In case you were wondering where I've been for the last week, I'm just chillin' like a villain in Victoria. You know how I be. Kirsten's cat, Thatcher, and I are having a great time now that we have been temporarily reunited.
I am super sore but oh-so fulfilled after spending the past weekend in Vancouver at LINDY BOUT! What's Lindy Bout, you ask? It's only the largest annual Lindy Hop competition event in Western Canada. NBD. This year was actually my first time attending this glorious event due to the fact that I no longer have to spend the end of April writing a billion finals and crying. Hallelujah. Lindy Bout was amazeballs. The music was fab, the people were super, and I was stoked to compete with not one, but two of my original choreographies for the Team and Short 'n' Sweet divisions. My tap shoes even made it onto the stage into for the first time in ~4 years which was pretty darn cool. I flung my hat somewhere backstage into Narnia, apparently, because it was nowhere to be found when I went to look for it after my number. In typical fashion, the stage felt 980767354095 times more slippery during my actual performance than it did during the floor trials. I almost died. OH WELL. I danced so hard this weekend, not that you would know it from what my broken fitbit recorded... However, I still won my weekend step count contest even though the darn thing only recorded half of my steps. I also didn't even get seriously stomped on until the end of the Sunday night dance, which is honestly the best time to obtain a majorly bruised ankle during a dance weekend.
That's not a shadow; that's a bruise. Ideally, I wouldn't get any body parts annihilated by a hard-heeled dance shoe, but if it has to happen... My feet also hate me now. The only thing that saved my muscles was my daily "stretch your freaking legs, Kate" alarm and the discovery of the hotel Jacuzzi with its miracle jets. Oh, sweet calf massage...
In other news, Kirsten and I ran our first Lindy Hop Switch class last night here in Victoria. It was a successful hour of making mistakes and figuring out fancy role switching moves. We both had a total blast sharing our knowledge with everyone who showed up and we are looking forward to our next workshop which will be taking place in Edmonton near the end of the summer! Check out our website here and the Facebook event here for more info! I promise I will only play "Switch" by Will Smith a reasonable amount of times...
Other than these exciting updates, I'm spending the next weekend back in Vancouver before flying back to the real world on Sunday. All good things must come to an end, I suppose. I've had a great vacation full of dancing, friends, and nearly getting crapped on by a bird. It's been a blast but I'll be glad to get into my regular routine again at home. Fewer birds in Edmonton, you know?
Until the next time!
Love and Swing-Outs!
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