The quest was on to find the perfect A. Something that EGG wouldn't guess and something I wanted to do which immediately cancelled out abseiling. I thought about the Art Gallery (boring--not the gallery, but the idea was hardly original). I saw that the Lions were playing Port Adelaide but we were in middle of a cold snap and I wasn't that keen.
I'd been seeing all these snippet about the Festitalia and was keen to go. I got onto their website and there it was, the answer that I was looking for--Almade Tango. EGG and I have a bit of history with Latin dancing. I dragged him along for some classes last year and we were truly terrible. There were only two people in our class (EGG and me) and still they couldn't teach us how to dance. Well here was our second chance.
All excited, I printed the info off the website and put it in a bright yellow envelope. SSS (Sometimes Sweet Sixteen-year-old) was most impressed with my ingenuity (the event, not the fact I can print off from a website). I held out all day Saturday and presented him with the envelope on Sunday morning. The look on his face was priceless.
"Have you forgotten how bad we are at this?"
"No, we'll be fine. That bloke mustn't have been a very good teacher. We'll be great!"
After a delayed start we finally arrived at the RNA for Festitalia and our Saturday (Sunday) Night Fever moment. Well Saturday Night Fever never arrived. There were so many people--you've got to hand to Brissie people, they turn up in droves to support an event.
We had foolishly waited until peak time to arrive. We lined up for 20 minutes for food, we wouldn't line up for 20 minutes for coffee. So a bit thirsty and full of lasagne that we ate sitting on the grass (that was too close to the men's toilet) we had a look at the program that we had bought. Almade Tango was not programmed for another two hours!!!
Just then a cold wind kicked in, blowing our food plates over. I took it as a sign, and after depositing said plates in the nearest bin, decided that we might give Almade Tango a miss.
A is not for Almade Tango--I should have taken him abseiling!
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