Salsa is red hot

Well, it is the truth. Whether you get the american version in a restaurant with cilantro (my preference when referring to mexican food) or the often mistaken for foreign salsa which is the dance that was actually invented in the grand old U.S. of A. in New York! Oddly enough more hispanic countries practice this dance. It is so much fun. We salsa-ed four nights in a row last week and we were sooo tired by Wednesday that we had to take a break and just chill. Which is equally as fun and entertaining. Story first though: so it is Sunday night...our very first Salsa dance lesson ever. It was so much fun. We stood in lines and practiced the steps like a dance routine. Until...dun-dun-da...Alfredo. like the sauce and equally as formless. It was fun don´t get me wrong. He looks like a computer science/calculus teacher with glasses he keeps pushing up and pants that are so high up that you can´t quite tell where his chest is. note: salsa is very much about moving the hips. Alfredo has none. he shuffles his feet to make up for this. BUT he despirately wants to dance...with you. YOU who have never had a salsa lesson other than today and with a partner? Well, you just better hope that he is good. But he doesn´t know what he is about to do much less let you know. So he pulls and pushes you around the dance floor until you have severly tripped over yourself and him. KEY to dancing with a partner guys: use firm arms to let the girl know exactly what you are going to do. Better yet, your friends are off to the background laughing histerically and taking tons of pictures. OH yes. You vow never to try it again...until salsa lesson no. 2 at Chicago´s on Monday night.