Forget your troubles and dance - Bob Marley

I mentioned awhile back The Wednesday Club booked into Boot Scootin' and the date finally came round.

Despite my lack of co-ordination and difficulty remembering my left and right (for real!) it was relatively easy and a LOT of energetic fun!

The best part, it was quick. You spend less than 5 minutes learning the dance, then you did the dance to a whole song and then you moved on to the next dance. 

I had been worried that we would spend an hour learning one dance as I had in other dance classes.  However, these dance moves are repetitive, so you actually get better at it as the song progresses. It didn't take long not to care about skill and if you mucked it up, it was easy enough to get back in time with the group, so great for beginners like us.

We all had a good time and are booked in to go again at the next available session. It is booked out months in advance so if keen, there might be somewhere closer to you.

I had said while venting to my husband that I was 'maxxed' out on stress levels just a few hours before, due to family issues and work problems (all falling on me at the same time), plus trying to juggle the kids needs. I walked to the venue to get some exercise but was still grumbly on arrival.

However, it didn't take long to transform that!

I was laughing at how bad I was, and then I was bouncing around energetically with the music plus the bonus of memory exercise. By the time we left I felt transformed! 

As an aside, the teacher was hilarious - there was a warning before we were filmed (to avoid a Cold Play moment) and she made fun of us (in a funny way, not hurtful) as we were a jumble of fairly hopeless skill levels. So there was quite a comedic element to the frivolity too.

I was too busy dancing to take photos and while I just wore sneakers, I was very taken with the instructor's glitter heeled boot!

As they say, there are shortcuts to Happiness and dancing is one of them!

Thus another thing is ticked off the Torschlusspanik List.

Torschlusspanik List

1. Shooting (check)
2. Fencing (check)
3. Play croquet at Croquet Club
4. Laser skeet (check)
5. Off road buggy driving
6. Play Assassins Creed
7. Jetpacking (check)
8. The Color Run (check)
9. Invent something
10. Cooking Masterclass (check)
11. Master a Masterclass (check)
12. Perform a rap song (check)
13. Trampoline adventure (check)
14. BMX Riding (check)
15. Do a cart wheel (check)
16. Ride an Electric Bike (check)
17. Astonish Myself
18. Write a book.
19. Participate in a distance event (check)
20. Climb Sydney Tower (check)
21. Dance in a dance class (check)
22. Trust a stranger

23. Get a truck for the Landmine Museum and Relief Centre in Siem Reap

24. Paint a picture 

25. Go Rollerskating (check)

26. Do Chinese Square Dancing

27. Do some life drawing (Check)

28. Make something on a pottery wheel (check)

29. Try Axe Throwing (Check)

30. Get into a nightclub with 'a strict dress code'. (check)

31. Go to a gig that starts after midnight. (check)

32. Glass Blowing (Check)

33. Go line dancing  (check)