Bubbles in the Bathtub

I thought I'd go ahead and embarrass myself to pre-empt anyone else doing it for me.

For those that haven't heard yet, I am currently president-elect of the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS). I officially become president on May 1st, the primary upshot being that I am responsible for organizing the next (2007) sea turtle symposium.

There is a small amount of pomp and circumstance associated with passing the mantle from one president to the next. One is the jacket, which I will get in to later. Another is the presidential trowel which is typically passed from the outgoing president (Dimitris) to the incoming president (me) at the banquet at the annual symposium. I don't recall at which symposium the trowel came in to being, but the intent was to help the responsible president shovel their themselves out of "trouble". There may have been a pair of boots at one time as well :)

In any case, I digress. I'll see if I can find the full history of the trowel.

This is about the dance. When Dimitris brought me up to pass the trowel he invited me to take part in a traditional Greek dance with him, along to a video clip from Zorba the Greek.

Having never attempted this particular dance before I insisted the Dimitris help me get started.

Somewhere along the line Dimitris disappeared and I was left to carry on alone (eek).

Hopefully I didn't embarrass myself too badly. I understand that there is also some video of the event floating around out there, which I am sure will appear here eventually!