All about weekends! [Archive]

Terremoto

05-22-2006, 04:21 PM

I just wanted to create a thread where people can talk about their weekends - what they are planning and what they actually did. And if you are someone who works during the weekend and your days off are during the week - feel free to post about you are planning to do on your days off.

My past weekend went really well. I went salsa dancing Thursday night, dragged myself into work on Friday, went dancing on Friday night, went mountain biking saturday during the day, went salsa dancing on saturday night and then sunday I spent most of my time hanging out at a friend's barbeque. The weatherman called for rain all weekend - but he was wrong :) It was sunny and beautiful all weekend up until around 7:30 sunday night!!

Tony_salvi

05-22-2006, 11:54 PM

Well this weekend I look forward to salsa dancing and putting together some of the things I learned in class during the week. I'll probably go to the beach with some friends and try and learn to surf Lol..Don't have the best balance so we'll see how that goes.

Hmm..Beach and dancing Salsa...now if only I could put those together. :D

Actually..two weeks ago they had a Salsa event at the Beach Pier..Not quite the same..but nice view and a great night.

SDsalsaguy

05-23-2006, 12:15 AM

This weekend I'll be in Blackpool, England, for the Blackpool Dance Festival doing photography and watching the best ballroom comp in the world... and the next weekend I'll be travelling back to San Diego! (Blackpool runs Friday-Friday)

Terremoto

05-23-2006, 12:42 AM

I'll probably go to the beach with some friends and try and learn to surf Lol..Don't have the best balance so we'll see how that goes.

Tony, not that this is a surfing forum, but . . .

Ask your friends to show you how to stand up on the board before you go. That is one of the more difficult aspects of learning how to ride when you are starting out. After they show you, you can practice before you go. That way, its one less thing for you to worry about. If you try and learn how to stand up the same day that they are teaching you everything else, it can be difficult, because there is a lot to learn, and when you're out on the waves and you see one coming you'll probably end up forgetting your form and just trying to stand up and then falling in the water - even if you have great balance you still need proper form in standing up.

Good luck - and post back on how it goes!!!

05-23-2006, 09:32 AM

Hmm..Beach and dancing Salsa...now if only I could put those together. :D
You can put Salsa and Surfing together here at Salsa forums! ;)

lolita

05-23-2006, 01:04 PM

You can put Salsa and Surfing together here at Salsa forums! ;)

True :D

I Gotta Study all week end..i hate exams :x

Tony_salvi

05-24-2006, 12:36 AM

Ask your friends to show you how to stand up on the board before you go. That is one of the more difficult aspects of learning how to ride when you are starting out. After they show you, you can practice before you go.

Hehe...Well I don't have any friends who can surf that live nearby. One of my friends has had a surfboard for over 2 years and has yet to use it. So we're basically gonna try and wing it and try not to hurt ourselves!

True :D

I Gotta Study all week end..i hate exams :x

Good luck with the exams!

MacMoto

05-24-2006, 06:10 AM

Last weekend -- no salsa (shock! horror! :shock:).

Next weekend:
For Friday I have to choose between a live gig (great band but not a dance venue. Probably too crowded to dance, and few leaders to dance with anyway) and a regular club (okay DJ, tiny club, dancefloor often taken over by clueless drunks, but there will be some regular faces to dance with). :?

Sunday's my fave social but I can be there only for an hour or so :cry: :cry:. There are going to be some Cuban-style workshops before that, so I may attend those too...

Terremoto

05-24-2006, 01:34 PM

This coming up weekend I had planned a three day trip to hood river, Oregon with a friend, to do some kiteboarding, snowboarding and mountain biking. However, our weekend got rained out :( totally sucks!

Also, a lot of the local salser@s are away for a salsa congress - so the clubs won't be very good. So what to do, what to do with my weekend? Hhhmmm - hard to say :?:

Tony_salvi

05-25-2006, 03:57 AM

I hate when that happens man..seems like a lot of the clubs seem bare during any local or close congress.

Wish I had the time and money to make it to one of those

Terremoto

05-25-2006, 11:39 AM

I was thinking about going to the congress myself, but then my friend came up with this idea of having a fun sports weekend . . . should have went to the congress :cry:

Salsero JR

05-25-2006, 04:35 PM

Hey Terremoto Wasup,

So, last night I went out dancing at Outlaws. I was really surprised because the place was absolutely packed. I thought it would be dead with so many people gone to the LA congress.

Anyway, maybe this bodes well for us Friday night at H2O.

:banana: :banana: Salsero JR :banana: :banana:

Terremoto

05-25-2006, 05:35 PM

Right on man - thats good news all around. I'm glad outlaws is picking up - I was there the last couple of weeks and it was OK. I'm thinking about going to Andrea's Cha Cha room tonight - we'll see. I'm hoping H20 will be good on Friday night.

Also - its good to see you posting again!

Salsero JR

05-25-2006, 05:42 PM

Dude, do you realize that you have over 500 posts on this forum and I've got just over 50. If Salsa Forums gave got frequent flyer miles for the number postings you could take a trip anywhere you wanted.

:rocker: THAT'S TOTALLY COOL :rocker: , KEEP IT UP.

:banana: :banana: Salsero JR :banana: :banana:

Terremoto

05-25-2006, 06:19 PM

Thanks man - I've been working it :!:

lolita

05-26-2006, 07:31 AM

couldnt start enjoying my weekend lastnight
but am making it up to maself today.... shoppinggggggggggggg then salsa at nightt

Terremoto

05-26-2006, 06:09 PM

Lolita - hope you have fun shopping!

My weekend started last night. I went out to Andrea's Cha Cha club. Its a small club and can get pretty smokey - so I haven't gone in about a year. However, friends of mine kept telling me that a lot of people show up on Thursday nights and there is a live cuban band. So I figured I had to give it a shot - I called up a couple of friends to see if they wanted to join me and I found one lady who said she would go.

The band was awesome!!! The band's name was "Cubaneo" Oh man - they played with so much heart and feeling and they were just getting into and the crowd could just feel the vibration, it was awesome!!! However, there weren't very many dancers there that were above a beginner level. And floor craft - didn't exist. The floor was crowded - but people should not have been running into me as much as they should have. People were just not aware of their surroundings. One guy lead a girl into a spin and then into some type of a cuddle move and he almost ended up cuddling with me - I was like, hey buddy, I don't want to get to know you that well :D And then this one lady was trying to cross the floor and she literally shoved me out of her way - I'm serious. SHe physically shoved me - unbelievable, I've never been shoved like that on a dance floor - totally rude. But I danced most of the night with the one lady that agreed to meet me at the club and we had a great time - mostly because the band was just so good.

