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| Bert and Deanie Burgess |
Aloha Dancers and Readers. First, Lani and I want to thank Deanie and Bert Burgess for inviting us as their guests to the Aiea Ballroom Dance Association 64th Anniversary Dance, last night at the Ala Wai Palladium. Deanie had two front row seats reserved for us in the Diamond Head Ballroom, also. That's the ballroom where all the action took place and was filled with dancers. The Ewa Ballroom was practically empty except for a few dancers dancing to the music that was piped in from the Diamond Head Ballroom.
My main squeeze and I got to the Palladium a little after 7 PM. The parking lot was filled to capacity. "Big crowd tonight," we thought. Fortunately a golfer just pulled out of a space fronting the Palladium. "Lucky for us!"
The entrance to the anniversary dance was the Ewa Ballroom where we checked in at the reception table and received tickets for refreshments, and chance to win door prizes. I didn't get the names of the ladies at the reception table but I was able to get a photo shot of them.
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| Joe Martel and me |
Bert Burgess music was resonating throughout the Diamond Head Ballroom and dancers were moving to the rhythm of the music as Lani and I searched for empty seats. Found a couple of seats near the dressing room. Then a familiar face wheeled near us to say "hello". It was an old friend who I met in 2001 and who published the mini dance magazine 'Dancing In The Dark' until he went into publishing blogs about dancing on the Internet. A few minutes later, Deanie greeted us and led us to the seats she had reserved for us. (Thank you, Deanie).
Bert's music was going on non-stop...smooth ballroom and hot Latin. Everyone appeared to be having fun dancing. To add to the fun dancing there was a 'Snow Ball Ice Breaker' where the men from ABDA gathered in the middle of the floor and then break out to pick ladies to dance with. After a short spell, the men went to pick other ladies in the audience to dance with while the ladies who were already on the floor picked other men to dance with. I got into the mix when a young lady selected me to dance with her. It was short and nice.
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| Kay Yahiku |
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| Annie Ferguson and Deanie Burgess |
EmCee for the event was Kay Yahiku. ABDA President Deanie Burgess gave a short welcome speech, and everyone were back to dancing until it was the call for lucky number door prizes. There were many prizes and every number called was present and awarded. Annie Ferguson (a go-getter who helps nearly every dance clubs on Oahu in ticket sales) was awarded, too.
The line of people to pick up refreshments was long. Gotta give credit to those ABDA kitchen helpers for preparing and distributing the boxes of ono meals.
Back to dancing in the ballroom and someone subbed for Bert as music player. Bert was dancing with his main squeeze Deanie.
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| Roxie and Lani
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Lani was having a chat with Roxie Kaino out on the lanai. So that gave me the time to go paparazzi.
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| Kay and Deanie |
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| Kathy |
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| Linda, Diana, and Snow Jade |
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| Bert and Kay |
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| Ed and Candy |
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| Gordon |
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| Mae and James |
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| Joan |
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| Marsha and Roy |
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| Ravi and Synthia |
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| Annie and Stanley |
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| Linda and Snow Jade |
We thanked our host Deanie for inviting us as her guests before leaving for home. It was an enjoyable night of dancing for us. It was good to see people having fun dancing the Hustle, West Coast Swing, the smooth and Latin dances. There may have been another style of dancing. It resembled the Polka because dancers were hopping to the music. In any case, Bert's variety of music were on spot at the Aiea Ballroom Dance Association 64th Anniversary Dance. AWESOME!
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| Deanie and Lani |
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| Deanie and me |
Aloha and Happy Dancing, everyone.
