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| Getting ready to try polo |
As we finished the end of the school year last year Liana became the president of our local international women's group. She asked me to be her vice-president. I said yes. We work well together and make a great team. Liana with her contacts and her outgoing personality is the lead singer. I'm her back-up dancer and happy to do it.
I always love to see what Liana is going to cook up for a monthly meeting. Last month we hosted the meeting in a spectacular house and garden north of Buenos Aires. After some yummy food and time to chat Liana kicked off the meeting with an outdoor fashion show of a famous swimsuit designer in Argentina. The swimsuits were beautiful and the models who were both in their forties were stunning and an inspiration to all of us that it can be done.
From the fashion show we went straight into a talk from a polo estancia that encourages people to stay with them and to play polo recreationally. Argentina is one of the few places in the world where it's possible and as Liana says, "if you live here you just have to do it!" After a few minutes of talk about the estancia we were invited to spring into action. They brought professional polo players, sticks and balls and stools to stand on. We were able to go out into the garden and give it a go. How fun!
After trying to give the ball a good whack a few times I stood back to watch the scene. That in itself was really good fun. A polo stick is very long. It's no mean feat to swing it 360 degrees around and I loved hearing the women have a giggle at themselves. Up on the terrace people were eating and chatting and the bathrooms were lined up with women trying on swimsuits. A few even modeled for the group.
Everywhere I looked people were having a good time. They kept coming up to me and saying that they felt like they'd been to a party. And they had. It may have been a Thursday afternoon but with Liana at the helm it doesn't matter, a good time is always in the cards.
I can imagine the dinner tables that night as happy Moms enthused to their families about their afternoon. Polo, swimsuits, good food and friends . . . does it get any better? ✿ Micheline
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| Trying My Hand At Polo |
