The Heits crew has definitely caught a case of ridiculitis. We have been ridiculously busy doing ridiculous things!
I will admit, I’m doing most of the ridiculous things. First, I decided to dance in the "dancing with the profs" competition on campus. A very sweet education major asked if I would dance with him. I said, "absolutely not", once or twice. Eventually, I was dancing!
We practiced around ten times over the past few weeks. The competition was last night. Unfortunately, we have been passing around a bad case of stomach flu in the family. Thomas had it on Wed and missed a day of school. Emma started in on Thursday night and threw up until Friday morning. I got it at Emma’s game on Friday.
I threw up all night Friday night and into the morning on Saturday. Rehearsals began at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Yikes! I kept telling myself that Emma had played an entire basketball game the day after her night in the bathroom. Certainly I could dance for 3 minutes.
Anyway, the short story is, I made it through the day and the dance. Kory and I didn’t win, but we did have a good time. I am very sore from using muscles that hadn’t been used for a very long time. As ridiculous as it sounds, I was more nervous to step out and dance in front of that crowd than I have been for anything in recent memory. There were probably around 900 people there. The place was packed! I was wearing a dirty old altered wedding dress over black tights. It was truly a scary thing!
Here are the competitors! The winner was a kinesiology professor and his partner who did an amazing salsa! Ridiculous, but fun!
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