Kingdom of Knuffel

It's okay, they'll all be gone... someday :D

Haha xD
Good person!! * w *

May I ask how old she is? :o
1920s dresses are superb!!

That performance sounds really awesome! I like this kind of history/art/style mix :)

She's not quite 70 now... she's been doing this for a long time! My grandparents used to dance also but now that they're in their 90's they don't do so much physical activity anymore.

I think she's actually stronger than I am. >.<

Oh, me too! It was so interesting to hear how everything was related... cost of clothing materials went up, so fashion changed and there were not as many layers, so people could do bigger movements in dances... then the fashion became for skirts that were more narrow and the dance changed too so the feet moved more from the knees down but the upper legs did not move much (think jigs and early Charleston)...
after the Great War and Influenza epidemic brought the population down, the dance floors weren't so crowded so now you had dances that really moved around the floor instead of staying in place...
I never thought to connect these things together before!

Wow!! That's amazing! Your family is amazing!! * o *

Wow, that makes so much sense, but one would never look at it that way! Cool! :)
Also, it's amazing that your mom still dances and is fit at her age. :)

Wow! now that is a history of dance!!

I love how everyone's reactions are in unison! xD

Hee hee, it does make me wish you all could have been there for one of the shows, you'd have made a great audience!

What do you guys want to be doing, when you are almost 70?

I would love to have seen it!

I guess I'd just like to still be healthy and have a partner - from that basis I'm equally fine with sitting at home reading books and playing video games or travelling the world and seeing lots of things. Ideally I'd like to not have to work anymore by that point.

Random numbers: 356, 480, 129

Wow, Chrizine, I just realized your avatar is almost exactly how I pictured "Sleeping Beauty" when I first heard the tale!
Sorry, that was random. Especially since with the rose if you had to go for fairytales it really ought be Beauty (& the beast).
Just...
It's eerily close, if you ignore face shape since we don't have a choice on that with avatars.

edit: Wait... that's not a rose. That looks like a scarlet-red daylily, kind of?? What is that flower?