{"id":11149,"date":"2014-02-08T16:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2014-02-09T00:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T06:53:17","slug":"2014-zumba-instructor-conference-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11149","title":{"rendered":"2014 Zumba Instructor Conference — Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo of my travel mates — Lisa, Pat, and Stephanie — at breakfast.<\/p>\n

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The three of them traveled together because they flew through United. I used Brian’s frequent flier miles (thus, my airfare only cost me the $10 handling charge roundtrip) so I had to use American Airlines. I arrived only an hour behind them so it wasn’t too bad. Although, they had a nonstop from Los Angeles to Wichita on the way home so that was nice. I, on the other hand, had another layover in Dallas.<\/p>\n

I can’t complain, though. Even though my choices were limited, using the frequent flier miles saved me almost $500. <\/p>\n

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I’m glad that I saved money on airfare because our hotel was not cheap. We stayed at the JW Marriott at LA Live<\/a> which is right across from the Staples Center<\/a> and just a short walk from the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC). That convenience came at a price. It’s worth every penny, though. <\/p>\n

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Check out the view of our hotel from the LACC.<\/p>\n

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The one nice thing about the Los Angeles Zumba Instructor Conference compared to the Zumba Instructor Convention in Orlando<\/a> is that there were no lines at registration. Probably because the conference is a much smaller event consisting of only about 5,000 or so Zumba instructors. <\/p>\n

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We got badges and goodie bags in no time. We didn’t get free conference shirts this time. However, we did get free Zumba sweat towels in our goodie bags.<\/p>\n

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The goodie bags are just like the backpacks they gave us at the convention except they’re in the conference theme colors. Lisa is modeling hers below. She must have a sixth sense or something because her day 1 outfit perfectly matched the conference colors. Even her Asics and cellphone case matched!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a photo of Stephanie, Pat, and Lisa, on our way to the kick off session. <\/p>\n

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And then here they are at the kick off session.<\/p>\n

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It was insane! I think there was enough energy packed in the conference hall to power a small village for a month. LOL. Zumba instructors are so energetic!<\/p>\n

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There was an LA Lakers game that same night at the Staples Center but we had a date with the Augie’s Quest Fitness Concert. A basketball game would be something fun for Brian to do if he does go with me next time so I made a mental note of it.<\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures from the fitness concert…<\/p>\n

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If you think this is a lot of people, wait until you see the size of the crowd at the fitness concert at the Orlando convention. This is nothing compared to that.<\/p>\n

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That was pretty much all of day 1 in a nutshell. I’m amazed that I lasted the entire fitness concert considering I was running on 3 hours of sleep that day and I was up for almost 24 hours the night before. I must have absorbed some energy from my fellow Zumba instructors. What an amazing experience! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo of my travel mates — Lisa, Pat, and Stephanie — at breakfast. The three of them traveled together because they flew through United. I used Brian’s frequent flier miles (thus, my airfare only cost me the $10 handling charge roundtrip) so I had to use American Airlines. I arrived only an hour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,1617],"tags":[373,943,2256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11163,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}