Trying to fly to Costa Rica Ok so the plan was to leave the last party at about 3 to get to the airport for 4 to catch our flight at 6. We left about on time and stopped for a coffee with Mario before he dropped us off at about 4.20. We went to check in straight away but were told we couldnt board the flight unless we could prove we had an onward flight out of Costa Rica...which we didnt as we hadnt got around to booking one yet! So after discovering there wa...

Dallas Bachata Festival. The next 2 days passed in a blur of dancing, lessons and very little sleep, as you'd expect from any self respecting congress!! Some highlights include our 2 private lessons and the shows. Our 1st private lesson was with Jorge Contreras at 6pm on Sat 15th. We met Jorge in Alaska where he taught at the Festival and really liked his style back then, we also joined in one of his weekly lessons when we went to LA which was really good and...

Horses, Cheese and Dancing!!! Our last day of lie in, so we made the most of it , getting up around 2 and then going shopping with Mario. We were having a BBQ with his family before dancing that evening and needed some supplies. After getting most of the bits at Walmart, Mario had heard our cries for 'real' cheese and took us to a place called central market which has foods from all over the world and so, naturally is quite expensive! We did however find some...

Longhorn Cattle Drive. After a good sleep we eventually got up around 1 for some egg and bacon Mario had cooked for us. Then we headed out to The Stockhouse which is a Western style town with cowboy shops a rodeo arena and various other tourist gift shops. We chatted to a lady cowboy for a while and saw a young girl ride a bull down the street!! We actually came to see a cattle drive which happens everyday at 11:30 and 4. After a quick look round we found a spot...

Flying to Dallas We had to get up early as we needed to catch the 8:15 shuttle to the airport, but at least that meant we could have more pancakes as we printed off our flight details. We found that Roger had dropped Mae's jumper (that she'd left in the park) off at reception so we collected it before heading off. The shuttle, check in and flight all went quite smoothly and we arrived in Dallas at around 2pm where we met Mario from Alaska and his brother Rober...