While searching for the Portland Tago Festivals I made the delightful discovery that the New York Festival is the first weekend in October. That is the weekend that we had already planned to be in NYC to see our daughter perform at the Gramercy Theater.

Do you think that two more months of lessons will get us to the point where we can take the "Advanced Beginner" classes listed in the program? Our instructor is so amazing that it is a bit intimidating, even though she is very encouraging. I can barely believe how she can balance so perfectly on 6" heels and reach so far behind her. Of course she has been dancing tango for 11 years and is also a yoga instructor.

I wouldn't worry too much about our ballroom friends commencing an intervention. While we were traveling to D.C. this weekend, they were attending an all night milonga in Seattle.