Confessions of a Fitness Instructor

Happy Saturday everybody!  I hope you all have a fun weekend planned!

Psst! Did you miss my first two posts about my trip?  If so you can read about day 1 here and day 2 here

As I briefly mentioned Thursday, Friday morning was the Live Fitness Concert.  We had been told in advance that we weren’t allowed to take anything into the concert with us so I don’t have any photos from the actual concert.  Of course loads of people did take their cameras so it would seem I could have also but whatev.

The concert was serious fun.  The stage was circular and there were probably 6 dancers on it at any given time instructing us on what to do, and there were all sorts of styles of dance and music.  We had caught wind that Wyclef was going to be appearing at the concert so were expecting to see him, but what we didn’t expect was for Pitbull to come out and sing a song!  Pitbull is pretty big in the Zumba world, many of his songs are used for Zumba routines, and recently he released a song titled, “Pause” that actually has Beto (the creator of Zumba) and Lindsay Taylor (a Zumba education specialist) featured in the video {you can watch the video here if you haven’t seen it.  So once he showed up on stage it was no surprise that he started to sing “Pause” and we all broke out into the choreography from the video.  The thing is…there was a camera guy recording for Zumba almost directly behind Holly and I and we didn’t realize it (I saw him there but didn’t think anything of it) and it was a day or two later before one of my friends discovered this, but we are in the video released on Youtube for that performance!  Holly is in it almost the entire time, but I pop in and out as I was slightly off screen.  If you watch the video I am on the left hand side and I first appear on screen at around 0:34.  I’m wearing a black tank top and my hair is up in a pony tail

I somehow also made it into this video around the 2 minute mark (I’m wearing a purple skort and right behind the girl in the blue/green shirt)

From there we went to a Zumbatomic (the kids Zumba program) Boost with Gina Grant – who I LOVE.  I was determined I wasn’t leaving until I got a photo taken with her which I got!

Sweaty hair and all :S The amazing thing is unlike when I met Krista, I didn’t act like a total goober!  Maybe it was because I had a good 2 hours in a session with her beforehand to get over my goober-ness.  Either way I was glad not to be a blubbering fool this time.

We also got the chance to get our photo taken with Lindsay (the ZES from the Pause video) and it was Holly’s Idea to do a “Pause” pose.  I love it!

After the Zumbatomic session we started heading to our last session for the day.  On our way we noticed a small group of people who seemed to be freaking out over something.  Being nosey we went over to see what they were so excited about, it turns out Beto (the creator of Zumba) was heading up to his hotel room.  Sadly I was slow on the draw so we didn’t get a decent picture of him, but that is him behind the dude in the hat.

Our last session – Columbian Connection – was crazy awesome.  It was easily my favourite session of the entire convention.  I just didn’t want it to ever stop.  If you’re a ZIN member planning to go to convention next year, if they offer this session again I totally recommend it.

But wait!  The day still wasn’t over!  That night we ( all 6500 convention attendees) had a private concert with Pitbull.  Like I said above, us Zumba instructors LOVE Pitbull (and I’m pretty sure he loves s – we help make him quite a bit of money by promoting so many of his songs!).

The concert was great, there were all sorts of people doing zumba (including us ) and having a great time.  I took some video and made a montage, it’s not fabulous since I used my camera and not my flip but if you’d like to watch it here it is {FYI – the sound isn’t the greatest}:

The concert finished up at around 11:45pm, and our beloved trolly stopped running at 10:30.  Our original plan was to grab a taxi back to our hotel and we went outside to see if we could nab one.  Once outside we met up with a group of people walking back to their hotel which wasn’t that far from ours so we decided to walk to.  Remember how we got lost on the first day?  Yeah, well this time we got lost after midnight wearing concert attire – thus looking quite a bit like prostitutes.  Lovely.  As we wandered aimlessly we decided to record something…

Sorry Arlene! You had to know we were going to pick on you!

Clearly we made it back to the hotel, but before we got back we had 7 or 8 cars honk at us, 1 dude yell, “you need a ride!?” at us, I smashed my toe hard 2x on the uneven sidewalk, Holly had a rat or something run across in front of her which resulted in a number of profanities being screamed as I took off running and leaving her to fend for herself, and two sets of directions given to us from two different hotels to assist us in finding our way.

It was then that we decided that we would be leaving Saturday night’s “Glimmer and Glow” party early enough to catch the trolly since we clearly couldn’t be trusted to walk (or find a taxi).

With the hopes that I’m not boring you to death with these posts, tomorrow I’m going to combine the final two days of the convention into one post, and depending on the length it may also include our trio to Seaworld in that post as well.

I hope you are enjoying reading about our {mis}adventures!

Have a great weekend!

Is anyone heading to see Harry Potter this weekend?

We went last night and I was a mess (as predicted).  It took all my energy to avoid actually sobbing out loud in a theatre full of strangers.  I was successful and managed to just cry uncontrollably without making much noise.  But when I left the theatre everyone waiting in line was starring at me, J looked at me and told me I was a mess.  My face was red, my eyes were bloodshot and puffy.  Adorable.