Well, I found out what my birthday present is going to be!  (because I asked specifically for it).

Are you ready????

Did the title give it away??

Any last minute guesses?


CIRCUS SCHOOL!!!

That’s right.  As of Janurary 6th, two nights a week I will be going here:

And I will be learning to do this:

Hurrah hurrah hurrah :) :) :)

I’ll be taking two aerial skills classes, which are:

1.)

Aerial conditioning
Prerequisites: Aerial Conditioning – none
Advanced Aerial Conditioning – instructor’s permission
This class is for beginning students, or for students who want to excel in static trapeze, flying trapeze, rope or Spanish web. Students will build the strength, control and flexibility essential for achievement on aerial apparatus. Classes will include warm-up, floor stretching, strength training, time in the air on rope and static trapeze, and homework assignments.

and 2.)

Intro to aerial skills & static trapeze
Prerequisites: Intro to Aerial Skills: none
Intro to Aerial Skills is designed to build strength, flexibility and introduce students to basic aerial apparatus, such as the static trapeze and vertical rope.

The classes run two nights a week for three months.  Then hopefully in April when the next semester begins, I will graduate to straight up rope and potentially also aerial silks, which is my ultimate goal (depending on how far I progress in these two classes, I guess you can’t pre-requ your way into aerial silks you have to be given permission by the instructor because they are apparently stretchy and harder than rope).

WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  January 6th can’t get here fast enough.

Here is a bonus aerial silk video, which is crazy hypnotic to watch:

A shout-out to my friend Shannon, who, upon hearing the news deadpanned with perfect comedic pitch: “enjoy the circus.  don’t run away and join it.”  :) hee