Looking Back.....My 35 Days As ZumbaDaddy

5 weeks from start to finish and now its over. Gone in a flash, but what a flash it was! 
Yesterday,  January 6th 2013 was a day I will never forget, as the Relay for Life Committee for Bergen Beach, Mill Basin & Marine Park hosted Zumba for Life at the Aviator Sports Complex.

After a melodic rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by the lovely Olivia Faith Cappello and opening remarks by Relay for Life Committee Chair Kathie Smith, ZumbaDaddy took center stage to deliver the ZumbaDaddy oath:

"Today I will hang out with my best friends and my family, I will meet new people and make new friends, I will dance badly to good music in a sincere effort to exercise, I will set a new world record, and help create a world with more birthdays. I am ZumbaDaddy and this is Zumba for Life!

Led by DJ Kaz, our 5 Certified Zumba Instructors Phyllis Sorrentino, Melissa Lopez, Vanessa Romano, Gerri Santoli & Wilson Gutierrez led over 400 frenzied Zumbanatics in a rhythm and beat filled one and one half hour Master Class, the likes of which had never been experienced before by anyone in attendance.  By the time Phyllis Sorrentino led the cool down to Zucchero's Spirit Together, the perfect anthem to both Relay for Life and Zumba for Life, the buzz was that history had been made and the indoor mark for a Zumba class set. In all over $5,000 was raised in this 2 hour event which filled the Aviator Sports Complex to capacity with participants aged 6 to 76 and an excitement that accompanied the first song and never left.

My 5 weeks as ZumbaDaddy have been memorable.  Along with my Relay team I have reaped the rewards of a successful kick-off to the Relay season.  In addition, we leave Zumba for Life knowing we have brought our community together from a dozen different directions to promote fitness and cancer awareness.  We treasure all our new friends and hope you all will continue to follow us and our efforts as we Celebrate our survivors, Support our fighters, and Remember loved ones lost to cancer.

This is ZumbaDaddy signing out. I am putting my neon Zumba shirt away ever so carefully..........you never know!

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Spirit Together 

by Zucchero

I was never so close to heaven as i am right now.
People coming together
that is all i care about
and the feeling get stronger
as the sun is going down
yeah the spirit is out there
somewhere in this crowd

Everyone that i love
must be somewhere in this crowd
we gotta go
we gotta make it together
we gotta stand
we gotta spirit together

If you wanna get closer to heaven
then gather round
our voices together
making a perfect sound
everyone that i love
must be somewhere in this crowd
we gotta go
we gotta make it together
we gotta stand
we gotta spirit together

We gotta life
we gotta right
we gotta make it with the spirit in sight
we gotta light
we gotta fight
we gotta make sure what we're doing is right
we gotta plan
we gotta stand
we gotta make sure that we do understand
we gotta fall
we gotta love
we gotta love

We gotta go
we gotta make it together
we gotta stand
we gotta spirit together
we gotta life
we gotta right
we gotta make it with the spirit in sight
we gotta love
we gotta fight
we gotta make sure what we're doing is right
we gotta plan
we gotta stand
we gotta make sure that we do understand
we gotta hope
we gotta love
we gotta love