I do believe my body had finally recovered from the Dance Marathon! For those of you who weren't able to make it, this is quite the accomplishment.But it was worth it! We were able to raise around $2,500 for people in the church who are in need of a little financial assistance.
The dancing adventure began at the church outside under the big white tent. Here's the thing about the tent, though. It is up for the entire summer, which means grass does a fairly lousy job of growing for a few months because of two things: lack of sunlight and lack of rain. The former - no biggy. The latter - not so much. Dust. There was lots and lots of dust.And it was humid (summer in Jersey - no surprise there). So shortly after we began our super fun dancing adventure, we were sweaty (ew) and covered in dust (or more like mud - double ew). My feet were super dirty, and I was not the only one.
I was impressed by the enthusiasm of all the participants. Mike and Joanna had pretty spectacular outfits (I'll post pictures later this week), and Lizette and Erik definitely held their own in that department.
At 10:30pm we moved inside to the air-conditioned gym and danced under the disco ball. Or, I guess to be technically correct, the mirror ball (but that really doesn't sound as cool). We lasted until about 2am. At that point, most of us were pretty much dead on our feet, although the couple that won looked like they could go for hours. All the young people though - not so much. We had one person already sound asleep on the couch and it appeared as though more were to follow.It was a fantastic time, though. And special thanks to Linda (for food) and Mr. Candy (yay DJ!). And thanks to all of you who participated or sponsored!
