A day of Easter Zumba, chocolate and confusing the team!

This will just be a quick blog as we spent most of the day working hard on the presentation for the district conference. However following on from Sally Cu arranging for us to see a dance show, we also then got invited by the same dance team to come down to their dance studio and do an hour of Zumba. Now if you want to read an exciting blog all about Zumba the. Go read Natalie's as I know it will run to pages just like my climbing one due to this being her passion. However the opportunity to try something new a d to be honest just do some exercise was to great to pass up. I was I interested to see what the big fuss is all about with Zumba as well as it is a massive hot on the Ph at the moment and as soon as anyone here finds out that N is a Zumba instructor all else is forgotten!!!!!!!

So we tipped up and I don't know who was more nervous out of the two of us. Me for putting myself way out of my comfort zone (well come on, I cannot dance and this was me doing my first ever Zumba class at a professional dance studio) or N for meeting her idol!

Upon entry to the small room with mirror the full length of the front wall, Sally and I adopted positions at the rear to hide a N was soon moved to the front by an eager class of top flight dancers. What followed on my part for the most was terrifying, exciting, energetic and fun as I tried my very best to follow the routines. Some of it I got but the dance steps were quite complex and Zumba is FAST and HIGH ENERGY! N was asked to lead on a couple of routines that went down a storm and I was pleased and proud that she did a great job of representing herself, the GSE and the UK. By the end I was drenched in sweat as though I'd been dunked in a bath - I'm not kidding, any exercise in 30c heat is hard and this was an 8am start!

Some quick photos and a breakfast was followed by a tour if the impressive dance studios and the smile on Sally's face told me I'd held up my own well. ( I was later told by N that the dance instructor had commented that I had high energy and loads of enthusiasm, which equates to not much musicality or style in my mind with a pat on the head for my 'special' dancing!)

The whole GSE gang then got together at my hosts home so we could work together (yes WORK!!!!) and to break the work up and just for fun I put together Ann Easter treasure hunt with rhyming clues for the. To follow. It was great to see Richard and Nat running around the house like children and finding clues that I had hidden in plain sight. Amy helped in decoding the clues (and hand writing) and the chocolate I had brought from the UK was a welcome reward.

The end of the day bright new hosts for us all and some interesting challenges for me which would show me that the team would rally for me when I needed them but for now I'll sign off!