By the way - I'd love to hear from any of you who DID make it to Ralph Page this year what you highlight was, anything you learned that you'd like to pass along to me (and anyone else) who wasn't able to be there. I will also report that, as a still relatively new and inexperienced caller, I had my first meltdown this past weekend that I DIDN'T have to stop the music but was able to simply give the dancers a heads' up and start calling a much easier dance that most of them knew and even those who didn't could easily pick up without a walk-through (Lady of the Lake - Haymaker's Jig to those of you not from Maine). The result was that at the end, the dancers felt like we'd accomplished a miracle rather than had a failure. Whew! We learn, we grow. It was fun. love, -cynthia