Dance Dance Revolution or DDR is a video game where you try to match your dance moves to the ones on the game screen to various types of music. The first time I saw the game I was in Italy with Peter at a really great Star Trek convention. We had found out shortly before we went that I was pregnant with Caroline. We were walking to a restaurant that had been recommended to us by the con committee and passed a Video Arcade where DDR was at the front of the room. We stopped and watched two young ladies play the game in earnest. They were using the grips to keep upright as they danced faster and faster with their friends cheering them on.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to Farpoint last year and in the game room there was Playstation set up with the DDR pads attached to it. Ariel and her gang played DDR as long as we would let them. It was the place to be if you were a teen that weekend. Caroline was one and happy to watch the kids dancing from the comfort of her stroller.<\/p>\n
Farpoint this year found Caroline now participating in the game by hopping up and down on the pad. She loved it and she loved playing with the big kids especially her big sister Ariel.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Peter was going through the downstairs closet looking for his hiking books to go shovel the front walk. He pulled out one of Ariel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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