- June 1: Friday night contra dance
June 1 a couple of things happened. My roommate left town for the weekend (sad, but she's going to a circus, so that's all right), my friend Terry came over to stay for a few days (hooray for not loneliness!) and my friend Becca and her girlfriend Caitlin came down from Cooperstown to stay for a bit (Becca for two months, Caitlin for two days). Very exciting times. Terry, Becca, Caitlin, and I went over to Bayou for a lovely dinner (and it was pouring rain out! I got soaked!), and then everyone but Terry (and, I suppose, Marie and Scott, who were in Philly by this point) went contra dancing.
Oh, contra dancing. Why are you such a weirdly awesome thing?
A thing about contra dancing is that my skills from blues and swing don't transfer nearly as well as I'd like them to. I would really like to be able to waltz like a pro, because, after all, I can counter balance AND I can count to three. What more could there possibly be? But I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be able to move slightly differently than I do for this.
More importantly, Becca made a friend, Caitlin got flirted with, and a good time was had by all. This was, of course, augmented by the awesomeness of Glen Echo Park, which is just an amazing place hands down. Becca totally geeked out about the public/private partnerships and the community involvement and the learning and the civil rights protests and the arts spaces and the carousel and the Chitaqua and also Clara Barton and bandages? I don't know, it's a pretty cool space.
- June 2: Brunch in Columbia Heights, successful acquisition of hiking boots, and a baseball game
The morning of the second dawned just as lovely as the first had been rainy.