As for the rest of my weekend - I'm not sure. I'm hoping the sun will come out so maybe I could do something outdoors.

lolita

05-26-2006, 10:58 PM

lmao torremoto u literally made me laugh
LOOOOOOOl sorry for being shoved

and yeah i had great time shopping great time dancinggggggggg

Terremoto

05-27-2006, 03:30 AM

Glad I could make you smile :D

Terremoto

06-14-2006, 12:16 AM

Work has been pretty hectic so I am posting a little bit past the weekend. But my weekend went well. I went to bed early friday - no dancing - because I wanted to get up early so I could spend the whole day mountain biking! I had a great day. And then the next day I was hoping for wind so I could go kiteboarding, but there was no wind, but it wasn't rainy, so I spent another day mountain biking - My legs were pretty sore monday morning but I had a great time. I'm hoping that this weekend we will get some sun and wind!! And saturday night I went to a house party and they had some salsa dancing which was all good!

Terremoto

06-16-2006, 12:39 PM

So it looks like its going to be a sunny and windy this weekend! Columbia river gorge here I come!!! Kiteboarding all weekend!

DeeplyDippy

06-16-2006, 02:26 PM

The south of England is in for a heat wave this weekend :D

Rather than a 1 dayer tomorrow, I think I'll just go along in the evening and try to keep cool !

Terremoto

06-27-2006, 02:24 PM

I had a great weekend!!! On Friday I left a little early and went to the gym. Then I went out dancing - it was an OK night, I was just really tired. Then Saturday I went mountain biking - it was a rough ride, - It was a 15 mile loop around a lake and at 7.5 miles I crashed on my bicycle. I was fine, but I messed up my gears, so I had 7.5 more miles to go before I could get back to my car and my bike wasn't working right. I tried fixing it, but I could only get a handful of gears to work. So I had to just tough it out. I got home and then immediately took my bike to the shop - I bent a bracket that cost $10 to fix - so I repaired my bike so I would be ready to ride again on Sunday. so then sunday I spent the day at the beach and got way too much sun - I kiteboarded and hung out with friends and had a couple of drinks - it was a good day. Then I went out dancing on sunday - I had a great night. And monday I had off from work, so I just hung out - i wanted to go back to the beach, but I had gotten too much sun from the day before.

And now I'm back at work - looking forward to tomorrow night so that I can go out dancing again!!

lolita

07-01-2006, 05:52 PM

well, i should've posted this 2 days ago, but i didnt have any time to log on thursday.
AAAAAAAAANyways; for this week end i went to Alexandria, to go to the opening of la piste alexandria and it was amazinggggg, but it was toooooooooo crowded, the club is an open place on the beach, salsa music all over, most of the salser@s from cairo were there, and every one was happy.
then the next morning ( actually afternoon cuz we returned to the apartement after aclubbing at 7:00 am :shock: ) we went to the beach, relaxed, had a very nice tan ( we is almost all of my close frinds ) :D and we saw the some salser@s too so we danced on the beach!

i got to know some really nice guys..i am glad

we cruised in Alex, its a wonderfull city, and i mean it WONDERFULL.
came back today at 7:00 pm, slept for a couple of hours, and here i am postin but i will definately go to bed again!

bad thing is: i had a lil fight with one of the pplz i thought respectable !

peachexploration

07-01-2006, 08:49 PM

I'm glad you have a great time in spite of the lil fight. :D

MacMoto

07-13-2006, 03:23 AM

Last weekend I danced with HF! He's fantastic :D -- it was great fun!

This weekend is my favourite monthly. I hope we will get another good turnout. Can't wait :D

07-13-2006, 06:53 AM

Last weekend I danced with HF! He's fantastic :D -- it was great fun!

This weekend is my favourite monthly. I hope we will get another good turnout. Can't wait :D
Great!!! :D :rocker:

peachexploration

07-13-2006, 09:24 AM

Fantastic for Mac and HF! :banana: :cheers:

07-18-2006, 12:39 PM

Last weekend I danced with HF! He's fantastic :D -- it was great fun!

Hey MacMoto,
very nice of you but I really enjoyed our dancing at least as you did! :D

It is a unique experience to meet a and dance with a person from another country only familiar through the forums. Many many of you had this chance before but it was a premiere for me ... and a very pleasant one and great fun!

Hannes

salcero2005

07-25-2006, 01:12 PM

Last weekend was good. Took some good group lessons and went to a party Saturday and Social on Sunday. I had to leave town Sunday night, which was unfortunate because after the Social there is a free club with a really nice wood floor and everyone from the social goes there as well as other dancers.

Looking forward even more to this weekend because of my first ever private lesson, group classes, free concert with Sonora Poncena, Joe Bataan, Grupo Latin Vibe, Tato Torres' Yerba Buena & the Camacho Brothers, and then a Social at the South Street Seaport with a good DJ and a decent number of mambo dancers.

Sunday there is the Jimmy Anton social, but I will probably be worn out by then. A lot of the performers will be at the Congress in PR so it should be more laid back than usual. :D

DeeplyDippy

08-18-2006, 08:25 AM

This weekend there's several days of World dance at Glastonbury :)

The highlight for me will be Alex Wilson's R&B Latino playing tomorrow night !

Terremoto

09-09-2006, 12:06 AM

I need to put a couple of more hours in at work and then my weekend will start!

I won't be dancing much this weekend because everyone will be at the NorthWest congress so I'll have to figure out something else to do with my time.

Terremoto

10-22-2006, 12:01 PM

so far the weekend is going great! I had two good nights of dancing in a row! And now (Sunday) I am going to spend the day mountain biking - I just need to get ready and I will be on my way.

Terremoto

11-24-2006, 08:44 PM

I took off thursday, friday, monday, and tuesday! So I have six days off in a row. Sweet!! If only every weekend was this long :)

so I plan on getting my groove on Friday, saturday and sunday night!! Today is Friday and I will go to a house party that is supposed to have a clear living room that people are going to be dancing! Hopefully it will go well!!

DeeplyDippy

11-27-2006, 09:16 AM

Just been to see two bands over the weekend with a party night between. Day of the living dead at the mo :lol:

And next weekend we do all again !

