La noche de los mejores

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Friday night was "la noche de los mejores!" for our clinic. Basically it was an awards ceremony/gigantic party with all the "veteran" workers. I was invited because I'm American, sometimes, being from the US has it's perks!



Anyway, one thing I really love about this country is how good they are at celebrating things. I think this country has more holidays than any other - At least one paid holiday every month, and sometimes more than 3 in a month! I've been to some work parties, and this one takes the cake. It was in a hotel ballroom, it had live dancers, a live band, a huge dance floor, a buffet with real food (not fried food), two desserts, raffles and free drinks. Everyone dressed up fancy, but danced salsa and reggaeton like they were in a regular discoteca. In short, it was awesome.



We laughed a lot, we danced a lot and we had a lot of fun.



I'll tell the rest in pictures

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Photos

Joropo dancers
These little kids started the show off dancing to traditional "llanero" music in a style called joropo.

Joropo
Then, a whole series of cute little kids who are way better dancers than me came out and danced too

live band
they played salsa, merengue, cumbia - really good - if only I knew how to dance!!!

world cup
the theme was based around the world cup, every department had a country, ours, the ICU was Brazil

flamenco dancers
I think the floor nurses were Spain, they presented a flamenco dance. Literally, those are nurses and staff members of the hospital. I don't think you could find that many people to do a dance at a work party in the US.

Typical Colombian rum
complimentary at every table

A bottle for the four people at our table
And we didn't even drink it...

Other dancers
I'm not really sure what you would call this style, it was kind of a bunch of things mixed together. I have a video, but it won't let me upload it...

Samba dancers
These guys made me feel really bad about my dancing abilities. Also, they came out at like 2 AM. FYI, the party didn't even end at 4AM, it was still going strong...Colombia knows how to do it...