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Whee! I'm in Saskatoon! My friend/former co-worker came to Edmonton on Tuesday, right before my trapeze lesson. I went to my class and then came home and Ian and I watched "Young at Heart", which I completely recommend. Such a sweet movie.

Then we got up Wednesday morning to prepare for our cross-provincial drive. We ended up leaving at 11 am and didn't really stop for a long break the whole way. We stopped in Viking and Cut Knife to wander around, use facilities and take weird pictures, and we stopped in Wainwright so I could buy fresh BC apples and Ian could buy some beef jerky. We then drove to his sister's house and my mom picked me up from there. She then drove me home where I said hello to my dad, who was incredibly spacey as he had just had dental surgery and was sedated. He was pretty much out of it, which was a little freaky. We had an incredibly quiet evening. I've already taken Fergus for two walks and have just been hanging out at home. So nice and peaceful.

My first trapeze lesson

I definitely don't like trapeze as much as I thought I would, because I have very little upper body strength. It's really quite hard. My classes are in the back of a gymnasium and kids were training all around me, which was pretty neat. There are six people in my class. This includes a girl in her teens, another one in her early 20s, two girls who may be in their late 20s and another girl about my age. One of them is originally from Quebec and is studying at the university. She moved to Edmonton with her Chilean boyfriend, who needed to be able to work in English.

We did a lot of warm ups, and then tried out the trapeze. The first thing we did was swing from the trapeze, and then we learned how to do "beats" which involves swinging back and forth. This was followed by a hanging from our knees from a much lower trapeze. I could do this, but instead of unravelling myself, I just dropped down onto my arms, freaking out my instructor. I was fine, but she warned me not to do that on the much higher trapeze. I also managed to sit on the trapeze and balance in three different ways. By this time, my arms decided that they had had enough and I was pretty much grounded for the rest of the class. The other people in the class are much better than I am. My flexibility is a definite asset, but my upper body strength needs a lot of work. Unfortunately, there were no nets for us to fall into and we just placed big mats under us. I was slightly disappointed by this because falling into the nets looks like a lot of fun.

Still, I'm glad I tried this. However, I don't feel an instant love for the aerial arts, and I probably won't take more than my six classes. Dance and yoga seem to be more my thing :)