BOX R RANCH

Guess who's heading out on his first week of overnight camp? And guess who gets to sleep in a tipi, hop out of the sack early for Polar Bear Swims, shoot arrows from a bow, and stay up late round a campfire?

That's right. Little Roscoe's headed off to YMCA camp. Aubrey's been telling him every ten minutes for the last two days that she misses him already. He's been packed and ready to go since Friday.

The rest of us will stay home and wish him well -- we'll also surprise him with some gooshy lipsticky HoneyBoy Reynolds mail so he can have the full camp experience. Of course.

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ZUMBA QUEST 2009

Today I'm bound and determined to figure out how to get Zumba classes taught at our YMCA. The Medford Y holds them, but so far Ashland hasn't even heard of them.

What is Zumba? Here's what I know: it's a killer, fun, calorie-burning dance workout that my friends in Washington and Tennessee LOVE. L-O-V-E -- the way I love to eat whole jars of frosting. Huge, huh? And wouldn't I love to have a great substitute for THAT passion? (For the record, I haven't bowed to the canned frosting gods since October.)

THAT'S what I want.

So, here's my approach for the day:

1- Call the Ashland Y director to find out if it's even on her radar. (Done. Left message.)
2- See if the Medford teacher could swing a couple classes a week in Ashland.
3- See if I need to get myself into a Zumba Instruction class. I just found the instruction class website, and they're taught all over the nation - but the May classes for Issaquah, WA, and Tigard, OR, are already SOLD OUT! There's a Bend, OR, class June 6, and it's not full yet... We'll see what I have to do.

The only sticky point about that third option (teaching) is that I'm out of shape and I've never actually done a Zumba class! Ha! Oh, and it costs $220 - but I think I could recoup the damages there if I went through with it.

So, I'll keep thinking through this as I head out for my first Pilates class at the Y, my first Pilates class in about a year. Youch...