L.A. Monday Adventure

My last week of lay-off from FIDDLER is right now. I only have 3 more weeks after this until the tour is over: Toronto for a week and then 2 weeks in the land of Cleves. So I went to visit John in Los Angeles where his tour is sitting for 2 months.

John picked me up from the airport and after a brief stop at Target and then the apartment to drop my suitcase and change into gym clothes (John said he required it for the day) we were off to Santa Monica. We headed straight for the beach and strolled around on the cliff top.

The pier had it's permanent carnival going on and we headed that way.

While walking along the pier we passed the New York Trapeze School.

As we passed, I mentioned that it looked like fun. John told me that he had made us an appointment to try it as a Monday Adventure. After socking him in the arm and saying "no way" I realized that it had to be true and that was the reason I had to be in gym clothes.

After a brief bit of instruction and being fitted into our safety harnesses it was up to the top of the ladder. There were 10 in our group and I was third in the rotation. This wouldn't have been so bad except that the first girl had been doing the trapeze thing for a while and the second girl was probably 10 years old and a gymnastics kid. Let's just say that I do NOT "sail through the air with the greatest of ease" and the circus would not be a secondary career option for me.

An instructor named Morningstar, yep, it is California, hooked me up for the first attempt.Clearly, this is my best angle. I could have killed John for this shot.

And into the net which was the best part of it, I thought. So I wasn't so good, but John was a natural.

UP.

UP.

And away! John was so good at it that he got to be caught by one of the professionals.

When I figure out how to get the video off my blackberry, you'll be able to see the dare devil in action. And here it is!!!