Terremoto

12-21-2006, 07:16 PM

I have a three day weekend coming up - due to christmas. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I don't really have much planned for christmas day and I'm not sure what the salsa scene is going to look like this weekend with christmas on monday . . . soooo, well see.

Terremoto

01-08-2007, 09:12 PM

well right now I'm on vacation so my weekend is a total of five days :lol: totally loving it!

I'm in Phoenix visiting my family - I went out salsa dancing friday, saturday, and sunday and each night was all good!!

I'm flying home to portland tomorrow and I'll be dancing again on Wednesday night!!!

Terremoto

01-22-2007, 04:33 PM

This weekend I spent most of it sleeping recovering from a cold :( I went to bed around 10:00 pm on friday night and didn't wake up until 11:00 AM saturday. And then I was in bed again saturday night around 8:00 pm. But on Sunday I was feeling much better and went snowboarding :) today is monday and I am feeling pretty good. It will take a couple of more days to feel completely better. But hopefully soon!

MacMoto

01-23-2007, 05:44 AM

This weekend I didn't get to go dancing on Friday (my usual salsa fix night) and on Sunday I went out and had a total of 5 dances in 4 hours :cry:. Had to go out on Monday to get a proper fix -- felt much better afterwards :).

Terremoto

01-23-2007, 12:24 PM

MacMoto

01-23-2007, 03:06 PM

But I'm glad you got your fix on Monday!
Paying for it now though -- I feel like a zombie.

MacMoto

02-15-2007, 05:30 AM

London - here I come! :banana: :banana: :banana:
I will be going to SOS this coming Sunday after spending the weekend in Bath. Any SFers going?

One question to those who have been to SOS -- what's the floor like there? I am taking only one pair of shoes and want to make sure it's the right one.

DeeplyDippy

02-15-2007, 08:49 AM

No - I'm going to Swing, Salsa and Tango Ball in Winchester - black tie, lovely evening :D

Terremoto

02-15-2007, 04:55 PM

No - I'm going to Swing, Salsa and Tango Ball in Winchester - black tie, lovely evening :D

Hope its fun!

lolita

02-16-2007, 07:22 AM

WORKING WEEKEND :s

AndrewD

02-19-2007, 12:21 PM

MacMoto

02-19-2007, 03:56 PM

I've never been to SOS so couldn't help with your question.

Hope you had fun in London?
It was a good place but closed very early :(. I was told it was quieter than usual. Had some good dances and met some friendly people though. Next time I'll try and get there in time for the classes.

Terremoto

02-19-2007, 11:05 PM

I had a pretty good weekend. I went out salsa dancing on friday night - had a good night. I stayed in saturday night - went to bed early, and then snowboarded all day on sunday. Snowboarding was OK - tons of snow - lots of powder. But the wind was blowing so hard I could barely see my boots :(

Terremoto

03-15-2007, 12:35 PM

So its Thursday but I am already thinking about my weekend :D

My plans are not set as of right now. I would like to go snowboarding either saturday or sunday and I plan on going to a new salsa club on saturday night.

Swannie

03-15-2007, 01:58 PM

Heh, my weekends are now being planned weeks in advance... scary but true.

This weekend I've got a couple of hours of tai chi on Saturady afternoon (might be helping teach on Saturday morning, not asked my instructor yet). Saturday night I will be dancing the night away.

I *could* go scuba diving on Sunday, but a) still have a bit of a cold, b) it's going to be like 7 degrees C in the water, and I think my drysuit has a leak. So I will probably end up going for a run (eep, half marathon a week this sunday and my training has been VERY lacking :S), and salsa class in the afternoon, probably followed by Sunday lunch if all goes well.

Possibly try and get in a film on Friday night (although some friends were talking about a Brazilian night in Bristol, so that might be good).

TheBear_CanDanceToo

03-15-2007, 01:59 PM

No plans for the weekend other than shopping (why can't my OH do this during the week whilst I'm at work? - not that I'm bitter and twisted, you understand) and probably some sort of family time out with our son. So no salsa but the little one makes the pill so much easier to swallow!

MacMoto

03-16-2007, 05:50 AM

Last night I went dancing after a big meal -- bad idea. A three course meal with glasses of wine and spinning don't mix. I left early. So I'm hoping I'll get a decent fix tonight.

No dancing on Saturday - swedish massage in the morning and off to a cinema in the afternoon, then just chill (well that's the plan anyway, but who knows -- the salsa club is only 10 minutes' walk away :roll:). Swimming and some more dancing on Sunday.

03-16-2007, 08:19 AM

swedish massage
Cool! :rocker:

DeeplyDippy

03-16-2007, 09:52 AM

This weekend I shall be seeing the salsera I've just started dating :D

Terremoto

03-18-2007, 02:06 PM

This weekend I shall be seeing the salsera I've just started dating :D

Double Ds - it sounds like this new salsera is working out for you :lol:

As for myself, well I am having a good weekend. I went snowboarding yesterday (Saturday) and then went out dancing saturday night. Dancing was good!! There wasn't a whole lot of people at the club - I think due to St. Patrick's day. But I still got some really good dances in! And right now I'm sitting at my desk at home paying bills. I'll be done here in about 15 minutes and then I think I'll go for a hike or something.

DeeplyDippy

03-26-2007, 09:06 AM

I spent the weekend on the south coast @ Brighton. I'd gone to see Alex Wilson in concert (non UK SFers - he leads the best homegrown salsa talent we've got).

9 piece band, 4 in the brass section + 3 singers. Great sound but not as good a night as I've had previously at one of his concerts.

The audience was full of muggles! I had to flash the elbows a few times to carve out some dance space :D

Terremoto

03-26-2007, 12:34 PM

I had a pretty laid back weekend. I went out salsa dancing both Friday and Saturday night. I haven't been out dancing two nights in a row in a while. Other than that - I spent some time at the gym and just spending time in the sun :)

Terremoto

04-09-2007, 04:32 PM

This was a good weekend! I went snowboarding on Sunday and no one was there due to the Easter holiday. I also got caught up on my sleep which is a pretty rate thing :)

Next weekend I may be kitebaording and salsa dancing - well see!

Terremoto

04-16-2007, 12:35 PM

I had another great weekend. Friday I was in Boise, Idaho for work. But I flew back Friday night and was able to go home and quickly get ready to go salsa dancing. Great night Friday night!! And then on Saturday I rested and got caught up on home stuff. Saturday night I went out salsa dancing again. Sunday I was going to go kiteboarding - but a friend talked me into going snowboarding with her. So I spent sunday snowboarding - it was a good day. The season is winding up - but there is probably two maybe three weeks left of snow.

