sorry this has taken so long.

october break
Monday - Friday
Isla San Andres, Colombia.

i left melgar early on monday morning, and took the bus to pereira. the bus was full, so the bus driver invited me to sit in the front with him.. which was super! the roads in colombia are soooooo windy, so my stomach was happy to be sitting in the very front for 6 hours through the andes.
i got in to pereira, met the peeps and proceeded to wait awhile for our delayed flight to san andres (supposedly this is normal: flights are always delayed) i think our plane arrived into pereira at the time we were supposed to be leaving. the turn around was pretty quick though, and then we were off flying into the carribean night... sigh.
we arrived on the island at around 12, got to our really nice hotel, explored, swam in the pools even though we weren't allowed to, hung out at the discotheque with NOBODY there (it's the low season, and it was a monday night) and ended up going to bed way too late.
we slept late and had a beachy, pina colada day on tuesday.
here is a picture of me handstanding in the ocean.


on wednesday morning we rented a jeep for 10 bucks. i was the only one who knew how to drive stick and also had my licence on me, so yep, i was on.
hilarity.
the island was really beautiful, the ocean was the brightest blue and everywhere you looked you could see booeys, where people were diving off the coast.
we stopped at an isolated beach and hung out for awhile. brett made a funny friend who gave him these beautiful shells.
we returned sunned-out to the hotel, napped (this was definitely a daily thing.. yes vacation!) showered, ate, and surprise! christopher called. he was on the island, and was flying from san andres to costa rica on monday. so we hopped an expensive cab ride into town, and went out for a really wild night of salsa, reggae and rum.
oh the island life.
i think that evening we ended up on the beach very late, with a bunch of law students from bogota that we had befriended. i danced for most of the night without shoes, and ended up losing my flipflops to a boy named jorge andres. anyway, i located his and still have them... oops.
we tried to go to their hotel, since they were staying downtown and were planning to continue partying until all hours of the night... but the hotel seemed less than pleased with their group(i think maybe because they had broken a bunch of rules all week, had disturbed all the other families staying there, jumped in the corals head first, that kind of stupid stuff. law students everywhere are the same... crazy.) so they wouldn't let us all in. fair enough. it was time to go home anyway.
thursday was a slow day, but steph and i got up and headed downtown to look around, eat pizza and hang out on the beach down there. i collected some pieces of dead coral for my class.
and then friday was our last day on the island.. we went to the spA! (yesss facials) and hung out by the pool. we got home to manizales really late at night on friday, since our flight (of course) coming from san andres was delayed until 10, and we had to drive 1.5 hours to get home from pereira...

all in all, i spent most of my time in san andres either swimming, lying in the sun, dancing, or napping. and drinking delicious margaritas. i am really good at all of those things.

it was perfect. i couldn't believe i was coming back to a JOB... what?!? I totally forgot about it while i was away.

here are some more candid moments.