took part in learning a few line dances, that they did very well. The theme as you can see was "Wild West", we were also asked to do Nutbush City Limits which was a bit of fun, some like to do their own style of dancing but that was ok because they were having fun.

All the teenagers that took part in learning a few dances.

Thank you to all the ladies that gave up their time to come along & make it an extra special night with all the kids.

The girls gave up their time for this demo.

Homebush 2014

Once again we are off to Homebush Social, always a great time and raising money for Ronald McDonald House for a special fund raiser.

Rose & Gina enjoying the break 

 The program was a good mix of old and new dances, with split floors for majority of the dances. So no one sits down unless the old legs say enough is enough (but we don't listen to them do we) We rest the next day.

Lola & Maureen relaxing while they can.

Few of our beginners have come along for the first time and were blown away by the amount of line dancers, 800 in total all in one place. They challenged themselves by trying out new dances they had never seen before. Well done guys not many people will try that, I'm impressed.

Geoff, Brenda, Geoff, Kathy at the Homebush Social for the first time
except for Brenda who goes every year.

We all had such a good time, with myself winning a prize in the raffle. We will look forward to next year's social

Waiting for the bus, Brenda, Laurel, Sonja, Collette

Coastal Waters Nursing Home Demo

The Shoalhaven Country Line Dancers did a demo at Coastal Waters Nursing Home

We had all the ladies & men clapping and singing along to some old favourite songs

I'm sure this gives a lot of pleasure to these people, they usually come to us at the end and tell us how much they enjoyed it. 

Thanks girls for volunteering your time for that Saturday morning.

March

Just before our climb

I was given a lovely present from my family for the Harbour Bridge Climb, we had the perfect day not too hot and not too cold.

My son Mark came with me as Leanne had her to look after her children and Rob my husband
(Big woose) wouldn't do the climb. But he was happy taking the photos.

great view of the Opera House

Madison & Leanne and that's Mark & I heading towards the
 middle of the bridge, we look like ants.

Our line dancers had another social this month, this was at Batemans Bay, this was well attended and we had a ball. Jenny & Maureen from Sussex Inlet and Carol from Sanctuary Point came along with me for another fund raiser again Relay for Life, it is great to see so many groups raising money for charity.

We also enjoyed more retail therapy, it's so good for the soul.

Glad to see you Jo & Dave Lake from Batemans Bay Line Dancers, hopefully we will get more of our line dancers to come down next time.

The Homebush Ball is coming up this weekend, there will be 17 of us going along dressed in national colours or costume of our ancesters, should be interesting one of our girls is dutch, windmills, clogs (the mind is ticking over) my mother is Scottish so I'm going to wear some tartan leggings, it was too hard to find a kilt. All the others will probably come in Red,White and Blue or Yellow & Green. (Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie Oy Oy Oy)

February

Well where did February go, I had the grandchildren down for a month and I'm only just getting back into the swing of things. It was wonderful having them with me, Madison has such a cute personality and little Jesse always has a smile to give to his Nanna. They are so precious, not sure when we will see them again but Skype comes in handy.

Our group had 1 social to go to in February at Huskisson to raise money for Relay for Life, this was well attended with a great mix of dances.

Me, Madison & Rob

I had my 60th birthday with my family and friends, Jenny and the girls from Sussex help to decorate the cake and also stuck balloons all over the hall. It was a lovely night with a bit of dancing after we had our meals

Karen with little Jesse, he looks comfy

Action shot of my friends

Thanks to everyone that came along to make it a fantastic night and all the lovely gifts I received I will cherish this time forever.

We also managed to take a bus trip to Shellharbour with Shoalhaven Country Line Dancers and their friends or families, that came along to have a bit of retail therapy. Always works a treat.