Hula Oops!

During my Junior year of high school, my mom had to go to Hawaii for work.  That year I didn’t really have much of a spring break, so she invited me to tag along with her.  She would have to work during the days but our hotel was right on the beach so I shouldn’t have any problem keeping myself occupied.  I don’t have much patience when it comes to just laying in the sun, so after some exploring I found a whole book of activities offered daily by the hotel.  JACKPOT!

(Our hotel)

One of the activities that looked interesting to me was Hula Aerobics.  It was to be held the next morning 9:00-10:00am outside in the courtyard.  It sounded so fun, I couldn’t wait.  My mom didn’t have to leave for her appointment until 9:30 so she said she would come with me and watch for at least a few minutes, maybe take a picture or two.

So the next morning I got up nice and early and got ready for my aerobics class.  I was a little nervous because I didn’t pack any “work out” clothes or shoes; if it got too intense I may be in trouble.  It took us a little longer than anticipated to get down to the courtyard.  I started freaking out because I HATE being late for things.

We finally made it to the courtyard.  I saw the class warming up and stopped dead in my tracks; my mom burst out in laughter.

“That’s the class you wanted to do?”

Standing in the middle of the courtyard was a woman who was easily 70 years old.  She was surrounded by 10 or 12 kids, the oldest not a day over 9.  I wanted to turn around and go back to the room.  Between giggles my mom said, “Katie you can’t just quit.  You said you wanted to do the class.  Just go join them, it could be fun.”

Reluctantly I walked over and stood at the back of the class.  All the other parents tried their best not to stare.  I’m sure they just assumed I was a special child.  My mom didn’t help matters much.  She just took pictures the WHOLE time, clapping and saying how proud she was.

(I'm the old one to the right)

10 mins later the class was over.  I got out of there as fast as I could.  My mom got a better workout than I did from all her laughing.  The only thing I learned from the class is to make sure and research before
signing up for anything!


FOOTNOTE
An additional interesting fact:  we had to check out of our hotel room a day early because the cast of Baywatch Hawaii was coming to town and they needed the room.  Who needed our room you ask??  Well none other than THE David Hasselhoff!!  Clearly they didn’t realize ‘he’ was already staying there!  Oh the irony!!