The Silver State Square and Round Dance Festival at Reno in May, 2013 is history.  We had such a great time here!  Callers were Hunter Keller, and young and energetic guy, and Tom Miller.  Hunter did a call where he impersonated several of the well known callers and did an excellent job of it.  Had us in stitches!!

 Met some new friends and saw some old friends too.  Actually, all our friends are old, whether we just met or not...it's just a symptom of aging.  Don't want to try to keep up with the young'uns anyway.

The RV park was right on the grounds of the GRAND SIERRA CASINO.  It was nice to be able periodically to get back to the motor home quickly to rest our feet and take a pain pill!!  

Our picture above was taken during the festival.  They charged $5 and didn't even offer to refund any of it.  They said my being ugly didn't qualify for a rebate.  But, doesn't Eloise look stunning???  That's one of my favorite outfits of hers.  We can't haul very many around in the motorhome, and she has to limit the crinolines  too. 

 This guy was a hoot!  He was in one of the RV slots, and had pushed out this rear-end of a 1959 Cadillac.  Notice the baby grand piano mounted forward.  He said that he has played this in Europe and all over America.  Sometimes playing with Jerry Lee Lewis.  I asked him how Jerry Lee was these days, and he said he still plays some, but likes to spend his days watching soaps on TV!!  As a teen,  I worked several years for Mr Turner in Skyline subdivision in California...he had just bought a new 1959 Cadillac and I thought he must be one of the richest men in America!!  It wasn't a convertible but it was pretty cool!  I drove my beat up Model A Ford at the time, so anything that ran was pretty cool.

 This is a shot in the round dance hall.  Round dance is like ballroom movements that are done as couples moving in a reverse clockwise direction, while a "cuer" tells the dancers what moves to make, and it's all done to the beat of the music.  Round dance is graded from 2 through 6 levels of difficulty.  Eloise and I are fairly comfortable at level 5, and are not planning to try for 6.  There are so few dancers in this picture that I'm guessing it was a level 6 dance.  When lower levels are on, there can be two circles of dancers.  With everyone going in the same direction, doing the same moves, it's a fairly safe sport.  The floor was really full when we went to a phase 4 teach the next day.

 This driving range was part of the Grand Sierra complex.  We don't do anything other than putt-putt, but this looked interesting.  Yes, that's snow on the mountains.  It snowed here just a week ago.

This is Saturday night.  Everyone dressed in their best stuff.  This is just one of the 3 halls for square dance, and another for round dance.  There was a Mainstream hall, the easiest level of square dance, a "Plus" hall which is a little more advanced, and an "Advanced" hall, a level we are now trying to attain.  

 
 In the lobby there were vendors set up.  These are just a sampling.  Aren't those dresses good looking!

This is us at Sunday morning casual dress dance.  Notice that Eloise is wearing a red rose they gave her for Mother's Day.  She had to pin it on herself though.  

That was our Reno festival.  The picture of the 50 alley bowling facility didn't turn out.  Next stop is Ponderosa Thousand Trails camp.  See ya.