Carenza's Caravan had a busy weekend with Muncie's Mardi Gras celebrations! 

Johara, Dunya and I (Elizabeth) started out the night downtown at our favorite shop, Wishbone.  They are always so good to us!  If you go in there, mention that you heard about them from us, cause seriously--they treat us so well!  Anyway, they let us warm up a bit in there.  No one ever said that being a belly dancer was easy, but they did usually say you'd be hot because belly dancing really is a work out!  This did not turn out to be the case this weekend.  It was pretty chilly at 13 degrees, not to mention the serious wind blowin' through Walnut st.  We took turns warming up occasionally, but by 9:30, we were all (as my granny used to say) "Chilled to the bone!"  We had a tip box, and only made a little bit of cash, but it was fun dancing!  Not to mention the major coverage we got:  Apparently Dunya and Johara made it onto the Channel 13 news, and Dunya and I made it onto the front page of the Sunday paper!  Our friend Beth from the Sahara sisters joined us, as well!  She was a real trooper and it was a lot of fun having her there dancing with us!

At about 9:30, we needed to get to our next engagement, and just in time too because it was starting to get pretty rowdy.  We got to Ball State's Late Nite Mardi Gras. Late nite is a weekly (or something) event, where they have a bunch of stuff going on in the student center.  It's a pretty cool event, and they asked us there to teach some lessons.  We did so, and met some really great people, and some really great dancers!  I hope I see them in class soon!  Belly dancer Molly was there with the freak show.  She did some fire dancing with Poi (two flaming balls on the end of ropes that get twirled around) and a staff with the ends on fire.  It was way cool (no pun intended).

So, a good night indeed!  Next up, we have the Tribal Pura show in Bloomington.  If you are interested in going to the show, I suggest you purchase tickets in advance, as you can get a price break and you don't risk traveling to bloomington and having them be sold out!  You can buy tickets online here. 

So, until next time!
~Elizabeth