Valentine's Day

This weekend for Valentine's Day the ballroom dance company held a Valentine's Gala. We had to perform at it, help set up and take down. We could take a date if we wanted to actually go to the Gala or we could just show up for the performance. They needed my truck to take some stuff over to were the Gala was being held so I ended up helping most of the afternoon. I went with Karen which was wonderful. I had lots of fun. We had dinner and got pictures which was kind of awkward by the way because our director was taking the pictures and he told us how to pose for the pictures. Then we performed. I danced in Opener, Singing in the Rain, and Quickstep. I was pretty nervous because it was my first time dancing Singing in the Rain and Quickstep. They are both feature pieces so Mark was really getting after me to get the dances down really well. I felt like I did well on both of them so that is good. After we performed they just had dancing and which was fun. The only problem was that I had to help take stuff back after the Gala was over and I didn't want to be there all night so I started cleaning things up at 10 pm. I felt bad because I basically just left Karen while I cleaned up. So I got frustrated with a lot of other ballroom people because after the Gala they just left and didn't help. I was trying to clean up costumes but people had left them all over the place and wouldn't clean them up. I had some one go get Toni's car so Karen could go home while I finished cleaning up. I finally got down around midnight. It really sucked. But afterward a group of people came over to my house and we watched a movie, or at least turned one on while we took a nap. Overall it was a good day for me. It was really nice to be able to spend the evening with Karen and just enjoy her company. It was probably the best Valentine's I have ever had.