Even the Lucky Star waiters were amused by our …. What can I call it? ENTHUSIASM. Was it the wine, women or the wide open Wednesday night dance floor? Who knows. Details below.
TUESDAY NIGHT (free!) LINE DANCING - Tuesday November 16th, free line dance night at Point Point brought in 16 energetic line dancers, including newcomers Jona, Vicki and Yiying. Nitz introduced us to another line dance that being done at the 32nd Street Dance Group, a new set of steps for 'Asi Asi' which involves lots of dizzying clockwise spinning. Besides delicious Point Point food, the night was full of high energy as dancers went through over 15 line dances, some multiple times. They included "I Love The Nightlife", "September", "Simplemente", "Sway", "Tennessee Waltz", "Volare", and other line dances.
You can join the fun this coming Tuesday (November 23rd) at Point Point Joint, 916 E. 8th Street, National City, 6:30-9:00, when Nina will again lead us through fun line dances.
WEDNESDAY FILIPINO NIGHT at Lucky Star Restaurant on November 17th, had a ridiculously low number of dancers - only ten! There was lots of room on the floor - never more than 8 dancers on the floor at one time. DJ Eric was back along with the $6 cover charge. Around 7:30 there were six of us who knew each other, me, Bert Alota, Dione, Nita, and Jerry and his date Elenora. Jerry, Bert Alota and I were finalizing details of a time sharing plan to dance with the two ladies, when in walked two former Filipina fashion models, Rina formerly from Leyte and Naomi formerly from Baguio. Holy smoke! I was asking them to dance before they selected a table to sit. Luckily they picked the table next to us. And, luckily Rina was happy to dance with us guys. DJ Eric seemed to know just what to play. To Rina's delight, DJ Eric played lots of disco hustle like "You're the First, Last, My Everything." All three of the ladies were wonderfully easy to dance with. Elenora, formerly from Brazil, enjoyed "Lambada", and she even did well on the waltz line dance, never having seen it before. With basically no line dancers there, the only other line dance we did the steps to was "Coco Jamboo".
We're looking forward to this coming week's "Filipino Night". It will again be WEDNESDAY NIGHT (November 24th) in the LUCKY STAR RESTAURANT from about 6:30 to 9:30pm.
THURSDAY NIGHT DANCING AT JADE HOUSE. The Jade House Restaurant at 569 H Street, Chula Vista, had its 3rd Thursday night of dancing and karaoke on November 18th. Manager Vangie Mangune served up a delicious buffet dinner and snacks, dancing and karaoke for $10, from 6PM-nearly midnight. DJ RT kept the music going, in spite of a late arrival of line dance CDs. There was a lot of socializing among about 25 dancers who showed up, again including dancers from the 32nd Street group, Forever Young, Nina's Tuesday night line dancers, and other groups (see photos in photo albums).
Vangie said she might be open next Thursday night Nov 25th (THANKSGIVING DAY) for dinner at Jade House, but I do not have final info on that, so call ahead (619-426-5951).
PHOTOS:
First of all, from Lucky Star "Filipino Night" Wednesday Nov 17th, here's the lovely rollicking Rina and me dancing to "Disco Inferno".
Then, at Jade House Thursday night November 18th, we see Lita, Nitz, Divine, Beth and Nina's impromptu chorus line sing-along to a karaoke performance of the old song "Diana".
I put those plus 14 other photos from the past week in the Forever Young Group Photos section into the '2010 November' folder. For those of you who prefer the features of Google's Picasa Web Albums, and you who are non-Yahoo members, the November photos are also posted at
http://picasaweb.google.com/bertdonaldson/2010November#
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:
(Let me know what to add.)
Saturday, November 20, 2010, 6-11PM
"Jam Session" Food & Dance for San Diego Classic Lions Club.
at Loma Verde Rec Center, 1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista.
$15. DJ Mar Delavin. Remy expects over 100 people.
For tickets: Remy at 619-288-4507 or 619-474-8858
Tuesday November 23rd, 6:30-9pm, FREE line dancing at Point Point, 916 E. 8th St., Nat'l City
Wednesday November 24th, probably 6:30-9:30pm. Filipino Night at Lucky Star, 3893 54th St., San Diego. DJ Eric is there it's a $6 cover charge and 1 drink minimum. Otherwise, dance for 1 drink minimum.
Saturday, December 4th, 7PM-Midnight. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Dinner Dance. Infinity Dance Center, 4428 Convoy Street, #288, San Diego. DJ: Jonthan Lee, $30. For tickets: 858-336-8000 or 619-241-1630.
Saturday, December 11th, 5-11PM. Wilroc Christmas Party Dinner-Dance. Southwest Masonic Lodge, 1140 B Avenue, National City. DJ: Marlon of Las Vegas. $20. For tickets: Jun Ancho, 619-518-5315
Saturday, December 18th, 5:30-1AM (dinner at 7PM). 32nd Street Dance Group Holiday Celebration dinner dance. Fiesta Hall, 1770 Palm Avenue, Imperial Beach. DJ: Ron Cacha. No tickets at the door. $35. Tickets: Edith Donaldson, 619-224-3095.
WEEKLY DANCING EVENTS:
(I do not regularly go to most of these. Other than the Tuesday-Thursday ones that are also described above, I wouldn't know if the event is cancelled on any particular day.)
Sundays mid-day, 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.
Sundays late afternoon, Ballroom & Swing Dance Club, National City Middle School, 1701 D Avenue, Nat'l City. Ballroom & line dance lessons & practice, plus snacks & coffee for $7. Nelson & Tess, 619-817-9992
Tuesdays - Point Point, see above.
Wednesdays - Lucky Star, see above.
Wednesday karaoke and some dancing 9pm-1am at Jasmine Restaurant on Convoy Street, hosted by Kristina, the Filipina karaoke queen.
Thursdays - Jade House, see above.
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 Group dances 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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