Halloween!

Yay for awesome weekends of good fun! We dressed up, partied it up, and danced it up.... A LOT!! I seriously LOVE dancing down here. I am sorry, but in Canada, we kinda suck in the dancing department at times. We give it a solid effort but there just isn't the love for dancing that there is down here which means we all stand in a circle and kinda dance. Down here guys ask girls to dance and they dance Salsa and meringue and banda and anything you ask for really! Boys, take note, a guy that can really dance.... HOT! There was a church dance on Friday night. Random note: they don't turn the lights off at the dances. It is bright and you can see everyone. AND PEOPLE STILL DANCE!! Imagine that!! Moni and I went dressed as ballerinas to the dance. It was pretty awesome. We made our costumes and they were awesome. The entire night was spent dancing and laughing and taking pictures. It was super fun because I am starting to feel like the Mormon's down here are actually my friends and they actually get my personality. It has been a rough ride, but we are getting there. Plus, for some reason, I all of a sudden can keep up with their conversations!! It is seriously SOOOOOO exciting!!!!! I have really had a hard time with all of the slang and with the fact that 18 people are always talking at once. I haven't spent a whole lot of time with this group of people in the last couple weekends and I think the break did me good! I can understand now and it is great.

After the dance, of course, we went out for tacos. Hahaha! I love the little taco stores here. I am super excited to make them for everyone when I get home. You will like them. I promise. And if you don't, you are crazy. We ended up getting home at around 2 and I was in bed by 2:30 which normally isn't too bad except for the fact that as we were going home a group of us girls decided that we would go and do baptisms at the temple in the morning..... at 8.... meaning I had to be out of the house by 7. Me + 4 hours of sleep??? Hahahaha! Yah. Let's just say that didn't happen and we left late and just cabbed it. When we got to the temple, it was PACKED. We sat and waited for four hours until we were able to get in to do baptisms. It was a SUPER long wait considering I was exhausted and the stupid air conditioning made it soooo cold! But, as usual, the wait was worth it and the temple is still awesome.

After, I went home, ate, cleaned, prepped my costume for the party on Saturday evening and then had a wonderful nap! I decided to go as a Canadian hockey fan to this party. Go Canada!! Problem was that I really didn't have the things that I needed to do so. Hahaha! I don't think I did so bad though with what I had! I was pretty worried about this party. The night before had been awesome because if I didn't feel like talking to people or I was struggling with the language, I could just laugh and then dance and people were okay with it. But, this was a party..... with socializing.... and talking..... and nowhere to hide. Ugh..... Turns out it was totally alright though because, apparently, Mexicans dance no matter where they are! Hahaha! Music was playing all night and I probably spent a good hour or two dancing, which is EXHAUSTING and AWESOME! It was sooooo much fun. Some of the guys down here are complete goofs! Oh, we had a good time dancing like complete fools. After that, we had a skipping competition. Yup.... skipping as in what you did when you were ten. It was hilarious!!!! Here we were in the middle of the street late at night skipping. Oh, I love YSA. After we had had enough skipping, the next logical choice was musical chairs. Hahaha! Oh man. I seriously love little kids games and I am awesome at them! Well, mostly. I came in second both times I got to play mostly because I didn't want to squish the princess like girls I was playing against. That's my excuse and I am sticking to it! I ended up with this wicked scratch down my arms from the game though! It was pretty crazy!

Anyways. It was an awesome weekend and it isn't even done. We still have El Día de los Muertos fun to be had! We are definitely holding an FHE type night at our place and we are playing Murder in the Dark!!!! Oh, the joy of introducing awesome games from home to the crowd down here! Love it!