Another Colombian Holiday - Oh Darn!! Villa de Leyva

One of the perks of teaching at an international school is that we celebrate all Colombian holidays as well as American Thanksgiving. Since we had a four-day weekend last weekend we decided to go to a tiny town about 3 hours outside Bogota. Jenn, Tara and I flew to Bogota and then got on a bus, but my hat goes off to our other friends who took the curvy 12 hour bus ride from Cali. Can any of you imagine me on that bus ride? I would have to take a lot of drugs to survive that!!!

Villa de Leyva is a beautiful town and it even has a French Bakery (we ate there at least 2x a day)! We stayed at a cute bed and breakfast, went horseback riding, shopping and walking around town. We also brainstormed all details of a pipe dream about how we could open a school there.

Halloween Shenanigans

Jenn and I had a Halloween bash at our house. Costumes were a must and people got creative. I think my feet are still recovering from those platform shoes! Click on the link to see more photos.

Back in Cali

So far this year, things are good. Much more tranquilo than last year. I guess it helps that my year didn't start off with losing my life's belongings!

School is good. I have a very cute class and I definitely have more time to do interesting things with them now that I know what is going on and how everything works.

Outside of school I am still doing lot of Yoga and we try to go to our "finca" (like a cottage) up in the mountains as much as we can. Right now Jenn and I are taking a cooking class on Saturdays. The theme is Mediterranean. I haven't done much traveling yet, but now is the time of year where there are a lot of long weekends, so we have plans in the works to do some traveling. We will go to Villa de Leyva in 2 weeks and then for Christmas Fabian and I will go and meet my Mom and Dad in Cartagena for a week and hopefully spend another week traveling too.

This is me in Ginebra.  

Lost in Colombia

I know I have been M.I.A. since I came back to Cali in August, so here is my new solution to keeping in touch... as soon as I figure out how it works.

Coming soon.....

Summer photos
Shan and Jenn's Halloween Party