El Rio

I was so busy this weekend, it was almost too busy. I went from one thing to the next constantly. It was a really fun weekend though so I can't complain. Friday was one the little Brito cousins first birthday party. I was planning on just going for a couple hours, but ended up being there until late. Waking up for my 7am class the next morning was great. The class went really well though, there were 20+ people there and the lesson went well. When I got home it was almost 9. I made a couple sandwiches and threw some chips in a bag for lunch and took a taxi to La Llovizna. My friend Maria who I had gone there with before was going with some friends for the day so she invited me. There were about 10 of them, it was a lot of fun just hanging out with them, playing games and learning how to make balloon animals. I left there around 3, instead of taking a taxi home I got one instead to Orinokia, the mall. Walked around for a bit and then used the cheap phone booths at the cell phone store to make a couple calls to the U.S. I stopped when if I kept talking for another minute I wouldn't have enough money for the bus home. Hopped in a van and made it home, after being there for just 20 minutes my friends Leibarg and Arianna were walking by and invited me to come watch the baseball game with them. Navegantes vs los Leones, the two big teams in Venezuela. I've been asked a few times which team I support, I usually just say los twins de minnesota but that night I chose the navegantes, because yojan santana played for them. they won, so i chose right.

After a late night at Arianna's house with that group I had to be up at 630am to go to the river with Andreina, Patricia, Paola, Pati and Paola's mom, and a few uncles or something that I never really found out who they were. I walked down to Los Arenales, where they live, and got in the back of a truck for a two hour ride. An hour of that was on a terrible road winding around in the forest. Not my favorite ride. Once we got there though it was great. I'm not sure why they call it going to the river, because it's a lake. But maybe it's connected to the river. It was really pretty, I have some pictures of it that I'll put up. We spent the day there, jumping off the dock, swimming, eating sugarcane which is so delicious, getting sunburned (just me), having hold-your-breath competitions, skipping rocks, etc. It was a great day I had a lot of fun. 

On the way

Patricia

Patricia pushing people in

The house

Whoo front flip off the dock. Took a few tries to get this picture