Dance competition finals
Topic: dance
The dance competition finals were last night (Friday, June 9), held in a packed house. There were eleven judges, most of them being local celebrities, but also two from the Miss Iowa pageant that our teacher had scored. No pun intended!

The dancers who did lots of "wow" moves–drops, dips, flips–got lots of points. Kat and I have a much smoother style. Actually, Johnny wanted us in there because he wanted to show that salsa could be done in many different ways. While I was a tad disappointed to not have been named in the top five, I know that we danced as well as we have before. And what topped the evening was the fact that one couple from the audience came over afterwards and said that what we had done was what salsa was all about, and that the audience was "breathless" waiting to see what we’d do next. We put a lot of passion into our dancing. We’ve seen on the dance programs on TV that the crowd likes the flash moves, but we’re not built for that. So, we do what we’re good at and leave it at that. We seem to have our share of fans, and hey, we’re dancing.