The Fitness Babe: Halloween Zumbathon 2012

A spooky and chilly night on October the 20th was perfect for Yoyo's annual Halloween Zumbathon!!!

All of the proceeds benefited Autism Speaks as well as Yoyo's own non-profit organization Building Back Piece-by-Piece.

Many, many hours went into the preparation of this event including developing choreography, editing songs and even a few hours of practice after each Zumba class. Several students of Yoyo's were selected (including myself) to help make this event even bigger and as you can see we practiced hard!

Yoyo, seriously ready!

While the event date came closer and closer we had to meet and make sure that are costumes, choreography and event schedule were all in sync.

But we of course still had to have fun while doing it!!!!

On the day of the event as people began to file into the "haunted" school, many costumes were on display including our opening Zumba instructor, Michaela.

Two Zumba instructors followed, Javin (bottom far right ) and Diondra (unable to be pictured) and then it was time for our show!

D' Tae, Brandon, Donovan, Javin

Donovan, Javin, Yoyo, and Derek

Keli, Donovan, Derek, Darline, Brandon, Natasha, Yoyo, D' Tae, Me, Chulee D

Opening with Michael Jackson's Thriller we quickly got the crowd into zombie mode and even included a Michael Jackson tribute remembering the King of Pop.

In our wacky costumes and with this dubstup version, you couldn't help but to say three times Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Bee-tle-juice!!!

Me, Keli, Chulee D, Natasha, and Darline

I am far left..

See a snippet of our performance above!

And as the guys had there performance it was now time for the ladies! With horns and a red tail, "She's A Devil" is what we sang as we salsa-ed across the stage. If you can't tell this one is one of my favorites!

Natasha, Darline, Me, and Keli

See a snippet of our performance above!

The event continued with Yoyo's younger brother Donovan mixing up the Zumbathon with a little KISS!!

Kiss Tribute by Donovan

Closing the Zumbathon was a Gangham Style performance by PSY featuring Zumba instructor Javin in which the power mysteriously turned off during our during our performance! Maybe the school was haunted after all!!!! Nevertheless we finished the event on a positive note which was all for this little guy here!