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| This 70+ year-old woman killed it all night |
I think it all started as a joke. L's
coworker had been talking up a "hick" bar and so we had all decided to
put on out boots and plaid and go. The first awesome thing about this
bar is that it is about a half hour outside of Miami (of course). The next awesome thing is that the bar/club is
called Round Up and it is painted as a barn complete with stables and
horses painted on the side of it. As we walked up, some drunk guys in
cowboy boots stumbled out (it was 9pm). THEN, we saw the sign that is
was Ladies Night and we would be drinking free all night.
OMG, you guys! This was going to be amazing!!! And so hilarious, right?!
We
walked in to find a huge dance floor in the middle of the club with
"fence"/seating around it in the style of a corral. The country music
was bumping and people were dancing. Line dancing. Line dancing, you guys!!!! And
then the music changed and people paired off and did the cha-cha around
the "corral!" That's right, I just said "cha-cha around the corral."
Then, more line dancing! I didn't even know so many different line
dances existed.
This was a scene,
you guys. Like a huge country western dancing scene. The best part of
the scene (if I had to choose just one thing), was the people. There
were all types of people - young, old, fat skinny, black, white, Asian,
Latino (okay, mostly white) - and they all had one thing in common: they
effing killed at country western dancing.
I
honestly did not see this coming, but I think I've found my calling,
and I'm pretty sure it's not medicine. I'm going to be a country western
dancer, bitches! But seriously, I loved this scene so much. I honestly
had no idea this world existed (or, more accurately, how effing awesome
it is); I felt like Baby in Dirty Dancing when she stumbles upon
the staff dance party (you know, because she "carried a watermelon") and
discovers there is an entire world of super rad dancing out there.
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| Baby carried a watermelon into the staff lounge and discovered some dirty dancing |
The only problem with my new calling is that everyone was really good and
somehow knew all the songs/dances. This actually blew my mind
(continuously through the course of the night, since there are so many songs/dances
out there). This makes joining in kinda hard because it's pretty
obvious if you don't know the steps during a line dance. Especially if
you're surrounded by professional country western dancers (okay, maybe
they weren't all that good, but it definitely felt like it).
Don't worry guys, I still jumped right in and joined the dance.
Best. Night. Ever.
