Its been quite an exciting few days. Even with having to work a full day saturday and a full day Sunday we of course went to the first beach party of the year (starts at like 8pm Saturday and goes till like 6 in the morning on Sunday).
I was set up to do some fire hooping at the party.... no pay...but free drinks all night (joy.. lot of good that did me). The party was HUGE!!! at least a thousand people were there.. easy... and there was always a DJ playing and some vendors selling food and of course a bar.
We took Alice and a few teachers with us (Rain, Eky, and Sarah)... the more outgoing teachers.... but even they seemed a little overwhelmed (and probably pretty tired).
I pulled out my LED hoop and danced with it for awhile in the early parts of the party... and ran into a guy that does poi and a few people that wanted to learn to hoop and sadly gave them my number with two numbers reversed (didn't have my phone on me).
Then about midnight it was time to pull out the fire... we looked around for a good place... i dunked my head in the ocean to get my hair and beard all wet... then started setting up my stuff... Sarah helped me as fire safety (always good to train a new one of those in every city) and we had a little show right by the water... the people kinda scattered on the lower part of the beach came down to watch... and it was great..... but i needed to make one more up front where most people were.
So we waited a few minutes.. fueled up and headed into the main crowd in front of the stage. Ran into chris and a bunch of other people i knew there who quickly cleared a circle for me and lit me up. It was AMAZING... i had to be a little careful of people in some section of the circle moving closer... but for the most part people stayed far enough away for my comfort..and their faces...
For this performance the speakers were RIGHT behind me and BLASTING.... add that to the excitement of the crowd... i was amazingly pumped by the time the fire went out and probably could have stayed there dancing all night. Luckily my teachers were there and tired and wanted to go home.. so i left at about 1am... a still somewhat decent time.
Then on Monday we hit another part of the beach (daytime this time).. and did some paddle boarding... really strange but fun... you get on a really big thick surfboard type thing.... with a paddle.... and you paddle yourself out into the water a bit.. then stand up.. and keep paddling around and try not to fall.. its a little tough but pretty fun. Not a sport i would invest any money in.. but fun for a random day on the beach.. and it was pretty hot out.. so everytime you messed up and hit the water... it felt great!
I'm sure there are many more adventures to come this summer!
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