The Pro Am Tournament

Yesterday was an awesome day, not only because there was no school because of the Transportation Strike, (which by the way made this entry possible), because the Pro Am Tournament took place in my club (Country Club de Bogota). Celebrities from the whole country were playing golf on the golf course I glance at every morning form my window. Camilo Villegas, Juan Pablo Montoya, and other huge characters were playing golf downstairs, a few meters away! I personally couldn't believe it myself, and we decided to follow the players during their round. (Note: this tournament was sponsored by Helm Bank- the bank where my mother has worked for the past 25 years- as part of their publicity campaign to display their new image). In effect it was true! We saw a bunch of PGA players (which by the way came for the PGA Nationwide Tour which begins tomorrow in my club. Yes, my club is very special), almost got hit by a TV host called Calero, and watched the world famous Camilo Villegas play. Man, is he awesome! I honestly can say I have never seen such a powerful drive in real life. You wouldn't believe the size of his muscle arms. The typical golf player is fat and rather wimpy. Well I have to say Villegas is anything but the typical golfer. He is tall, thin and, as I mentioned before, has incredible arms (wow, I think I'm taking too long on the description). Anyhow, I thought the experience had ended there. We had to go to our swimming training and later go home and go to bed early so the shock of having school again wouldn't be so hard. We certainly didn't expect what was coming next.

I mentioned earlier that my mom's bank was the one sponsoring the tournament. While we were mercilessly massacred by our swimming trainer (I think he got over excited with the golf event. His passion is golf, and he always stares away to the start of the thirteenth hole with a wispy look), my mom was able to get invitations for the inauguration party. Surprisingly (no wait, not surprisingly, because she always makes the impossible possible), she got some for us! We got in just in time to see Andres Lopez, the most famous and extremely hilarious comedian Colombia has ever seen. I stood on tip toes the whole show, utterly stunned I could actually see him in real life. There are simply no words to describe my happiness. But things just get better. I noticed that every time he made a joke about Nascar, there was someone in front of me that kept giving him the thumbs up. I realized then that Juan Pablo Montoya was standing about a meter away from me! After the show, he sat down, and we were dying for a picture with him. But I thought, “sure, he's going to give you, a snooty fan, a picture." Suddenly, he stood up and started to walk slowly towards Lucia. He made a quiet sign and before I understood what was happening, he went and hugged Lucia! This was completely stunning, and seriously, I'm not making this up. All I could do was stare amazed as Lucia started babbling everything we had planned to say ever since we new Juan Pablo Montoya was coming to our club. Hopefully he understood something, and he asked if we wanted to take a picture with him. We did (I think I looked horrible, but I don't care. I have an official picture standing next to Montoya!), and then we got out. It was just too much emotion in too little time. I mean, this is exactly the guy I woke up early on Sundays to watch race the Formula 1. I saw him win Monaco, and every time I wished he'd do well. Now I see him in Nascar racing those stock cars at 300mph. He inspired us to start racing; this is my personal hero and I have a picture taken beside him in the most awesome party I've ever been too.

I think that was too much happiness for me in one night, because I have never had so many awesome things happen to me at once. I declare that night I was the happiest girl in the world (apart from Lucia; she got hugged).
I may post the picture with him later, as soon as I can get my hands on it!