[Sashy]

Originally Posted by *Shira*

I'm now staying in the home of a local family for 3 nights. Last night, they took me to a wedding - the niece of my hostess was the bride.

The bad news: no paid dancers, no live music, just a DJ who played the same songs about 4-5 times each over the course of 4 hours. Mostly Egyptian pop, with a wee bit of salsa, a song whose unimaginative lyrics were "You gotta pump it up", and the macarena. The Egyptians do the macarena the same way we do.

The good news: the 16-17-18-19 year old girls were really in a dancing mood, and kept dragging me up to dance with them. I think they found it very entertaining to be dancing with a tall blue-eyed American the age of their mothers and grannies (who were all sitting on the sidelines being proper). I was keeping it pretty low-key at first, and then the looks on their faces were priceless when I threw in a quick little Dina butt wiggle at one point.

At one point, one of the groom's friends got up on a chair, and everybody picked it up and held it at shoulder level while he belly danced on it.

That must have been quite an experience,Shira.Hope you could take some pics while at the wedding.