Terremoto

04-20-2007, 07:34 PM

Its 4:30 PM and I'm just about to get off of work - I think I'll sneak out of here around 5:10 :)

So whats on the agenda this weekend? HHmmm, well, I'm going out dancing tonight. Then tomorrow I'll probably go snowboarding - I'll show up around 10:30 AM or so - I need my sleep after dancing and before snowboarding. Then I'll come home, take care of some stuff around the house, go out dancing again, and then sunday - sunday is open. Not much going on. I would like to go kiteboarding, but that would mean that the weather would have to clear up. I bought all this cool gear - but I haven't had a chance to use it just yet :( Oh well. Hopefully soon!!

TheBear_CanDanceToo

04-20-2007, 08:19 PM

Yo Terremoto - I woulfn't want you to be the only person that ever posts here! :lol:

01:15 and I'm off to bed. Been to the cinema this evening whilst OH watched American Idol at home. There's a bash on tomorrow night in Derby but I can't go as OH is planning to go to an Ann Summers party. Which is nice. I don't begrudge her this at all - she doesn't go out much whereas I do get to go out probably average once or twice a fortnight.
Only thing is, she's not confident in following directions and we haven't got the directions yet. This would be bad, if I passed up the chance for Derby and OH didn't go out!

Terremoto

04-20-2007, 09:38 PM

Yo Terremoto - I woulfn't want you to be the only person that ever posts here! :lol:

LOL - I just figured I would use this as my personal journal to keep track of what I do over the weekends :)

MacMoto

04-21-2007, 06:32 AM

A quiet weekend -- nothing special on other than the regular nights at my local salsa club. Went there on Thursday and last night. Will go again tomorrow night but not sure if I'll go tonight -- might go and see a film instead. The place is tiny and always gets too busy, and I dance terribly when there are too many bodies bouncing around as I tense up trying to avoid collisions. Sunday nights are quieter and, if good leads turn up, can be quite nice.

I'm looking forward to some non-stop action next week at the MamboCity congress in London :D! I'm only doing Fri and Sat nights, but there will be a local monthly back in Edinburgh, which will hopefully be good too.

Meeting a friend (non-salsa friend!! :shock: Actually she started out as a salsa friend but has dropped out of the scene) this afternoon.

Terremoto

04-23-2007, 02:04 PM

I had an absolutely wonderful weekend! It didn't really go as planned - but still great!

Friday night I went to the ususal salsa spot - and to my horror - there was no salsa - the club was empty and a jazz band was playing :( (OK so my weekend didn't start off on the right foot - but it got better).

So a group of friends went out for a drink and then were going to head to a different salsa spot. We ended up drinking and laughing most of the night and then realized it was pretty late and then we all went home.

Saturday I went snowboarding!! It had snowed hard the night before and it was snowing all day!! About eight inches of fresh snow in total in late April!! I also went up with two of my snowboarding buddies. It was actually the first time all year we had gone up together. One of them was in a car accident and this was the first time he was healthy enough to go up to the mountain. It was great riding with them!!

Then Saturday night I went to the usual salsa spot - the mambo lounge. However, I only stayed for an hour because I had to meet up with a friend later that night. It was kind of cool pakcing all the dances in one hour. There were a lot of ladies there I wanted to dance with and had to actively work to make sure I danced with each of them. It was definately one salsa packed hour.

So then I met up with a friend of mine from when I was in college. We stayed in a dorm room accross from eachother. We met when I was 19 (I am 30 now). We have kept in loose contact with eachother ever since. It was really great reconnecting with him. He moved to Eugene, OR (1.5 hour drive south from Portland). So we hung out and laughed and really had a good time. Its interesting the number of turns that life has taken over the last 11 years.

Then on sunday I pretty much just relaxed - cleaned up my place - practiced some isolations - went to the park and hung out.

That was my weekend :) Now its Monday around 11:00 AM and I'm about to head off to lunch in an hour or so.

Swannie

04-24-2007, 05:28 AM

Terre sounds like a good weekend.

Mine didn't quite go as planned - no salsa :(

Friday straight after work I jumped on the train to my parents. Had dinner with them then the whole family watched a DVD which was nice.

Saturday I was up early to drive to tai chi training, which was most of the day, and very very good. Saturday evening I call up my friends near my parents, two of them were practically at the cinema, a good 45min drive away, and two were 2+ hours away visiting friends... argh! So another night in with the parents - it was too late to make it to the salsa 50mins away - I'd have missed the classes, and I'm terrible at asking people to dance if I haven't warmed up in a class situation.

Sunday was a day of training kung fu, which again was most of the day (10-4:30), most of it was way way way beyond my level, but picked up some really useful tips. Dinner with my parents, train home, finished up the weekend sipping a single malt scotch I was given for my birthday :)

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Terremoto

04-24-2007, 12:11 PM

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Hey I saw that :P

peachexploration

04-24-2007, 12:16 PM

Post 300

Hey I saw that :P

Congrats Mr. Tumbao! :cheers:

Swannie

04-24-2007, 01:24 PM

Post 300

Hey I saw that :P

Congrats Mr. Tumbao! :cheers:

Thanks :) Couldn't have done it on my own... well I could... but it would have looked kinda silly me just talkin' to myself.

Terremoto

04-24-2007, 01:58 PM

Thanks :) Couldn't have done it on my own... well I could... but it would have looked kinda silly me just talkin' to myself.

What do you think this thread USED to be for me? HaHa :D

04-24-2007, 03:29 PM

Post 300

Hey I saw that :P

Congrats Mr. Tumbao! :cheers:
Ditto! :cheers:

DeeplyDippy

04-24-2007, 06:39 PM

Well done Swannie :D

Now, where do I find a Mr Potato Head version of Londo Calrizian ?

Terremoto

04-27-2007, 01:56 PM

This weekend should be great!! Tonight we have a live salsa concert and we have the opening night of a new salsa venue. I'm thinking about hitting both of them.

Saturday during the day looks like it will be a good day for kiteboarding :) It will be my first time out this season!

Saturday night I'll go to the Mambo lounge - its my favorite place for salsa dancing in Portland.

Sunday looks like a good day for snowboarding (just as long as the rain stays away :) ) we will see!!

