Ships and Salsa

Saturday was Deb's birthday of course and it just so happened that the EMC Latin Leadership Interest Team (ELLIT) was sponsoring a "Salsa Cruise" in Boston Harbor that night. Well, since we've been taking all these dance lessons it seemed like a great opportunity to bust some moves! A couple from our class - Gary and Judy - joined us for the trip into Boston. They own Vaillancourt Folk Art and make amazing figurines of all kinds.

We managed to find a parking spot in Boston and make our way to the dock and the boat. The boat was actually really nice - it was really nicely decorated and very large. There were two decks and the top deck had an opening that looked over the dance floor. We found a table and watched the people come on board. There were a few people I knew from EMC but it turned out that this was not exclusive to us. This is a weekly cruise and apparently quite popular. We grabbed a plate of food from the buffet, which was very good, and waited for things to get rockin'. We didn't have to wait very long. They fired up the music and we hit the floor. They played a lot of actual Salsa speed music which is very fast. Ironically, as the music gets faster, you do less complicated steps so it wasn't very difficult. We were also able to do our rumba and Cha-Cha's when it slowed down a little. They even threw in some popular hip hop style songs that were fun too. The dance floor was very very hot and I was embarrassingly drenched from the effort. We had to go out on deck to cool off at one point.

Another thing that was heating up the dance floor was the girl who was sitting at our table. She was a tiny thing who was poured into a dress. Here name was Reena and she was from St. Petersburg - Russia! When she got out on the dance floor, Gary and I joked that we felt this strange compulsion to open up our wallets and look for 1's. As we were dancing, a circle formed on the dance floor of the type where each person goes out in the middle and shows a couple of moves. Well, this girl went out and didn't stop. Seconds later, Deb goes out and joins her and they both practically set the place on fire. Muy Caliente!

Anyway, we had a blast despite being way too old for this kind of thing. Our knees and feet paid the price on the walk back to the parking garage - but we'll probably do it again...