Saturday 11 January 2014

19. You put your right leg in, you put your... No wait. That's the Hokey Pokey.

26th December 2013, Round Up Saloon, Dallas, Texas

After a very lovely turkey dinner (and wine!) at the ex boss' house we were off on a grand tour of the Dallas nightlife.

In my defence - I was very jet lagged and slightly hungover from Christmas Day and I'm going to excuse the fact that I thought the valet guys were car jackers with that. Probably my biggest cousin from the country moment to date.

Clearly, the ex boss knows me a bit too well starting us off at a posh cocktail spot only to immediately move us on to a saloon style cowboy bar. Which would have been good enough, but it was about to get better.

The further I wandered into said bar, the more it cemented my cliché ideas of Texas and I absolutely loved every second of it:

People wearing cowboy hats at the bar - check!
References to Rodeos - check!
Pool tables next to the bar - check!
Centre Stage line dancing - CHECK!

At spotting the line dancing I nearly passed out with excitement. But as that would be somewhat embarrassing, I instead started squealing when observing all the line dancers whilst jumping up and down like a five year old at Peppa Pig land (at least I hear that's the standard reaction).

But it got better. Not only were there line dancers there - there were boy-boy and girl-girl line dancing couples. My politically correct heart just melted!

It seems to be trickier than it looks - thankfully there are online tutorials so I'm better prepared next time! Anyone know of any line dancing bars in London?

So this is when I've calmed myself down a bit. The line dancers are behind us. Minutes after this picture was taken I was back to jumping and clapping.

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