TheBear_CanDanceToo

04-27-2007, 09:38 PM

Just back from our local social at The Engine Shed in Wetherby. Socials there have been going on since way before I learned to dance and it's probably better attended than ever, now. It's nice to know some venues last. Off to bed just as soon as I've checked over the dance threads. :)

MacMoto

04-30-2007, 04:27 AM

Good weekend :D.

On Friday and Saturday I attended MamboCity congress. This was my second time there and, like the last time, I enjoyed it. I like the setup there, with a nice open area connecting the two rooms. I stayed mostly in the main room then went to the after party downstairs (best part of the night, I think).

I couldn't afford three nights in a single room :( so left on Sunday. Had an hour's snooze then went to Salsa Sunday at the Merlin in Edinburgh. Merlin nights had been quiet recently, but this night turned out to be a very good one so I was glad I didn't miss it.

SnowDancer

04-30-2007, 02:14 PM

It was a pretty intense salsa weekend for me, especially since I'm a fairly recent addict.

Saturday, it was a 3-hour workshop on smoother partnering and musicality. That night, my wife and I went dancing at Mambo Lounge. Sunday, we went to the last-Sunday-of-the-month social, which was preceded by a beginning class on Cuban salsa. So now I know 3 styles that I need to improve at. :?

Terremoto

04-30-2007, 04:33 PM

I had a wonderful weekend! Friday night I decided to go to an opening night of a new salsa venue. The City Sports Grill or something like that. I had a pretty good time just because there were a handful of good dancers. However, I did not like the venue at all!! Due to its location (downtown) it pulls in and relies upon a heavy drinking crowd that likes regaeton - so it played a lot of regaeton and a lot of merenge and some cumbia. The floor was very small - it was smokey - the floor had cracks in it. And over all - I didn't like the atmosphere - the non-salser@s outnumbered the salser@s by like three two one.

So then Saturday I went kiteboarding. It was my first time out this season!! I was just waiting for the wind to pick up!! It felt great to be on my board again.

Saturday night went to the mambo lounge (didn't run in to Snowdancers - however, I probably saw him but just didn't know it).

Sunday I went snowboarding. Generally there is about a month or two of overlap between kiteboarding and snowboarding season - its always awesome to do both. However, the snow was extremely slushy - like mashed potatos.

Terremoto

04-30-2007, 04:48 PM

One more thing - I had the most bizarre dance I have ever had last Friday night.

Here's how it went down: I went up to a friend of mine on Friday night and I asked him if he knew who knew how to dance (there were a lot of non dancers there - see my post above this one). So then this one lady comes up and says hello to my friend and then my friend basically says to me that I should go and dancer with her :?

OK - so I start to lead her and see that she is a beginner - no big deal. Then she starts like standing in place and shaking - and I'm like what??? SHe says - "Its OK, I'm just releasing energy" - OK, whatever, I guess I can deal with that. And then as I'm trying to turn her I feel her starting to resist me - very strongly - she was a very strong woman. And then she started trying to lead me :neutral: but I couldn't figure out what she was doing - and then she basically over powered me and started trying to crank me through some turns :? She hurt my shoulders. SO then I broke contact - started shining and then I tried starting to try and lead her again. Then she said she was done dancing and walked off (that was the best part of the dance).

I went up to my friend after the dance - and asked him "Dude, what the *@%^?" HE just laughed - he watched us dancing and though it was funny. I told him Payback is coming!

Terremoto

05-10-2007, 02:11 PM

This weekend I am flying home to Phoenix. I should be able to get a couple of nights of dancing in!!

Swannie

05-11-2007, 06:27 AM

Hola,

Salsa packed weekend.

Salsa tonight in a cafe in Bath. Always a packed packed venue, where bumping into each other is the norm, but it has a really nice atmostphere because it is so small. Calls for lots of small dancing, but that's cool, I can work on styling and musical interpretation.

Tomorrow over in Bristol (40mins drive) there are a couple of afternoon classes with Marchant Birch, followed a few hours later by a party with another class from Marchant and dancing until 2am. Hopefully the venue is nice - not been to this one before.

Sunday I might do the intermediate and improvers classes in Bath. The intermediate is always worth going to as it's such low numbers the attention is really good, not to mention the quality of the teaching.

So that leaves Saturday and Sunday morning for chores, and Sunday after salsa to spend some time chilling out with a work collegue who is visiting Bath for a week! (Although he's done dance classes, that was with his wife before his wedding, I don't think he really fancies coming out tonight... shame!).

DeeplyDippy

05-11-2007, 09:48 AM

Packed weekend here also :D

Off to Swindon tonight, Southampton on Saturday and Reading Sunday. :lol:

Terremoto

05-18-2007, 12:22 PM

This weekend should be good. I have a non-salsa dancing friend coming into town tonight - well hang out. Then saturday I'll go snowboarding! Its the last weekend that the mountain will be open. So I am going to get my kicks on my board one more time. And then saturday night I'll go out dancing. Sunday - well, not sure what I'm doing sunday.

DeeplyDippy

05-18-2007, 09:08 PM

Another busy salsa weekend :D Hopefully, I'll have some friends round for a drink before tomorrow nights dance.

Terremoto

05-21-2007, 01:34 AM

I had a good weekend. Friday night I hung out with a non-salsa friend at a local bar - just had some drinks. Saturday I helped clean up a local beach site from lots of fallen trees - very tough work - we had to cut up a lot of trees and toss them in a bonfire - the bonfire was cool. I'm really freaking sore.

Then saturday night I went out dancing and sunday I mostly just hung out and took care of stuff around the house.

azzey

05-23-2007, 09:50 PM

This weekend, I will be.... wait for it... [hush] .. DANCING!

DeeplyDippy

05-24-2007, 04:17 AM

This weekend, I should be going up to London on Friday. Then, there's two bands on Saturday and Sunday. Roberto Pla, Saturday in High Wycombe and Robin del Castillo in Reading on Sunday.

Should be a busy weekend :D

azzey

05-25-2007, 12:28 PM

Terremoto

05-28-2007, 12:01 PM

I'm enjoying my three day weekend!!

Not a whole lot of dancing - I went out on Friday night and thats about it. My weekend has been centered around kite boarding - the winds are finally strong and are present most days!! Its 9:00 AM right now - I'm going to get something to eat and then head out again :)

Swannie

05-31-2007, 07:18 AM

This weekend I am going on holiday, for a week, to what must appear to everyone, as my favourite destination - EGYPT!

