Minnesota Square Dance Loons

I traveled with Bob and Carol Mulholland to Wenatchee, WA.  Johnny and Lydia Preston handed me to them in California while visiting the Salton Sea RV Park and SPA Resort.  We all enjoyed a nice visit at the Salton Sea with three other square dance couples.  But, soon it was time to return to their home in Washington state.  Their cat Buddy checked me out–that was scary, but I passed the test and we became buddies!

Bob and Connie are inviting all of you to visit Spokane, Washington, in 2012 for the 61st National Square Dance Convention. (I’m even hoping I get back to Spokane for that big party!)

At the club dance on Saturday, January 22, 2011, they gave me to a fellow club member, Patti Schroeder, who also lives in Spokane. And can you believe this?  She thanked them for giving her the bird!  Oh my!  Can’t wait to see what happens in her square dance world!  Talk soon!

Alice here,  checking in again.  I have been traveling with Lydia & Johnny Preston for the past month.  I met a fellow friend, Daisy Duck, at the Preston’s home in Fultondale, Alabama.  Daisy invited me to swim in their pool; much to our surprise, it was closed so we surfed the waves in their hot tub!  

I went to a couple more square dance classes at the Wheel Arounds and  club dances.  November 1, Lydia and Johnny started their drive to Niland, California, for the winter with me chilling in their back seat.  I watched the miles go by munching on Goldfish crackers & sipping on juices while we drove through Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, and on to Oklahoma.   We stopped to visit relatives and spend the night in Chocktaw, OK . On we went the next morning through Texas and stopped  in Gallop, New Mexico, for the night.  We stopped and saw the meteor crater in Arizona.  That was really something to see.

Johnny did not have any square dances to call on our cross- country drive.  We arrived in Temecula, California, and visited with Johnny’s mother and sister for a few days.  We had a day at the Temecula Park with the relatives, and we ran into a thousand of my duckie cousins.  That was great to see them again.  We drove out to the desert where the Prestons have their winter haven at the Fountain of Youth Resort.  Johnny is the resident caller and Lydia is the resident nurse.  We set up housekeeping for a day and took a walk around the park.  It was very nice.  I tried to hide from Lydia in one of the palm trees, but she found me.

I went to the FOY dance lessons and club night a couple of times. At my last dance with them, Johnny asked me to do a singing call at our Hobo dance.  

See me?  I’m a caller!!!

That was on November 17, and I also met the nice couple, Bob and Connie Mulholland, from Wenatchee, WA.

They are the Secretary for 2012 Registration & Housing Committee for the 61st National Square Dance Convention; I’ll be traveling with them to Washington.  It was a fun cross-country-sightseeing trip I took with Lydia and Johnny.  Now I will be a back-seat traveler (not driver!) with the Mulhollands.

I went to the Wheel Arounds Square Dance club on 10-19 and helped Connie Dutton teach 17 new dancers.   I must say, this group has a lot of potential.  Connie’s really nice also …. she greeted me with a kiss.