bluegrass and bellydancers

we´ll update this with pictures as soon as we can, but here´s the story:

so, on our first day here, after arriving late/early the night before, wayne showed up for the orientation telling me that there was a mother´s day party that his ´parents´had invited him to that their family was having that night. he suggested that i bring my mandolin and he would have his and he would give me a lesson. my first consern was how late it would last. i was tired and i knew that i needed to sleep. he assured me that we would not be out late as his ´parents´ are older.
that was all I knew when i showed up at 8pm to ride with them to the restaurant. we were the first ones there, and had to wait quite a while for the rest of the ´family´, which turned out to be the rotary club.
by about 9:30 everyone had shown up and we started to order our dinner. i decided to let go of any plans of going to sleep any time soon and just enjoy myself.
food didn´t start to arrive until after 10, at which point there becan talk of flamenco dancers that were coming on soon (we were in a Spanish ´tapas´restaurant). how fun will that be?!
at 10:45 the word on the street was that the dancers would be coming out in 15 minutes.

45 minutes later, the music came on and three scantily-clad bellydancers came out. (any of you who were at the international club´s international night, think about those dancers, only these moved even more like snakes.) all of the men were enthralled, and all of the women were laughing at their husbands. they danced for 25 minutes, or so. when they left, wayne got up and put on quite a show for the restaurant with his mandolin and harmonica, singing old faves like ´la cucaracha´and ´amazing grace´. the crowd loved him and sang along.
as wayne sat down surrounded by smiles and pats on the back, the belly dancers came out for another set.
as my dad always says, you can sleep when you´re old.
i´ll get pictures up as soon as i get them. wayne wants to tell his impressions of the story too.

coming soon...