Felice cumpleanos
It's 9:30 am, my ears won't stop ringing, my feet and legs are covered with shards of broken glass, but the burn on my elbow only hurts a little. So all in all my birthday is off to a fantastic start.
It really began last night. Dinner at Puma was another delicious meal which CT put together from the grocery - triple cheeze ravioli in great Sauce Putenesca - accompanied by another delicious Malbec selected by me. The dining area was awash with fun. By ~11pm, CT was cerada (this was the day we climbed Cerro Colarado) and headed for bed, leaving me blogging. There was a lot of interest in this PDA with wifi connection to the internet, and bluetooth connection to the keyboard, and I was happy to show it off. About 11:30, Olivier, a young man from France living here for a month and taking Spanish classes, brought out the chocolate fondue. A hilarious feeding frenzy ensued - four young guys, six young women, and me. As things got more raucous, special attention was given to Evita from Spain whose birthday it was - Oct 31 - and whose face was decorated with stripes of chocolate sauce by the company. About then, the clock struck midnight, so I said "ahoa es me cumpleano", and was promptly annointed as well. Twenty minutes later, as the party began to break up, one of the young women said "We're going salsa dancing SC, would you like to come?" "Sure", I said, "let me ask CT if she wants to come too". CT was sound asleep, but roused and once she was convinced I had chocolate and not blood on my cheek, kissed a little bit of it off and said "Happy birthday. I'm going back to sleep, but you go." So off we all went, strolling throught a beautiful warm clear night, to the disco. And I'm reaching deep into my memory, both cerebral and kinetic, working to pull up everything that D & E & T and CT ever taught me about salsa.
To be continued... SC
It really began last night. Dinner at Puma was another delicious meal which CT put together from the grocery - triple cheeze ravioli in great Sauce Putenesca - accompanied by another delicious Malbec selected by me. The dining area was awash with fun. By ~11pm, CT was cerada (this was the day we climbed Cerro Colarado) and headed for bed, leaving me blogging. There was a lot of interest in this PDA with wifi connection to the internet, and bluetooth connection to the keyboard, and I was happy to show it off. About 11:30, Olivier, a young man from France living here for a month and taking Spanish classes, brought out the chocolate fondue. A hilarious feeding frenzy ensued - four young guys, six young women, and me. As things got more raucous, special attention was given to Evita from Spain whose birthday it was - Oct 31 - and whose face was decorated with stripes of chocolate sauce by the company. About then, the clock struck midnight, so I said "ahoa es me cumpleano", and was promptly annointed as well. Twenty minutes later, as the party began to break up, one of the young women said "We're going salsa dancing SC, would you like to come?" "Sure", I said, "let me ask CT if she wants to come too". CT was sound asleep, but roused and once she was convinced I had chocolate and not blood on my cheek, kissed a little bit of it off and said "Happy birthday. I'm going back to sleep, but you go." So off we all went, strolling throught a beautiful warm clear night, to the disco. And I'm reaching deep into my memory, both cerebral and kinetic, working to pull up everything that D & E & T and CT ever taught me about salsa.
To be continued... SC
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