Trapezing

Dudes. I swung on a trapeze! Here's some proof!



Can you even believe it? I look like I belong in the circus! I'm flying though the air with the greatest of ease. As a celebration of my friend Kristen's birthday and kind of my birthday and just because it's fun, we went and took a Trapeze lesson in DC.  I kept thinking that I had made a huge mistake (that's for you, Kat) and was a little nervous. Turns out, the scariest part was climbing the ladder.  And jumping off the platform.



We learned two tricks--swinging from our knees and dismounting with a backflip and being caught from our knee hang. They yelled out commands for you to follow so that you would have the right timing for everything--and I got in trouble on my first swing because I did NOT follow directions.  I'm terrible.  One of the directions they yelled was to smile which I clearly did not do on this one.  This is the look of determination.



I took this picture of Kristen and she DID smile.  See? It's fun!

And here's my awesome back flip.



There were a few girls in our class who come quite often and were doing much cooler tricks than us--and that was fun to watch.  There was also an 8 year old girl--as soon as I saw her go I realized that I really wasn't allowed to be scared.



They have locations in Boston, Chicago, NY, DC and LA I think... so if you live near one of them, you should go check it out.  Promise you'll like it a lot.



I also promise you'll be sore the next day.  Apparently it takes a lot of muscle to hang from a bar.

(Alison. You would have loved it.)