THEY'VE ARRIVED - all of them!

Yesterday Katie and Ryan arrived!

It was a long day of last minute details to organize and a visit with HEATHER!
I knew Heather from my NYC days and now she's living in BA with her Australian boyfriend, Mark. She and I haven't chatted since before their trip to China. She is now pregnant and due in 6 weeks. I was happy to bring her a bag of clothes from her dad. So they came to the house to meet Rommel and I for tea!! We had a fabulous Chinese tea - whose name escapes me - begins with a "p". It was so nice to visit with her and eat her yummy muffins and have tea. They had great stories to tell and she looks so fabulous! We plan to get together again after the tour.

Katie, Ryan, Rommel and I went for a stroll and ended up at Flabella! We got Ms. Katie a couple pairs of cute comfortable shoes and I put a pair on reserve as well!!!!

At around 8pm we met up with BRAIDY! One of my ASU students who is doing a study abroad here in Belgrano.
She is so cute and having a great time here!
We went for a stroll in San Telmo and went for pizza. I had a salad and Faina - YUMMY!

Here's Ryan and Katie too!


We also went to a milonga last night - i crashed for a couple of hours and we went to Salon Canning. We left at 12:00 midnite and stayed until about 2:30am or so - It was a pretty mellow nite - not so many people - but we were able to see some beautiful follower's perform. The evening was called "poker de las reinas".
It included performances by Melina Brufman, Sabina Masso, Ariadna Naveira, and Marian Dragone. It seemed that the favorite performance was by Ariadna - and i would have to agree. She was gorgeous and brilliant - she was pretty well matched energetically to her partner. It's interesting to see how important it is for the leader to be a similar energy level to his follower or to be clear in his intention to the music and to his partner. All these followers were beautiful and powerful in their own rites....

So today the rest of the gang arrived and most are napping right now - which is what i'd like to be doing soon - i will go eat with katie, ryan, and rommel.
We have a meeting at 8pm with empanadas and vino tonite and then off to a milonga tonite..

Looking forward to all of this!