a sneak peek at colombia :) it was a BEAUTIFUL country. just amazingly beautiful! (i am going to post tons of pictures to my flickr account in the next few days) paola's family was SO hospitible and loving and giving. my spanish actually started to come together towards the end of the trip and paola's family was really impressed with my effort, which made me feel good.
i probably sounded like a 3 year old talking, but i don't care! we spent christmas eve, christamas day and the day after christmas with her family, then left for 3 days to the central andean range (the coffee region) and then came back for the 30th, new year's eve and left on the morning of the 1st. we stayed in cali for 2 nights with her cousin neto and his wife vanessa and stayed at a small community outside of cali, palma seca, with her uncle carlos and his family. carlos' house was amazing, they are both gardeners and agri engineers and had mango trees, lemon trees, chiriyoya and coconut and last but not least, avocado trees!! and they were the biggest avocados i've ever seen!! i ate so much avocado, in fact i gave my meat away in order to eat more avocado at two different meals and they looked at me like i was crazy, lol!!! but they were SO DANG good, who needs meat? carlos' wife also is a master orchid grower and it was so beautiful being at their house...i felt like i was in a tropical sanctuary.