US OPEN 2013 – Update #13

Oops I’ve been told I forgot four divisions!

NOVICE JACK AND JILL

Daelus Lu Jiaji and Marjorie Bertrand
Andre Silva and Stepanie Chen
Austin Scharnhorst and Tarlia Gee
Philippe Berne and Mindy Halladay
Jesse Lopez and Shirlei Toledo Leite
Dante Quazzo and Alina Hah
James Druzdzel and Flore Merlier
Tristan Cachoz and Celine Germain
STephane Guijarro and Trista Eazell
Daniel Roero and Ekaterina Kovalenko

INTERMEDIATE JACK AND JILL

Allan Skinner and Alison Duchatel
Olivier Duplay and Alison Strong
Midhail Kovalenko and Rebecca Savoca
Matthew Lietzke and Tracy Wang
Jeremy Govert and Alina Mihai
Tip West and Dalena Lee
Casey Fowler and Jennifer Molle
Matthew Maddin and Ty Thomas
James Mattus and Sammi Sekhon
Adi dacudao and Bryn Anderson
Quentin Ducret and Michelle Crozier
Tommy Schwegmann and Marylnn Lane
Ben O’Neal and Lois Petersen

PRO-AM FOLLOWERS

Elysia Somerfield (with Clint Glasgow)
Olga Hermann (with Michael Kielbasa)
Bryn Anderson (with Brandon Parker)
Marie-Claude Lafleur (with Gerald Cote)
Trista Eazell (with Sean McKeever)
Karla Catana (with Nicki Silton’s husband)
Jen Soto (also Mrs. Silton’s husband)
Heather Crowe (with John Kirkconnell)
Julianne D’Amico (with HER DAD! Lisa’s husband)
Monica Bryan (with Gerald Cote)

PRO-AM LEADERS

Tommy Brodie (with Kellese)
Peter Srethabhakti (with Mackenzie)
Mark Slater (with DAUGHTER CHEVY! BEAUTIFUL!)
Nikhil Shahi (with Nicki Silton)
Robert McChesney (with Yvonne Wayne)

I’m still in the hotel but I am the ONLY dancer left in this entire hotel it is so WEIRD it’s like the US Open never existed it’s silent and empty there’s no trace of it ever having even happened.

I just went into the restaurant for soup and it’s all weirdo non-dancing strangers in there instead of an entire packed noisy room of dear wonderful people who dance and I know every single one of them and I love them and where is everybody WAAAAAA I THINK I’M HAVING A MELTDOWN I HATE EVERYONE.

Anyway.

I spent today talking on the phone and dumping pictures from cards onto my computer. Oh my god I have so many good pictures – thousands of pictures! I’ll be getting them online sloooowly cause that’s my style evidently but here’s the Facebook album called, nah duh, US Open 2013 Happy to email or dropbox the originals if there are pictures you’d like to have.

Tomorrow I fly home to winter in Washington DC.

But! In three days Chuck Brown holds his After Party event,

(Get it? It’s the “After Party” of the Open. Isn’t that a great name? Here’s the website: The After Party )

and I’m betting lots of non-USers will still be here in the states and will be partying hard at the After Party. Can’t wait to hear about it. It’s a famously funny, relaxed, fun event.

Lots, lots, LOTS to tell about the Open. It was magnificent.

And the drama! This year wins the prize for drama.

0hmy GAWD.