Swing Dancing at the Big Fork Inn

During the winter here there isn't much to do on weekend evenings so I thought I would come up with something. I found out that there is a really awesome little lodge nearby where they have swing dancing and thought I would take some people to check it out. For the last few months now I have been coming here with groups of 8-12 of us from the YWAM base to have a fun night with live music and swing dancing. It's been a blast, and we are all getting a lot better. I figured I would show off some pictures.

This is the band that plays... "The Company Brass"... they are actually really nice guys who play for three hours together every Friday and Saturday night just like clock work. They play pretty much the same songs every single week but they are awesome. They are seriously amazing musicians who play great swing music and a little bit of Latin stuff as well as the occasional Waltz which I love.

This is the crew that happened to come this week, a rather large bunch of folks. We end up bringing pretty much the same four or five guys every week because the rest of the guys at the base don't know what they are missing out on and we have been having a ton of fun. Every week different girls come though because they all want to come and so I am having to make them take turns. One of the things that has been fun is bringing different people from the different schools here on the base. Three of us here are from the DTS (discipleship training school), two of the girls are from the School of Dance here, and six of us are from the SBS (school of biblical studies... that I am in).

Here I am, dancing... This is my friend Erica, she is from the school of dance and is a really awesome dancer. She has been one of the girls who comes quite regularly... so she is one of the girls who is a better dancer. She really loves coming and has been one of my best recruiters to get more people.

This is my good friend Jeridan from the SBS. He's one of my classmates, a wonderful young man... seriously a great man whom I absolutely love. Yeah, I can't say enough good things about this guy. This is Chrissy from the DTS, a sweet girl that I just recently got to know a bit better and she is sweet as can be. It's funny to be here at the base with 200+ people. They are all so wonderful but unfortunately you don't get the chance to get to know them as much as you would like in the busyness of everything. Jeridan is an absolute champion though, I truly enjoy his presence.

This is what the dance floor looks like from the side... it's kind of small and the room gets crowded rather quickly but Fridays and Saturday nights have presented themselves to be quite enjoyable now that I found this place. Perhaps by the end of the year I will be pretty darn good at it.