60th Square Dance Convention

We just finished attending the 60th National Square Dance Convention in Detroit, Michigan. They had approximately 3730 dancers. We are working on the 61st National as Secretary for the Registration Committee. While in Detroit we worked our registration booth to get those attending in Detroit to sign up for our convention in 2012 in Spokane. During the course of the convention our committee signed up about 400 dancers to come to Spokane. We now have about 3210 dancers already registered for 2012.

We also had some time to dance. We danced on Tuesday night to Jerry Story, Tony Oxydine, Ken Bower, and Gary Shoemake - all really great callers. We found that the afterparties - dances at 10:00 were the place to dance to lots of national callers all in one place.

We stayed at the Detroit Marriott Renassaince Center. We used their People Mover (a monorail) to get back and forth to the convention center. Sunday we drove back to the campground where the fifth wheel and Buddy were staying, loaded up and headed north. We'll be in Mackinac City today where we'll spend a couple of days.