I'm an 80's Aerobics Girl...Even in 2008, Even in Thailand

written January 26, 2008

I can remember when I fell in love with aerobics. I was 14 and the most gorgeous African American man I had even seen was my instructor. (Well, maybe it wasn’t aerobics I actually fell in love with…hmm, never thought about that before.) Anyway, I loved it. I bought the outfits and went to as many of Sean’s classes as he taught in a week. I’d even take the Metro bus to Broadway from Bellevue to take his Seattle classes. A few years into it, I even took his instructor training class and started teaching on my own, and I can still remember some of those routines…

So here I am in this gorgeous sunny weather everyday. I wake up and think, “Go workout inside at the gym on the second floor? I think not!” I’m only going outside. But, I love my knees too much to run anymore, and the wind has been making the sea too rough for swimming. So up to the roof top garden I went today. There is a little garden up there that even has planted grass (my knees love that). I set up my IPOD and portable speakers and just started rockin’ out. I had my pink Addidas hat on, my sunglasses, and I just started jumping around for about half hour or so, enjoying the view of the entire town, of the ocean, of the blue sky…better than any TV program or mirror I’d stare at in the gym, that’s for sure! The time just FLEW! And thank goodness all the Thai’s like to stay inside…not a soul seems to ever come up to hang out up on the roof like I do everyday. I think I’ll do it again tomorrow!