h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For most of the day on Saturday my girlfriend was dancing in a Ballroom and Latin competition at the University. I went along and watched a little last year and quite enjoyed it, so I thought I’d go along again this time around. I had a few things to do during the day (which took longer than it ought to have done because the centre of town was jammed full of tourists visiting the Christmas Markets) but I made it up to campus in the afternoon for the Latin rounds (which I like better anyway).

In the evening we went along to the Christmas Ball. I’m sure I wrote about what a lovely time we had last year and things were equally lovely this time around. The Pump Rooms is an amazing venue to have a ball in and it’s always nice to have an excuse to dress up. Since last year I’d managed to forget how to waltz and foxtrot and didn’t have the advantage of spending the summer learning to salsa dance so I went along to the beginners’ lesson on Friday night and got taught the basics once again.

I’ve always said I preferred the Latin dancing and during the evening on Saturday I managed a couple of jives and a cha-cha-cha or two and as usual we salsa danced to some of the samba music. We also managed a couple of “no frills” rhythm foxtrots and once again I made a passable attempt at a waltz at the end of the night (I think that’s my least favourite dance because I keep forgetting which foot I’m supposed to be on). We also drank quite a lot of wine and spent most of Sunday vegetating in front of the television nursing our hangovers.

This evening there’s a Millennium Lecture on the Huygens Probe which has been exploring Saturn’s largest moon, Titan which might be quite interesting. Then if there’s time afterwards we were thinking of going to the cinema.