Going for a week to Sharm El Sheikh for diving :D Just on my own :)

Lolita - don't suppose you know if there are any hotels with salsa in that area? :P Unfortunately I will be diving 5 days, and will have built up too much no-fly-time to fly to Cairo to say hello on my last day of my holiday (and 6 hours on the coach is NOT fun).

Wooo, so excited, but so much to do... still need to sort out travel to/from the airport this end, scuba kit, money etc! Crazy, but at least I've been to this place before, and know how it all works!

MacMoto

05-31-2007, 11:25 AM

Hope I'll get some decent amount of dancing this weekend -- after 3 weeks of overeating and not dancing much, I really need a good fix. Action starts tonight (hopefully).

AndrewD

05-31-2007, 11:29 AM

Hope I'll get some decent amount of dancing this weekend -- after 3 weeks of overeating and not dancing much, I really need a good fix. Action starts tonight (hopefully).

Welcome back Mrs Moto - I assume the above is honeymoon related?

TheBear_CanDanceToo

05-31-2007, 07:32 PM

Hoping to get to Jambo's Salsa Fix party tomorrow evening. Don't think Mrs. Bear likes the idea of being left in alone now American Idol has finished, though.

Jambo

05-31-2007, 08:30 PM

Hoping to get to Jambo's Salsa Fix party tomorrow evening. Don't think Mrs. Bear likes the idea of being left in alone now American Idol has finished, though.

Ooooh, I do hope you can make it Mr Bear :D No pressure though, you'll have to do what Mummy Bear says 'cos she's the boss (and Baby Bear is second in command), so just be a good boy all day.......maybe buy her some flowers......no.........shoes :D Us wimin like shoes!!!

DeeplyDippy

06-01-2007, 04:05 AM

Woolacombe's coming up - anyone going ?

Terremoto

06-04-2007, 05:59 PM

I enjoyed a sunny weekend!!

Friday night and saturday night went out salsa dancing - both nights were good :)

Saturday day and Sunday day went out kiteboarding - the winds were good.

I am pretty exhausted today - I'm hoping to get some rest before wednesday night when I will go out dancing again.

Jambo

06-07-2007, 11:29 AM

Friday I'm crossing the Pennines and venturing into pastures new (Yorkshire), I've had my jabs and everything :D

DeeplyDippy

06-07-2007, 11:31 AM

Friday I'm crossing the Pennines and venturing into pastures new (Yorkshire), I've had my jabs and everything :D
But will you be allowed back in ?

Jambo

06-07-2007, 11:35 AM

Friday I'm crossing the Pennines and venturing into pastures new (Yorkshire), I've had my jabs and everything :D
But will you be allow back in ?

:shock: Never thought of that. Hmmm, it will be very late when we cross the border, maybe we can just sneak back into Lancashire dressed in a pantomime cow outfit ;)

DeeplyDippy

06-07-2007, 11:37 AM

I'll be packing for the Woolacombe weekender tonight and travelling down tomorrow first thing :D

If you don't know Devon, then Woolacombe is a very small town by a beautiful beach. As I ended up in the sanddunes with a couple of topless friends last year I'm keen to get on back ... :D

DeeplyDippy

06-07-2007, 11:58 AM

Jambo

06-07-2007, 12:02 PM

DeeplyDippy

06-07-2007, 12:05 PM

Yup!! Big fat cow it is! Just another normal night for me :lol:
That didn't come out quite right :oops:

I was thinking of Nursie from BlackAdder :D

Jambo

06-07-2007, 02:15 PM

Yup!! Big fat cow it is! Just another normal night for me :lol:
That didn't come out quite right :oops:

I was thinking of Nursie from BlackAdder :D

In that case.....Mr and Mrs Spank will be taking a short sharp trip to botty land!! ;)

sagitta

06-07-2007, 03:31 PM

Great dances this past weekend at the Ithaca festival. Some nice swing dances and dancing in front of small latinish bands on Sunday. Also did a small demo of rueda on Saturday and danced a couple zydecos. Friday...I cannot remember...

peachexploration

06-10-2007, 06:35 PM

Well, I didn't do much today. Just cooked dinner. BBQ Meatloaf. Yummy and fattening. :roll: Oh well. Yesterday was pretty cool though. I went shopping. Starting my summer wardrobe. The theme this year is Foxy! It started out with a green dress. I usually cant stand green but somehow, this works for me. :D Also, purchased some foxy blouses and foxy jewelry. Oh did I mention the summer theme for me this year is FOXY! :P :lol:

Terremoto

06-14-2007, 12:23 PM

I am going to be enjoying a four day weekend!! I am taking Friday off to go kiteboarding - hopefully the winds will be good. Saturday and sunday - kiteboarding and salsa dancing!! Then on Monday I will need to rest and take care of stuff around the house - maybe practice some shines :)

MacMoto

06-25-2007, 07:31 AM

Non-dancing weekend :(.

Tried to get back to Edinburgh to catch the tail end of the Merlin last night, but my flight was 2 hours late. :cry:

sweavo

06-25-2007, 08:28 AM

Saturday night taught a basic on1 class at a wedding and stayed for the live band. 'Twas ace! Turned out 80% of the people there were musicians. They had zero trouble with the timing. However after the class proper, when they'd been social dancing for a bit, one guy asked me how many basics would you typically do before changing, e.g. to the side basic. First time I've had a question like that!

Sunday morning I did an hour's Contemporary Dance and an hour's Street at free taster classes put on as part of dance week York. I'm still feeling the effects! My body hasn't moved like that for about 20 years...

06-25-2007, 09:21 AM

Went dancing Saturday night. It was a bit slow at first, but lots of folks showed up late and was a really good night. Plenty of room, good floor, good music, a couple of nice performances, lots of salseras to dance with... what else could I ask for? :D

MacMoto

06-29-2007, 07:33 AM

Went dancing last night -- first time since last Thursday. Feel a lot better now :roll:

Hoping to go again tonight, although Friday (and Saturday) nights at this venue are usually too insanely mobbed, often with drinking party crowds. It doesn't help that the floor is tiny (it feels busy when there are only 10 couples dancing crossbody).

Definitely dancing on Sunday and Monday (in London -- woo hoo! :banana:)

07-02-2007, 08:14 AM

Last Saturday seems to have been affected by the upcoming July 4th holiday as a lot of the regulars weren't around. Danced with a lot of beginners - glad to see new faces trying out salsa.

