Thank goodness for the website Meetup! If you aren't familiar, Meetup is a website where people post activities and invite others to tag along. In Toronto I belong to Toronto Weekend Adventurers Meetup that goes on day hikes. In my travels I've discovered that Australia, particularly Melbourne, is awash with Meetups.
One Meetup friend in Melbourne, Amanda, seems to go to two Meetup events a day. If it's not tea, it's a walk, drinks at one club or dancing at another.
The other interesting thing about these Meetups is they seem to attract a middle aged audience. Amanda invited me to see an 80s band at the The Royal Albert Hotel in Port Melbourne, and when I arrived at 8:30 on a Saturday night, the place was packed with people aged 40+ (well... 45+ okay?). Not only that, but when the band got up to play, the dance floor filled to the brim immediately.
One Meetup friend in Melbourne, Amanda, seems to go to two Meetup events a day. If it's not tea, it's a walk, drinks at one club or dancing at another.
The other interesting thing about these Meetups is they seem to attract a middle aged audience. Amanda invited me to see an 80s band at the The Royal Albert Hotel in Port Melbourne, and when I arrived at 8:30 on a Saturday night, the place was packed with people aged 40+ (well... 45+ okay?). Not only that, but when the band got up to play, the dance floor filled to the brim immediately.
We were fat, we were over 40, but we were up there hoofin' it. I even got to Pogo!
The only drag: I had to leave at midnight or I'd pumpkin. You'll learn the reason in my next post.
What the heck did you do when you did the Pogo?
ReplyDeletePogo dance:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(dance)
From the article:
ReplyDeleteOccasionally, dancers collide, but this is not necessarily part of pogo dancing. An uninformed bystander might get the impression that the dancers are attacking one another. People sometimes get injured when pogoing, but, more often than not, pogoers who fall to the ground are helped up instead of getting trampled. There is a general understanding that the pogoing is fun, not a fight. As the more aggressive hardcore punk emerged in the early 1980s, dancing became more violent and evolved into both moshing and slam dancing, in which dancers run and jump around, deliberately shove and slam into each other. The risk of injury in moshing is significantly higher, although it is generally agreed that moshers are not attempting to cause each other serious injury.