1.2.3....5.6.7....

I gave andrew his birthday present yesterday!!! 
I had a few bags packed of yummy snacks/dinner, wine and champagne, and a great homemade berry pie for dessert. I also had ironed and layed out an outfit for andrew to change into when he got home! I was all dressed up in my dress and boots when he got home from work, and needless to say he was a little bit confused. (fyi, I told him I had something planned but didnt tell him what it was). So he showered, and changed, with me grinning ear to ear, so excited about what Im about to tell him.

As we were just about ready to leave, I told him the plan.  We are going over to our friends Brittany and Justins house (also, they have a black lab mix named Ida......and she is Tex's girlfriend. They LOVE each other, so thats nice, we get a nice double date, and tex gets to uh...play too! ) We are going to drink some wine and eat a light dinner, AND THEN............WE ARE GOING TO GO LEARN HOW TO SALSA DANCE!!!!!

I think Andrew was seriously surpirsed and thought I was kidding at first!  His face was blank for a few seconds! After telling him I was serious, he got totally into it.   If you all know Andrew, you know that he LOVES to dance!  Haha, so I thought it would be a totally fun thing for us to do, and the best part, its for 10 classes! So we get to go every thursday and learn more for 9 weeks!

After drinking a few bottles of wine, the 4 of us made our way to the dance hall....(while Tex and Ida played!)  We got there, and accompanied about 16 others!  We were all a tad nervous at first, but that went away quickly.  The instructors put us in a girls line opposite the boys line, with a large space in between.  We then proceeded to learn the first basic steps.  1.2.3.....5.6.7....  You say where is the 4 and the 8......they are pauses in the feet, so the instructors never say the number. Took me a while to figure that one out!  It was hilarious. So first we learned the basic step, and got to try it with our partner, AND THEN, they made the girls rotate...........which made me feel like I was in nordquest all over again (for all of you that remember what that was) Andrew and Justin werent very excited about the rotation, but I had a great time dancing with all these different people. The instructors then threw in a turn (which was so hard)  and then also this like teeter toter type of step.....which I got pretty quickly.  After the instruction part was done, they played a few songs so that we could all practice with who ever we wanted to, so I of course ran to Andrew, and we busted it out!  LOL! We definitely have more to learn, but it was so fun!

We all left with big smiles, and were so happy to have just done that, and we all cant wait to go back. I have a feeling there will definitely be some livingroom salsa dance practice before we go back though!

LOVE IT!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!

There are about 16 of us going out to dinner tonight for him, sake bombs, sushi, hibachi, YUM! Should be fun! :)