Terremoto

09-26-2007, 01:21 PM

Its Wednesday so its time to start thinking about the weekend :)

I'm hoping to leave around 12:00 on Friday to head to the Oregon Coast. I am going to spend the weekend there just hanging out. I'm hoping that there will be wind so I can kiteboard in the ocean!! Otherwise I'll be running/walking on the beach, hiking - and enjoying a sleepy little beach town's night life.

sagitta

09-26-2007, 03:11 PM

Last weekend was a non-dancing one as I was sick. This upcoming weekend? Latin dance (forro etc) Friday. Saturday I'm thinking of crashing the Cornell ballroom social. Supposed to be tango and mambo.

Terremoto

10-07-2007, 02:02 PM

Sunday afternoon - having a pretty relaxed day. Went out last night dancing - had a great night!!

Swannie

10-09-2007, 10:40 AM

This coming weekend... Salsa on Friday night... woooo!

Flying to Israel with work on Sunday... for 2months!

This has prompted my return to the forums (which was just because I didn't feel I could afford the time keeping up to date any longer)... I'd like to hear from anyone in the Tel Aviv area, possibly to get out to a couple of things next week (or maybe week after - potentially my boss is out there next week!).

Hoping to enjoy lots of salsa in Israel!

But it's going to be hard to leave my salsa friends behind for that long. So glad there is salsa on Friday and I can say goodbye to them in the proper style :)

MacMoto

10-19-2007, 08:23 AM

Will be meeting up with an old friend of mine this afternoon :), then dinner with hubby (at the restaurant where we had our first date - romantic or what? :lol:). Hopefully a bit of salsa afterwards.

Tomorrow, going to cinema - haven't decided what to see... Hallam Foe, The Kingdom, Michael Clayton or Rendition. Hopefully a bit of salsa afterwards.

Probably a trip to a DIY store on Sunday. And no salsa :(

Terremoto

10-19-2007, 11:35 AM

Tonight I am going to a balet and then hopefully salsa dancing. More salsa dancing saturday night. Saturday and sunday during the day - I'm not sure what I am doing. I am hoping for wind so I can go kiteboarding. If not - then mountain biking in the rain :D

sagitta

10-19-2007, 12:24 PM

Tango dance tonight and latin dance tomorrow.

SnowDancer

10-19-2007, 01:07 PM

Terremoto

10-19-2007, 02:26 PM

Hope to go salsa dancing with my wife tonight. Friday's not usually very crowded, so it should be a fairly relaxed evening.

Rest of weekend: Sleep, practice spinning, wax and tune-up snowboard. I'm feeling pretty lazy.

There is a performance at Aztec Willie's by Antonio's group. So there will probably be more people than normal.

SnowDancer

10-19-2007, 08:07 PM

There is a performance at Aztec Willie's by Antonio's group. So there will probably be more people than normal.

That's okay. We went to his beginner and intermediate classes last year, and I'd like to see him perform.

Terremoto

10-22-2007, 12:06 PM

Had a pretty chilled weekend for the most part. Friday I went to a ballet for the first time. I thought the gymnastic type performances were pretty amazing.

Saturday I had a good night salsa dancing. I showed up early and five of my favorite salser@s were there - sitting down because not very many leads had shown up yet 8) I was like sweet!! I was able to dance with all of five of them before the crowds started showing up. So it was a great start to an evening.

MacMoto

10-26-2007, 05:36 AM

sagitta

10-26-2007, 05:34 PM

Syracuse - latin dancing tonight.

Terremoto

10-26-2007, 11:31 PM

Not sure what I have going on tonight. The venue tonight isn't very good :( so I may have to go out somewhere else. Hang out with some non-salsa friends :) well see.

MacMoto

10-29-2007, 05:03 AM

I'll be going to York this afternoon...

Tonight: Dancing in York - woo hoo! :banana:

Tomorrow: Giving presentation at 10am at a workshop :( Going out to dinner afterwards. No dancing.

Sunday: Head back to Edinburgh after lunch. Hoping to go to the Merlin for some dancing.
I went dancing on Friday (2 venues!) and Sunday. Really enjoyed all of them. The Merlin wasn't busy but I managed to dance to all the songs but one (a bachata) 8).

Saturday's presentation went down well despite technical problems, which meant I had to do it without my powerpoint slides.

MacMoto

11-02-2007, 10:33 AM

Hoping to dance a bit tonight at the local club in Edinburgh.

Tommorow I'm hoping to go to one of the Glasgow salsa nights - it's been ages since I did any dancing in Glasgow apart from Sunday afternoons. Unfortunately, it looks like there's going to be two events clashing this week, which no doubt will split the crowd... :(

Sunday evening I'll be going to the Lounge (hope the number will start picking up). Not sure if I'll go to Glasgow for the Sunday social before that, do one of the workshops at Dance Base in Edinburgh, or just go for a walk (weather permitting).

MacMoto

11-05-2007, 01:26 PM

Hoping to dance a bit tonight at the local club in Edinburgh.
Disappointing night, with hen parties and not many dancers :(

Tommorow I'm hoping to go to one of the Glasgow salsa nights - it's been ages since I did any dancing in Glasgow apart from Sunday afternoons. Unfortunately, it looks like there's going to be two events clashing this week, which no doubt will split the crowd... :(

Had a nice long walk in a park with hubby in the afternoon, then went to Glasgow to meet up with his friends for a Greek feast :D. Then we searched for salsa... The first club hubby and I went to had a DJ playing to an empty floor (most regulars at this club must have been at the Cuban congress in Wales). Felt sorry for the DJ but there was no point in staying there, so went to another place. The floor was absolutely horrible, but at least I had some dances before we had to rush off to get our bus back to Edinburgh.

Sunday evening I'll be going to the Lounge (hope the number will start picking up). Not sure if I'll go to Glasgow for the Sunday social before that, do one of the workshops at Dance Base in Edinburgh, or just go for a walk (weather permitting).
After two disappointing nights, I just had to do a double shift of dancing - went to Glasgow for a couple of hours of Cuban fix and had a great time. Then got a bus back to Edinburgh for a couple of hours of crossbody fix and had a great time there too. Got a few compliments at both places, which was nice :D.

Terremoto

11-05-2007, 04:31 PM

Had a good weekend. I didn't go out on Friday night because I didn't think there would be many people out with the SF congress going on - that and I was still recovering from a cold.

