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It's interesting--I'm not taking pictures or carrying a camera, but so many others are.

I'll hook people up with some of the webbed pictures later on, there's some great ones. And some blogs that run for pages per day, rather than my few paltry sentences. And they have photo feeds. I'm SO not an alpha geek at this time...one guy has Skype set up, and is even doing all his phone calls over the hotel wireless.

Fascinating people, as dancers often are, ranging from dance teachers / reconstructors to friends of the bride (her mother) to vintage music enthusiasts who happened to stumble upon dancing.

Stories: For every entry, there are a hundred stories, things said over meals, the meals themselves and the various recipies, the views one encounters, the little touches--going to the Jazz club in a historic trolley (1962), coming back from the nature preserve carrying little paper candle lanterns on the ends of sticks, not for our vision but so no-one would run us over, the games one plays in a freeform mazurka quadrille, the dances themselves learned (the Czech dance track is pricelessly historic, specifying what area each dance comes from, what your basic step looks like, what you would be wearing (age dependent!) and what your hand positions are. (all of these dances are very stylistically different, even if from villages only 5 miles apart.))

And of course, moments in the dance themselves. The crowd ranges from beginners (who have taken dance lessons, so they have some clue) to expert teachers, and in general is excellent. And well dressed. And danc--vintage social dance--is such a wonderful conversation of history and socialness and movement and ettiquete, connecting each other in varous ways. The ages range from 25 to 80, with a few youth thrown in (a very cute 10 year old who loves to dance now--I was teaching him Lindy Charleston kick last night.)

So I'll find access to a few of those blogs and picture sites and let you see them...
after I go dance some more.