February 2012, Apache Junction, AZ
We kept busy in February with Tai Chi, Water Aerobics, and hiking. We also helped with the February Pancake Breakfast – Nancy helped cooked scrambled eggs and Rex helped cook bacon and sausage. We served over 230 people at this breakfast. The Dolly Steamboat started getting busier as more snowbirds arrived in the Valley of the Sun so Rex has been working more days. The weather was great this month – mostly in the 70’s. We went to the 22 nd Annual Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest and watched the last day of the competition. Hoop Dancing is Native dancing using from one to as many as 50 hoops. The hoop or circle is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and female. The best Hoop Dancers from the US and Canada participate in this competition. We were able to watch dancers from the Youth Division (6-12 yrs), the Teen Division, the Adult Division and the Senior Di