April 2023 update.

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Friday April 7th was Good Friday and as is our practice, there was no dance held that night. 

The following Friday on the 14th we had something a little different with an Easter Egg Hunt.

We had no special dress up but Jo K and her daughter wore Easter theme hair accessories at the front table and the hall was decorated.

The kids where given little baskets while adults got small Easter bags, to collect tiny chocolate eggs placed around the hall on chairs and window sills. Mia won the closest guess for the number of Easter eggs in the jar.

Jo L was away but sent along some hand made Easter egg decorated biscuits and Sandy volunteered in the kitchen.

The next Friday, 21st April coincided with the National Square Dance Convention in Adelaide, SA. While Matt and family were enjoying the Convention, Rob ran recordings of Matt so we could still dance. Matt had recorded live from a few previous Fridays. 

We had a really fun night. This was the second time we have danced to recordings of Matt. Recording levels and balance between Matt's voice and the music were much better than our first go. It was like Matt was in the room and had us laughing when a number of his comments while we danced matched up again with who was on the floor and a few of us responded like we could engage with him.


Friday 28th Matt was back with us. 

Due to hand luggage weight restrictions on his flight, he had taken out the club member list book and forgotten to put it back in his laptop bag. This means our member draw was not drawn and will now be next week May 5th. 

May 5th will also be our annual Heart Dance fund raiser. 

Dress in red or with a heart theme.

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