Tour Diary 19

Tour Diary – 19 - Sunday in San Antonio – Learning the Two-step and choosing a hat…

I think it is proving difficult for us to conceive of things getting any better, but firstly we felt we had found our spiritual and artistic home in Eureka Springs and then we were shown the extraordinary quirkiness of Austin and fell in love with that too – It’s motto is ‘Keep Austin Weird’ and I just love that energy.. but now here we are in San Antonio having just returned from a walk along the river, which is renowned and have fallen in love again.  It’s a conglomeration of Venice, San Tropez, and the Embankment in London.  Wonderful…

So going backwards we have been so incredibly busy for the past week since we got into Austin that there literally has been no time to take a breath or write a word or three.

Wednesday 20.4.11

We had arranged to meet up again with Candace and her lovely husband Tom along with another Forum member Toni in Austin.  We had had such a lovely time together in Rogers at the end of the Dolores Advanced class that we wanted to try to spend more time together.

I don’t think I have ever experienced such spontaneous generosity and care and attention to detail  for our well-being…. as was exhibited by these 3 amazing people.  There was nothing they wouldn’t do more for us.

Tom had asked us what we liked to do and then worked out an incredible itinerary, which took in dancing, cinema, restaurants and food, food, food.  It also included a guided tour of Austin taking in any relevant points of interest. 

In between all this we were together constantly for the most diverse and mind-blowing conversations on all subjects to do with the Metaphysical and our Past life regression work, including an opportunity for us three girl Therapists to work with a client in tandem.  That was a huge learning experience for us all and was wonderful to be able to see how these focused, intuitive Regressionists work.

They all came to Steve’s talk which had been organized by Candace, at the home of a friend of hers and that was so successful that Steve was talking for nearly 4 hours.  Nearly 2 hours of the book talk and then a really intense free-fall of questions and answers, which took in practically every subject he and I are trained in and diverted away from the ET situation into Metaphysics and the past history of life on the planet and also Healing Modalities.  I think if there were not time constraints both the people left and Steve would still be talking now!

People so enjoyed that talk that they turned up again the next day for the Mufon Chapter talk, including Candace, Tom, Toni and also Toni’s partner who had by then joined us.  When people are coming to hear Steve talk twice, he feels a need to offer a completely different presentation.  This involves him in re-shuffling his notes and can take quite a time.  However, he had his presentation all set up and then was ‘woken’ at 3 a.m. the night before and ‘told’ that he had to do an entirely new presentation.  This proves to me that the E.T’s have no concept about time!

Poor thing .. but he managed to get it all done and presented much more information about who they are and what they are like, which was what they wanted him to be saying now.

On our first night in the lovely town of Ausin, Tom had arranged for us to go for a early evening drink of Margaritas cocktails and an opportunity to have guacamole made for us at our table, which was all wonderful.  Every venue that Tom chose was done with precise attention to detail to give us the very best overview of the cuisine on offer in this intensely cosmopolitan city.  On our own we would never have experienced even 1% of what this city has to offer.

We were then taken to a store on route to our next big adventure.  The big adventure was to go to the very famous ,Oldest Two Step dance hall in Texas… called the Broken Spoke, but to totally get us in the right mood to do the Two-Step/Line Dancing, Tom insisted that we have a hat. No Texan will Two-Step without his hat and I believe that as they are so big it has something to do with helping you balance your head so that your feet stay firmly on the floor..  Either that or if you are particularly bad at two-step you can pull it down over your eyes and no-one knows who you are.  I got the impression however, that there is an enormous sense of pride in being able to do this form of dancing well, as so many of the men danced and completely ignored the woman in their arms because they were purveying all the women sitting on the side-lines and the men were sending out the energy of ‘Look at me, don’t YOU just wish it was you here in my arms’

The hat store was so big!! It was a bit daunting trying to make a decision.  Luckily he did not want us to necessarily have boots to match as there were literally hundreds and hundreds of pairs in the store and they were all so beautiful it would have been so difficult to choose.  Some boots, we were told, take over 18 months to get made.  The craftsmanship was awesome.  The creative designs on the boots just breath-taking..  So many wonderfully creative people here in this country.

We chose our hats then made our way to the dance hall.  It was like a mini museum as over the years so many famous people have come and had their pictures taken with the owner, including many high profile film stars like Clint Eastward and many musicians famous in their own right… Dolly Parton.. Willy Nelson… etc….

Our evening started with a dance lesson and I would have to say that when you see Thelma and Louise do it…. well, all I can say is that they must have been doing it from infancy.

I think the problem with Steve and I is that we both have a very unique way of dancing which involves hip wriggling and not a lot of footwork, this was a completely different focus in that feet are everything and they slide along the floor in a very definite – not to be messed with – beat.  Steve kept begging to throw in the wriggle and ‘do it his way’ but I was having none of it as I wanted to do Tom proud and so I kept counting him down… One.. two …three together… four together…. Repeat….

We finally got some semblance of order into our  sliding around the floor and began to be pleased with our progress when the dance teacher threw in a curved ball and announced that was just the basic step and now for the next move…

What!!!!  We thought we were doing so well and now she wanted us to do some additional moves and therefore thinking and even worse counting!!

Well we managed that and breathed a sigh of relief although I was well aware that Steve was still throwing in the odd wriggle or two to try to jinx my counting… and to entice me….but I held out…. And then she wanted us to do a turn.

A turn!!  … it was all I could do to keep my husband on the floor but we kept on trying and ultimately I think we managed really well.  However, I wasn’t going to let on that my long years of jiving with my school friends in my aberrant teen years had finally proved to have been a worthwhile occupation because I could twirl even though my hubbie looked like he was trying to hang onto a wriggling fish!!

I was so grateful that it wasn’t being recorded even though I knew that Candace had snapped a picture or two of us when… aaaarrrrgggghhh she sent us through a mini clip of us doing the Two-Step.  Somehow they had managed to move around the floor, (this being new to them too), and at the same time film us dancing…

I bet they can both tap their heads whilst rubbing their tummies too.

So it was a fun filled evening and I can still do the steps although as Steve has gone back to his sexy wriggle, I have dance by myself as I slide counting up the room…One.. two…three… together…four… together….

The next day Toms treat was to take us to the best movie theatre we have ever been to in our lives…

To be continued….