The Starlighters Dance Club Dance Event

Starlighters Winter Casual 1/15/2011 (Page One)

Join Us, It's Fun! (Page One)

Page 1 - Arrival And Visiting  |  Page 2 - Dinner Pictures  
Page 3 - Post Dinner Cavorting

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Have fun and dance!!!  We danced all night

The holidays are behind us so it is time to dance some more!

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Everyone was right on time... We had 34 1/2 couples this evening

Did you know? - A large variety of devices have been invented to measure time. The study of these devices is called horology.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Some folks like to be near the bar...

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Saying howdy after a two month break

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
The hors d'oeuvers were magic... They disappeared

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
We are counting!

Did you know? - Hors d'œuvre means literally "apart from the main work"), also known as appetizers, are food items served before the main courses of a meal.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
You should hear what goes on when the girls get together... It's stacked against us

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Joey is taking care of the guys

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Careful, the bills are still a little wet

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
All smiles at the door

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Bill & Holly are enjoying the fruit of the grape

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
The wine tasting table

Did you know? - The traditional colours used for wine bottles are:

  • Bordeaux: dark green for reds, light green for dry whites, clear for sweet whites.
  • Burgundy and the Rhone: dark green.
  • Mosel and Alsace: dark to medium green, although some producers have traditionally used amber.
  • Rhine: amber, although some producers have traditionally used green.
  • Champagne: Usually dark to medium green. Rosé champagnes are usually a colorless or green.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Bob & Millie are circulating

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Jim was been sneaking into the hors d'oeuvers... "I have NOT!!"

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Serious discussions underway

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Ah... They all got the memo about the coordinated colors

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
The red-dress society

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm.

Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared (below red), and cannot be seen by the naked human eye. Red is used as one of the additive primary colors of light, complementary to cyan, in RGB color systems. Red is also one of the subtractive primary colors of RYB color space but not CMYK color space.

The word red comes from the Old English rēad. Further back, the word can be traced to the Proto-Germanic rauthaz and the Proto-Indo European root reudh-. In Sanskrit, the word rudhira means red or blood. In the English language, the word red is associated with the color of blood, certain flowers (e.g. roses), and ripe fruits (e.g. apples, cherries). Fire is also strongly connected, as is the sun and the sky at sunset. Healthy light-skinned people are sometimes said to have a "ruddy" complexion (as opposed to appearing pale). After the rise of socialism in the mid-19th century, red was used to describe revolutionary movements.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Like Santa... Checking it once and checking it twice

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Good kitty!

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
The tables were just fine for ten people

Did you know? - The term "table" is derived from a merger of French table and Old English tabele, ultimately from the Latin word tabula, "a board, plank, flat top piece". In Late Latin, tabula took over the meaning previously reserved to mensa (preserved in Spanish and Portuguese mesa "table"). In Old English, the word was bord, replaced by "table" for this meaning.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
"Yo... You... Pass the wine!"
Yeah, the cameraman knows he is in trouble for that one!

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
OK, where's the music... We just have to dance!!

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Guy has brought a new wine... a One Buck Chuck!  Joey, it's a screw cap!

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Even the guys get together and gab!

Did you know? - It is claimed that the synonymy of "blarney" with "empty flattery" or "beguiling talk" derives from one of two sources. One story involves the goddess Clíodhna and Cormac Laidir MacCarthy (see "Origins" above). Another suggests that Queen Elizabeth I, while requesting an oath of loyalty to retain occupancy of land, received responses from Cormac Teige McCarthy, the Lord of Blarney, which amounted to subtle diplomacy, and promised loyalty to the Queen without "giving in". Elizabeth proclaimed that McCarthy was giving her "(a lot of) blarney", thus apparently giving rise to the legend.

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Jon warms up... Oh oh!

Did you know? - Music was an important part of cultural and social life in Ancient Greece: mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual ceremonies; musicians and singers had a prominent role in ancient Greek theater. In the 9th century, the Arab scholar al-Farabi wrote a book on music titled Kitab al-Musiqi al-Kabir ("Great Book of Music"). He played and invented a variety of musical instruments and devised the Arab tone system of pitch organisation, which is still used in Arabic music.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
The house is packed... This is good

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
The wine bottles seem to be emptying

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Getting the real skinny

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
So... I was driving the car just like this when....

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
.... and?

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
They are trying to do a square dance... I think

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Bob is attempting to levitate the wine bottle

Did you know? - Levitation (from Latin levitas "lightness") is the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravity, in a stable position without solid physical contact. A number of different techniques have been developed to levitate matter, including the aerodynamic, magnetic, acoustic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, gas film, and optical levitation methods.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
Guests Jan and Brian Finch from the UK

Did you know? - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border[note 8] with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, and the Irish Sea.

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities
They are sure eyeoing that bottle

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

Starlighters Winter Casual Pre-Dinner Activities

It's Time To Dine

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Page 3 - Post Dinner Cavorting