Beautiful Ladies - Few Guys Last Week

Hello Dancers,  
   What a difference a week makes!  My eyes and camera were in overload Oct 26 & 27th.  At Lucky Star Restaurant's weekly 'Filipino Night' this past Wednesday October 27th, there were twice as many people as were there the previous week.  My eyes were dazzled by the beautiful women in beautiful clothing, so much that I didn't realize till the end of the night that there were only 5 guys and 15 beautiful ladies on our side of the room.  When I came to my senses at closing time, it dawned on me that some ladies had left early, disappointed that there were so few guys.  One lady even vented on DJ Eric.  Most of the dancing duties fell on Chito and Bong.  As the evening progressed, some resourceful ladies began using the otherwise-useless blue admission tickets as permission slips to cut in on each other to dance with Chito.  Besides, Dion, even me and Mel got to dance more than we usually do.  
   As for the more mundane statistics of the night, DJ Eric, the one-man band, played good dance songs non-stop all night.  Between 6:45 and 9:30 he played 32 ballroom dance songs and 12 line dances.  The dancers' favorite of the night was the 'Swing Medley' which got about 35 dancers on the floor at 8:30.  Surprisingly, just before that 'Let's Twist Again' saw 30 twisters on the floor.  The disco hustle 'Heaven's What I Feel' - Wow!  Bong had Mona spinning so much that even I was dizzy (see photo below).  Among line dances, 'Cumbia Semana' had 30 people dancing with about half doing ballroom cumbia, and 'Tennessee Waltz' had 28 dancers.       
   We're looking forward to this coming week's "Filipino Night". It will again be WEDNESDAY NIGHT (November 3rd) in the LUCKY STAR RESTAURANT from 6 to 9:30pm.      

   LINE DANCE TUESDAYS (free!) - Tuesday October 26th was an amazing preview of the next day.  18 beautiful ladies came to the event, plus me and Bong (see photos in the Photo album).  It was a once in a lifetime experience for me, and my head was spinning.  Besides dancing, the big event was Belen's birthday party.  Besides Belen, I got to be withNina, Nitz & Crystal, Beth, Carmen, Divine, Edith, Gloria, Ledy, Lee, Luna, Nedy, Penny, Racquel, Rei, Sol and Zeny.  And, we enjoyed dancing to great songs like "Tennessee Waltz", "Sex Bomb", "Asi Asi", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "Cumbia Semana", "Volare", and "Shalala Lala".   
   You can join the fun this coming Tuesday (November 2nd, election night) at Point Point Joint, 916 E. 8th Street, National City, 6:30-9:00, when Nina will again lead us through fun line dances.

PHOTOS:  
  First of all, from Line Dance Tuesday Oct. 26th at Point Point, Bong the King of Hustle breaks out from "Tennessee Waltz" to dance disco hustle with Nitz, the former Queen of Line Dance.        

Then, at Lucky Star on Oct 27th, here again is Bong, this time spinning Mona at 78RPM to a disco hustle.   




    I put those plus 31 other photos from the past week in the Forever Young Group Photos section into the '2010 October' folder.  For those of you who prefer the features of Google's Picasa Web Albums, and you who are non-Yahoo members, the October photos are also posted at

http://picasaweb.google.com/bertdonaldson/2010October#

 You can download photos from both locations.  Using another Picasa feature, you can order prints on-line out of a Picasa album from several print providers including Walgreens without the need to download & upload photo files to & from your computer. To see the photo file names in Picasa Web, left click on the 1st photo, then left click on 'more info' under 'Photo Information' .


   FYI, this Yahoo Email Group's Home Page is at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foreveryoungsd


UPCOMING DANCES:

Tuesday November 2nd, 6:30-9pm, FREE line dancing at Point Point, 916 E. 8th St., Nat'l City

Wednesday November 3rd, 6:00-9:30pm, FOREVER YOUNG NIGHT (as part of Filipino Night) at Lucky Star, 3893 54th St., San Diego.  $6 cover charge and 1 drink minimum.

Saturday, November 6, 2010, 6-11PM
Dinner-Dance, Fil-Am Community of St. Rita's Church,
5125 Churchward Street, San Diego CA 92114
$20.  DJ:  Mar Delavin.  Contact:  Bert Alota

Saturday, November 6, 2010, 5-10PM
Dinner, Live Entertainment & Dancing, Santa Sophia Knights of Columbus
Sta Sophia Church - Prendergast Hall, 9800 San Juan St., Spring Valley
DJ: Ray Paulino.  Contact:  Leo Gatus 619-670-5709 

Saturday, November 13, 2010, 6:30-11:30PM,
Iloilo Association of San Diego County Inc. Jam Session
Loma Verde Recreation Center
1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista
$20 donation. DJ: Mar Delavin.

Saturday, November 13, 2010, 7-11PM,
It Takes 2 Dance Party with dance lesson from 7-8PM.
Infinity Dance, 4428 Convoy Street.
$7.   DJ:  Jonathan Lee

Saturday, November 20, 2010, 6-11PM
"Jam Session" Food & Dance for San Diego Classic Lions Club.
at Loma Verde Rec Center, 1420 Loma Mane, Chula Vista.
$15.  DJ
For tickets:  Remy at 619-288-4507 or 619-474-8858


OTHER DANCING EVENTS:
  (I do not regularly go to these, so I wouldn't know if the event is cancelled on any particular day.)   
     Sundays, Filipino-American Senior-Junior Golden Years Association, dancing and food, at K-P Hall, 200 E. Plaza Blvd., National City.  $7.  Dancing more-or-less from noon till 3pm, featuring Harana Band and recorded dance music during breaks.   
   Wednesday karaoke and some dancing 9pm-1am at  Jasmine Restaurant on Convoy Street, hosted by Kristina, the Filipina karaoke queen.
   Fridays mid-day, roughly 10am-2pm, Fil-Am Veterans Assn and Senior Center, 2926 Market St., food, dancing and karaoke for around $6.
   Friday night dancing:  These 3 begin variously between 7 or 8pm, usually with dance lessons early, and dancing till about 11pm:  (1) the 32nd Street Dance Group on the Naval Station.  (2) the Poway Group ("The Dance Place") dances mostly ballroom at the Growing Place Montessori School, 13242 Pomerado Road, Poway.  $8.  Contact (858) 748-5790.    (3) the RMX Groupdances mostly ballroom in Studio FX, 9499 Kearny Villa Road near Mira Mar Road;  $8; contact is Esta at 858-386-2789.  And, there's a 4th one: (4) Red Hot Line Dancers.  They dance line dances for FREE every Friday in the senior center at 8460 Mira Mesa Blvd., from 7-9pm.  Contact is Rose Mata at 858-204-7454.
   Monday-Friday, roughly 9am-noon, Tooma Park Seniors, dance, eat, etc., under a cabana at Bay Terraces Park, 7449 Tooma Street, San Diego.  

Till we dance again, Bert

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