Might I add that you can get golden hairpins later on in the game. I would strongly suggest you get Mog ASAP. Also about that dance you can miss, you get it by going through the serpents drench (sp?). You need Mog in your party and then go through the underwater place and fight. Then he'll learn the dance and you can be on your way. You can get almost all of Mogs dances when you first get him.