Fred's Birthday

Wow, last night was awesome.  We closed the bar around 10 PM, and I headed up to Canada Hill (here in Oeste, just about 500 meters away) to a FREAKING AWESOME party celebrating Fred's birthday.  Good old fashioned clean drunk fun with close friends, a killer band from Canada, Martin DJing during the breaks, Carnival costumes, sweaty dancing, and uncontrollable laughing.  I would guess there were about 70 people there, most of whom are friends.  AND MAN DID I DANCE.  Shirtless.  With a pink feather boa around my neck.  Getting down with Ariele, Rachel, Martin, Yolanda, Allison, and all the other crazy gringos from the Hill.  I especially partied and danced hard with the Carolina Crew, who took off today for the airport, which is another goodbye without pain, only with sadness of not being able to hang out with them tomorrow.  Heyword and Amy have decided to move here though, which is freaking awesome, and will be coming back in June.  At one drunk point in the night, I told Robin (part of the Carolina Crew) I wanted to make out with her, and I wanted to share her awesome reply, which she didn't remember when I brought it up this afternoon... Her reply "Do you want to make out with me, or do you just want to make out with someone?" Needless to say, we didn't make out.  

I absolutely love the Carolina Crew, and I think the reason is their openness.  They don't have any shame, they don't judge, they just are who they are, and let everyone else be whoever they are.  They are the first to laugh at themselves, but laugh just as quickly at everyone else.  Today before they took off, Amy made me look at a picture she took some time ago of her poop, that he mother had used to create an animated short cartoon.  I know this sounds a little strange, but it's really not with them.  It's all just fun.  And all of them are this way, it seems, and it makes me feel more comfortable just being myself.  In a way, I aspire to be like them.  And that's cool.  They CERTAINLY don't take life too seriously, they seem to really live in the present, they are cool just being themselves, and they're full of open love.  Cool people.  

In any event, I'm certainly feeling great today, in spite of being exhausted and a little hung over.  I'll post the pictures from last night on facebook and a few of the favorites in a blog as soon as I get them from Amy.  They are probably the first pictures taken of me shirtless with a pink feather boa and a jester hat.  I look forward to getting them.