Dinner & Dancing

After our rousing game of Dutch Shuffleboard (which is what Google tells us was the game Lotte taught us to play), dinner was next on the agenda.  This is a largish hotel full of two types of people - young Americans and old Spaniards.  I'm not sure the old Spaniards are really thrilled with this American invasion of their quiet seaside holidays!

Dinner was a buffet - which I think the kids enjoyed getting to pick their own food for once.  Will was delighted to see they had rice pudding, which we had at the Bon Voyage dinner, and I saw they had albóndigas (meatballs) as well, which we had at the dinner too.  The one odd thing was we had to pay for water, which caused some confusion because the bottles were already on the table.  We were quite happy to have been the first group to come in when dinner opened at 7:30 because in short order the line became very long.  But we hurried through dinner to get on to the next part - dancing!

In the basement (which is apparently a disco at some times), we watched a group of traditional Catalan dancers perform 4 traditional dances for us.  It was interesting (to me at least) to think about what traditional American dances we have, because I couldn't think of any other than the macarena and I can't imagine that being a tourist type event :)

After the four dances, the fun REALLY started because they invited the kids on to the dance floor to learn some of the dances we had seen.  They started with the Saldana, and most of our kids got up to join in the fun, partnering with the professionals.  Of course we have two ballerinas and at least two Fame castmembers with us, so this group can dance!  They were just having a blast, learning the dances, switching partners.  Even Mr. Tang danced with the group.  I just couldn't take enough pictures and video!  I think you will enjoy the photos and video - not the best quality but the best I could do with the lighting :)

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And now for some pictures :)

Lotte, Queen of Dutch Shuffleboard

Fruit juice blend while watching shuffleboard

Traditional Saldana dancers

Traditional dancers

Traditional Dancers

Learning the dance

Louisa and Tamie learning from the professionals

Louisa opening her birthday cards from us and her family

Learning dances

Wyeth and Cami dancing

The look says it all :)

Second dance, weaving between partners

Will and Louisa showing the way

Lotte and the girls after the dancing