On Saturday night, after all the excitement of the birthday party was over, Sophie crashed out on the couch which just left Martin and me to entertain ourselves.  He was busy playing his DS and I was preparing food for the next day, I flipped on the TV and was pleased to find that there was a Lawrence Welk Valentine's special on public television. 

"Oh Martin!  Its Lawrence Welk!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah?  Who's that?"  He asked, head barely even tipping up from the DS.

"Oh Martin, your Grandma Zamora LOVED Lawrence Welk.  She used to watch him all the time," I explained, sitting down next to him.  And seriously, what is not to love? 

There is always some great dancing where the girl gets twirled about, sometimes spun around the guy's head. 


There are great singers in matching outfits who have hair worthy of envy.


And of course, there's the man himself.  He always looks so serious when he introduces the guests and regulars on his show, then smiles broadly as the performance begins.


I like it when he turns to the orchestra; all the musicians lifting their instruments in unison.


But the part I like best is when the a musician stands up to do a solo.  And in the Lawrence Welk Orchestra the accordion has a very special place.  Here the accordion player looks directly at the camera and nods his handsome head.


Later, he stands in front of the orchestra for a fast-paced song where his fingers fly across the keys and buttons faster than the wind.


And at the end he speaks directly to the camera over thunderous applause and says "Thank you, you've just made a grandfather very happy." 


And I can imagine that this very charming accordion player has made an awful lot of GRANDMOTHERS very happy as well.  Very likely, my own.