Moonlight and Roses - 18th August 2005

That was the theme of the DBU get-together on Thursday the 18^th of August. The grand old hall was decorated with silver and blue balloons, while over the bandstand a dozen long stemmed roses hung suspended from the ceiling. Each table had a long centre-piece of silver cloth on which petals of red roses were strewn with a blue saucer holding a blue candle dusted with silver was shaded by a glass chimney. There were nearly 70 people present, all ready and waiting to have a rollicking time. The band Lazer was playing and they opened the evening with the tune ‘Moonlight and Roses’. They played a lot of romantic music and the dance floor was always crowded.

The caterers, Perera and Sons, had produced a wonderful menu for dinner which included seafood salad, lasagna and roast pork!!! For dessert there was my favourite chocolate mousse. I certainly enjoyed my dinner.

Then there was a game where a blue balloon was tied onto the wrist of each lady on the dance floor. Their task was to burst the balloon of the other ladies while preserving their own. No gent was allowed to ‘help’. Soon just two couples circled the floor each carefully preserving their balloon but not making any move to ‘attack’. Finally one person, yours truly, oh so gracefully allowed one of the organizers to burst the balloon and let the other couple win, otherwise we could have gone on all night! Am I not wonderful now??

The game for the gents was soo much more fun to watch. A dozen gentlemen were asked to get onto the floor, and a banana, dangling on the end of a twine was wrapped around their waists with the banana dangling a couple of inches off the floor. Placed on the floor, in front of each person, was a box of matches. Their task was to swing the banana and move the matchbox along the floor to the finishing line. Oh what fun we had with that! It was HILARIOUS!!! What moves!!! I must say all the gents on the floor were really great sports!

There was more music for dancing, waltzes, jives, cha-cha’s and baila and the ‘Moonlight and Roses’ ended by 1.30 p.m. with the band packing up to leave. What a lovely evening!