WOW!!!  What to say about this event???  From the moment we arrived in Sao Paulo, we felt the love from everyone!

We were lucky enough to have some free time on this trip, and got to explore Sao Paulo with our good friends PJ and Tashina, as well as our tour guides Jessica, Vanessa and Gabi. 😉  What a fun and relaxing day….even though it was raining!  After our day off, we all went to the amazing Zouk club called Carioca!  What an experience!!  Maxime and I have never really officially learned how to do Zouk…but we can pretend!!  We had an awesome time going between dancing Zouk and West Coast Swing with all our new Brazilian friends!

The next day was the start of the event….and we were so excited to be a part of the first professional courses, along with John and Jessica, offered with the intention of helping the instructors of Brazil learn how we approach teaching and handling classes!  Everyone was so engaged and so receptive to all we had to share 🙂  We really loved the atmosphere of the classes and hope we can be involved in the same sort of thing next year to help continue the growth here!

The rest of the weekend all ran very smoothly….thanks to everyone involved with making the event happen!

We had a couple more workshops, judged some divisions, danced a social demo in the professional show, but our favorite part was dancing the night away with everyone!!  Brazil has so many amazing and talented dancers, it made the night slip away from us because we were having so much fun!!  The love we felt from everyone at the event was unreal… and we are SOOOOOO happy that we will be coming back next year!!!!!!!

SEE YOU NEXT JULY SAO PAULO!!!! 😉