Quincenera's cruise and ball (Part 1)

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The quincenera cruise is arranged by a travel agency. There are several travel angencies that offer this. Before we started on this adventure, I was under the impression that a Qunicenera cruise would be an entire cruise ship full of people celebrating somebody's 15th birthday. This is not the case. In our group, there were 26 girls. They did not all know eachother. We were brought together by the travel agency. When we made our plans, we did so with another family, so when we started out we knew one other family that was going. Before the cruise, the families had to go to a few rehearsals. On the day of the ball, they had to dance a Waltz with their fathers. Before the dance, the mother and father "presented" their daughter to the audience. A small blurb was read about each girl as she came onto the stage telling about her hobbies, goals etc. Each girl would do a little walk, much like runway models do. When she was done, the mom and dad came up and the girl gave her mom a kiss and a flower and sent her mom on her way. Dad stayed on stage with the girl to do the waltz. The waltz was done by the entire group. There were 26 girls, so the father/daughter pairs were split up into three groups that would take a turn. It reminded me of some scenes I've watched in movies from the old days, when they would have balls. It was sweet to watch. My daughter was telling her cousin about the dance today and it made me realize how much appearances can be deceiving. From where I sat, it all looked quite elegant. My daugther was telling her cousin about the girl who's father got drunk before the dance and was doing everything backwards and about how they were giggling and pointing out eachothers errors onstage. From where I sat, you couldn't see the errors and you weren't aware of the giggling.