It was our last full day with just the 3 of us – today (the 19th) Ruthie comes to join us in Hawaii! We had no specific plans, so we headed back to Walmart for some staples. Miranda says that Walmart is our favourite place in Hawaii, because we’ve gone there so much. I don’t want Walmart to be my favourite place in Hawaii. >.<

We had yet another terrible meal in Mililani. I think part of the problem is that we’re trying to eat near the Walmart, and it’s all fast food and big box and not really exciting, but we went to Popeyes Louisiana. It’s like KFC, but with different spices. >.>

Ava, practicing her acro. Look at that toe point and back arch!!

I made dinner, we lazed around, then I drove to the University of Hawaii for some more circus. There is a gym space there that the circus folks have arranged to use along with some breakdancers and trickers, 3 times a week. It’s pretty good! It has a spring floor and mats, and enough space for the people needed…and it was free to me? I don’t know if someone pays for the space, but it wasn’t me.

It was also a bit more formal than the park. Here there were clearly defined groups of people training, and there were 7 partner acro folks doing a variety of partner acro things. While there, Angel and then Dick (I think his name was Dick…I hope I’m not confusing him with another person…) did just a little bit of leading, by way of “oh, you should try this!”.

The first thing was trying a 3 high! I was initially in the middle, because we had a super sturdy base and I was a good pick for middle. Unfortunately, I feel like I couldn’t get the balance right and I didn’t have a good press against the back of Pauls head and it never felt stable.

(I left my GoPro at home, so these are phone photos which are terrible, sorry)

After some discussion, we decided to put me on the bottom of 2 lighter people who had done it with Paul earlier.

I couldn’t tell you how much weight Paul on my right (your left) is holding in his spot, but I can tell you that I didn’t actually know he’d let go at the end until I just looked at that photo now!!

Dick (guy on my left in the photo) asked if I knew “baskets”, which I knew was their name for what we call Banquine because I’d had this conversation with someone else a few weeks ago. So we did a bunch of practice throws of that – the other base was about my size, but had only been doing acro for about 6 months so it was good to go slowly.

We built up to tossing Angel, and then Christina, who apparently had a gymnastics scholarship in college. Here’s Christina:

That wasn’t our best throw, but we were getting tired. I can feel my knees this morning. 😛

That will likely be my last circus in Oahu this trip. With Ruthie and then Duke and Jamie and Mia coming this week, I don’t expect I’ll have time to go – we’ll be busy doing things! So I said my goodbyes and thanked everyone for the great practice!

I drove home and arrived around 11:30pm local time, which is like 1:30am my-body-time, because Vancouver had daylight savings while I was away. I was tiiiiired. And wiiiiiired because that happens when I stay up. I’d asked Miranda to look after Ava in the morning so I could sleep in and she’d agreed, but I woke up at 5am anyway and couldn’t sleep any further. I’m really tired, but not sleepy, if that makes any sense.

I think I’m going to make spam and eggs for breakfast. 😀