International Dance Party

After dinner on Monday night, the assembled contingent of Americans, Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, and Spaniards came together to party all night long.  What a joyous event!  I commented to a few of the people as we were dancing the night away how amazing it was to be partying with people from all over the world.  Life affords us only a few opportunities like this one and we always need to be appreciative of them.  Thank you, God!

My friend Chad and I once talked about an article that he had read in the newspaper.  It was a critique of a particular band´s performance in a concert.  His thought was, ¨Writing about music is like dancing about architecture!¨ His point was valid - why do people feel compelled to use one method of media to describe another?  The music speaks for itself.  It doesn´t need anyone writing about it in order to encapsulate the moment.  The fact that he compared it to using dance to express buildings was a humorous comparison.

Following on this, I have to apologize for using words to describe dance.  Maybe it´s not the best method of conveying what was happening during that night.  Now that we've returned to Milwaukee I can post these photos.  Will photographs do justice to the different nationalties gathered, the different cultures expressed in the music, and the different styles of dance?  I can only hope that you can feel it after reading these words and seeing these photos...