Then saturday I spent the day mountain biking and then went out dancing!! Had a great night. I couldn't believe how many dancers were out. Normally on a congress weekend the local clubs here in Portland are dead :( but fortunately there were many great dancers out and I had a good time (I spoke with Snowdancer and he said he had been out five nights in a row!!)

sunday I relaxed - rested - I wanted to get completely over my cold before I started another week. Sunday night - I practiced some new patterns I learned off of a video and thats about it.

sagitta

11-05-2007, 04:43 PM

FRiday night - nice night out in the area. Got soem nice compliments. Nice variety of music...

Saturday - NYC to see "Wintuk" show with a friend

Sunday - the usual - work.

Terremoto

11-12-2007, 11:45 AM

I had an OK weekend :?

I tried to go out dancing friday night - went to two different venues but didn't even dance one song :cry: there was no one out. I had forgotten there was a big concert in town at a different venue and by the time I remembered (actually someone told me) it was too late to go there.

Saturday night also started out very slow. I was actually pretty frustrated - not very many people were at the club when I showed up. However, they all started trickeling in around 11:00 to 11:30. So it turned out to be a pretty good night!! I had a couple of really good dances with one of my favorite portland dancers :D not too many guys there to dance with so she even asked me a couple of times :D :D such a wonderful compliment.

Other than salsa - not much happened on my weekend. I am normally out kiteboarding, snowboarding, or mountain biking - however, not much of that is going on. Its too rainy to go out kiteboarding or mountain biking and there is not enough snow on the mountain to snowboard :( so I spent more time at home than usual :? (Come on snow!!! Start Piling up!!)

sagitta

11-15-2007, 10:28 AM

This upcoming weekend? Friday night - Syracuse...

This Saturday there is a latin dance in my town but it is 21+ so I'm not sure if I will go. THere definitely will be less people....

Terremoto

11-26-2007, 02:00 PM

So this weekend I decided to skip the seattle salsa congress. I didn't feel like driving three hours each way :?

So I mostly hung out. Went out dancing saturday night. I didn't think it would be very crowded because of the salsa congress - but there were definately enough dancers to dance with.

Sunday I went out snowboarding!! It was the first time on my board this season!! I was going stir crazy waiting for the snow. The snow was actually pretty bad - it was all fake snow - and very thin. But it felt good to be on my board.

sagitta

11-26-2007, 02:50 PM

This past weekend. Staying up late at night drinking and chatting. Not something I usually do but this was with my cousins so it was good. Taught some dancing to my cousins and siblings. Also went out Saturday night to Tapas in Rochester. It was good only because my cousins and siblings were there. A family weekend - a good one. :-)

Terremoto

11-28-2007, 02:41 PM

Should be a good weekend. Saturday I'm going cross country skiing and then sunday I am going to try down hill skiing for the first time :) I have been snowboarding for around 5 years or so - and I wanted to see what skiing was like. I bought a pair of skiis and boots on ebay on the cheap. So hopefully I won't break anything :D saturday night I'll go out dancing - its turned out to be a really great venue!!

MacMoto

11-29-2007, 11:16 AM

sagitta

11-29-2007, 01:08 PM

Semi-formal dance Friday night with live latin band from Rochester, NY.

Might arrange to start helping out a newbie to salsa....soon...maybe this weekend...have me a chance to foll around and try out moves from videoclips as I usually don't do too much of that on the danec floor. Also good way to focus on simple basics.

Jambo

11-29-2007, 09:26 PM

sweavo

11-30-2007, 04:35 AM

Hoping for a good one - this will be my last weekend salsa trip this year.
Jambo's Salsa Fix night on Friday, Prodigal on Saturday, SOS on Sunday. Woo hoo! :banana:

If you see a little dancing sunflower, ask for a dance! :D

Wow, you've got some energy!! :shock:

I hope you have a good one too :D Will try my best to get it off to a good start for you ;)

We're aiming to get there about 8:30pm, so I reckon I'll make it by 10:40! See you there!

Jambo

11-30-2007, 09:12 AM

Terremoto

12-14-2007, 11:33 AM

I'm hoping to spend my weekend skiing. Still waiting on snow - maybe tonight :D

SnowDancer

12-14-2007, 02:00 PM

:lol: Supposed to be several new inches falling tonight.

I was at SkiBowl last Saturday, and it wasn't bad at all.

MacMoto

12-14-2007, 02:21 PM

Tonight's party is hubby's last gig in Scotland - the removal people are coming take away his CDs (and other things) next week.

MacMoto

12-16-2007, 05:54 AM

Tonight's party is hubby's last gig in Scotland - the removal people are coming take away his CDs (and other things) next week.
Friday night was great - I hope hubby will find gigs in Japan... he's such a brilliant DJ. I couldn't stop dancing :banana: :banana:

sirenita

12-18-2007, 05:09 PM

Went out on on Saturday night- attendance was low, but I still had fun despite.
Someone showed me how to CHa-cha! I've never done that before- so it was fun, and I had several fun dances with nice people :D
I still have a feeling of contentment about it

sagitta

12-20-2007, 12:25 PM

Friday night - SOBs in NYC. Live band. ok music...a little too crowded...left early. Think I mentioned this somewhere else, but my night was made by giving this girl who didn't know how to dance two consecutive dances as I knew it was her birthday. She rated the dance as her "first", over prom night and other dances that she had been to - her words: "This is the first time I have danced".

Saturday night. Family sort of dance in New Jersey. Did some bachata and cha cha cha. Some hustle and then just moves and people really did not know how to dance. Some nice compliments.

sagitta

12-20-2007, 12:26 PM

sirenita

12-20-2007, 02:03 PM

I looked for a cha-cha-cha love thread but didn't see one..
Watching/Listening before, I was very ambivalent towards it-
But.. oh is it up on the list to learn now!

I love the swooping/tip-toe-ness! 8) :D

SnowDancer

12-22-2007, 03:59 AM

Cool! Another cha-cha lover. Will you be at Mambo Lounge this weekend?

I started this weekend early, going to salsa class on Thursday, then dancing afterwards until past midnight. Friday, I went snowboarding, then went dancing afterwards. And Saturday night, I'm going dancing again; and then maybe snowboarding again on Monday.

It's a good thing I'm pretty old so I don't have to worry so much about wearing myself out. :) (It's like how you're more willing to abuse an old car than a brand-new one.)