Colombia - La Feria de Cali

Welcome to Colombia friends! The home of good coffee, cocaine, beautiful woman, and amazing salsa clubs. La Ferria de Cali did not disappoint. My buddy Dustin and I had the time of our lives in Cali, Colombia and Bogota, Colombia. So this guy wants to know, who is ready to dance?

Dustin is ready to dance like crazy!

Andrea is ready to dance!

Sandra is ready to dance!

Sandra's friend is ready to dance!

The girl with the big beautiful eyes is ready to dance. (Too bad the hat is in the way of her eyes.)

The girl in the green shirt is ready to dance.

I started to take some pictures the forth or fifth day in Colombia because I was too busy dancing like crazy every night with Dustin. Here is a bull fight we went to on December 29th. Never mess with a bull...

But it is always a good idea in Colombia to mess with the police. (Eh ... Fernando, we have a crazy gringo tourist here. 10-4 over and let's go out on the town)

We almost had too much fun in Colombia.

D-town, The Cowboy, The Architect, and Lily con pelo rojo y natural. Ha!

Natalia was a fun girl to hang out with at La Casa de Cerveza.

The Cali zoo is incredible.
This is the largest freshwater fish in the world!! It lives in the Amazon river. (Dony, it's calling you!)

Watch out boy!

The anteater is one of the weirdest animals I have ever seen. (It's tongue is a half of a meter long to slurp up ants out of holes. God I love evolution.)

I love Cali!! The people here are as crazy about Salsa music as I am.

Dustin and Lily had a great time at the concert featuring Grupo Niche.

I had a great time at the concert dancing salsa with my new friend Andrea.

Dustin would communicate using sign language sometimes in Colombia. Here we are actually playing cheerades in Spanish at the end of the night. Damn that's tough. We were at Sandra's friends Olga's place and started with a dance party... ie me putting on music and dancing salsa with the girls in the room. When I screamed "Fiesta de Olga dos mil ocho es la bomba" Olga told me her parents and grandma were sleeping in the other room.

There is nothing better than downing a huge bowl of Chicha at a bohemian type bar rockin out ACDC in Bogota.

At a dance club with new Aussi, Isreali, and Colombian friends in Bogota.
Back row (John, Alejandra, Rocio's BF, Dustin)
Front row (Russ and Kane)

You learn something new everyday in your life. One day in Bogota, Colombia in the beginning of January I learned that it is always good to pretend like you are a cowboy riding a horse when entering a circle of girls dancing. Pass the cowboy hat to a girl and let the hat do the magic...ie two girls dancing with each other

Russ (in the middle) gets a special credit for wearing a Fresh Jive shirt. Thank you for promoting the Fresh Jive Russ.

The Dominican Life ... so far

Welcome to the Dominican Republic Baby!

Don't mess with me wave. I'm coming to get you.

This was our ride on the beach when I spent Thanksgiving with my parents and some friends on the beach.

I'm hangin out with Dad, Amy, and Mom on the Beach for Thanksgiving. (Mom was taking the picture.) It was my first Thanksgiving on the beach.

Sunset in Las Terrenas

Little dude with fish

My friend Amy on a beach in Barahona.

The road to paradise and pooping behind a bush.

Bahia de las Aguilas was one of the coolest places I have ever camped in my life. The water was so clear with an incredible light blue tinge. Bill, Mark, Amy and I cooked our food over the fire every night and swam, played frisbee in the water, and snorkeled everyday.

Ball games are crazy and funny in the DR. My friend Bill once said, "It is a party where a baseball game just happens to be taking place." Between every pitch they would crank up the latin music. Even when a person walked to first base they would cheer like someone hit a homerun. No one hit a homerun that game, but I am sure they probably would have stopped the game and had a dance party on the field. There were girls between innings dancing on the dugout of the home team. (Big Draws, you would have loved it!)

If you want to get Gin and Juice at a ball game...it's all good.

This is my crib in the DR