Hmmm...let's see...I'll try to answer a few questions for ya.
Yep, Cathe and crew were all very tiny in person, just like you've heard. I'm not that tall, but I look huge compared to them (not just taller, either). And Jai and Lorraine were wearing heels in the pic that I took with them! (Sorry no pics yet; I haven't gotten my act together enough to post them yet, but I will.)
Cathe was indeed super-sweet. She really made an effort to learn people's names and even remembered a lot of folks that she had met before. I had never met her, but while I was doing the relay she pointed at me and said my name! Freaked me out! I think she may have read my nametag, but she was kind of far away. And then the next day when I had my picture taken with her after kickbox, she remembered my name (and I wasn't wearing my nametag!) I was impressed that she'd made such an effort to get to know us, as well as you can get to know 105 people in 2 days.
At the end of the step class I thanked Cathe for showing us some of the new choreography from the new series (it's great, BTW) and I said that I was having some trouble learning it in a class setting...at home I have rewind and a pause button. She offered to go through the moves with me one-on-one right there! So sweet. And me being an idiot, I said no, that's okay, I'll get it eventually, since I have a pause button at home. Duh. Cathe was offering me a private lesson and I said no!!!! I don't know what I was thinking. Actually, I do know...I didn't want to take up too much of her time.
Cathe and all of the crew were so great about posing for pics and signing autographs. They always had a smile on their faces, and even when the lines of people waiting to talk to them stretched across the room, they were always patient and so friendly. It was really great. Brenda came to the step class, put down her stuff, then came over and sat by us just to chat. We were so psyched! I thanked her for how patient she'd been with all of us hounding her for autographs and pictures and she said it was so much fun, that on Mon she would be going back to work and back to the everyday as usual.
Cathe looks and talks pretty much like she does on the videos...what you see on screen is genuine. Everyone was even prettier in person, especially Lorraine. Like I said, they all were so sweet and genuine.
That's probably enough for now. I gotta get away from the computer, but I'm sure I'll be back to post more later. Definitely feeling that post RT let down....
