I was trying to keep a journal recording what happened at all of our lion dances. Here's one of the entries I have so far....some are pretty funny (at least according to my twisted humour

March 17, 2005
Kwan kung
Onoway

Last night we went and did a demo for Onoway. We have a preformance tomorrow at Alexis school, so we needed the practice. Man! What and unlucky day! First, Sifu Robertson got the flu (he's the tail this time) so he couldn't come. Funny thing is that we found this out about 1 hour before we were supposed to be in Onoway. We tried phoning Sifu Playter, but he had forgotten his phone, so we couldn't get ahold of him. Sifu Webb couldn't make it, nor could anyone else. So we were stuck.
So, without the tail, we did what any good lion dance team would do....
We went anyways, hoping to get ahold of Sifu Playter, or recruit a tail from Onaway. We loaded everything up in the van, stopped at Safeway for some lettuce, and headed out to Onoway. We were fashionably late We got there, unloaded everything and still there was no Sifu Playter.
Luckily for us, Sifu LaRocque was willing to be our tail. So while Master Brinker explained the dance to the students, Sifu Clements and I (Sifu Davies) took her out into the hallway and gave her a ten minute crash course . We tried our best to prepare her and then went out to preform.
Oh was it funny! Sifu Clements was the head, Sifu LaRocque the tail, I was the Buddah and Master Brinker was drumming. The dance started out pretty well. Sifu LaRocks tail got stuck, so her butt was sticking out. The cloth had gotten hooked on her tail and she didn't know, so when the dance started, I had to skip over and unhook her Then Sifu Clements did the wave too soon. It was pretty funny, because Sifu LaRocque had unbuckled herself because she had thought it was the exchange, so right after, when Sifu Clements went to do the roll, out popped Sifu LaRockSifu Clements didn't know, so he went right on rolling without her, leaving her behind. She had to run and scramble back under the tail.
The lettuce toss was pretty funny too. Sifu LaRocque didn't know about shredding the lettuce for the first toss, so Sifu Clements ended up trying to tear it up with his mouth inside the head. He gave up and just chucked it and the whole hunk pelted a kid in the chest. The other two tosses went well though. Then I had to go out with the broom. I hadn't used it before, so I was pretty bad at it. I almost hit myself with it while I was swinging it around. It was hard trying to sweep around Sifu Clements feet-he moves alot
It was oh so funny!
Congrats to Sifu LaRocque for her first ever lion dance. She did so awsome! She's what you call gifted I'm still laughing though....Sifu Larocque lost a shoe during the preformance too- they were too big for her
I also found out after, when we got back to the training hall, that the broom head screws off. I was playing with it and it just flew off. Luckily, it didn't fly off at Onoway. It would be no good if I'd smacked someone in the face with it-it's heavy!
Lion Dancer's Luck!

-Sifu Davies