day 03 : casting. yay.

Daniel and I have a long day of casting. We start at 9am (finally, a chance to sleep in a LITTLE). I meet Angela, the translator Daniel has hired. And Jaime, the casting director. Also in this particular casting office is Julio who runs the place, and his assistants Ivan and Melvin. We got off to a rocky start, but quickly found a groove, as potential Serafina's come rushing in, one after another.

While Daniel and I were busy casting, Jason and Jamie took a nice morning off, checking out some sights around Bogota. We all met up afterwards around 7 or 8 at the hotel. Daniel and I stay in to get some work done, while Jason, Carlos and Jamie take off for dinner.

Upon their return, we decide to go out and grab drinks (again) but Daniel isn't feeling too well (I warned him not to eat his leftover salmon without reheating it...). Jason, Carlos, Jamie and I head off to a club Carlos knows. Turns out its way to early for them to be open, so we head to a mariachi bar. As we walked into the door, we were greeted by blaring horns, but sadly, as soon as we reached our seats, they stopped. We stuck around, beers in hand, hoping for their return, but the mariachi band never came back out. Que lastima...

But by then it was time to head back to the club nearby. We went in, had a few more beers, and suddenly decided it was a night to rally. We called up Daniel, and decided to check out a bordello called La Piscina. Carlos, Jamie and Jason took off in one cab, I went to go get Daniel. After some deliberation on my part, we jumped in a cab to meet up with the rest of the guys.

After a thorough pat down, we entered a labyrinth of people, a chlorinated smell in the air mixed with alcohol, cigarettes and god knows what else. The other three guys are at a table waiting for us with a bottle of rum. A smarmy, drunk man would not leave us alone, another patron, continually getting up in front of us and trying to shake our hands. At least he was in a good mood. We saw some... questionable and disturbing and fascinating and wild and crazy things that night. You'll have to ask each of us our own take on it, but we definitely had a fun night out with each other. Sorry, can't take pics in there so no way to show you, but trust us, it would definitely blow your mind.

We grab two taxis back to the hotel, fairly inebriated ourselves but not worse for wear. Another long day down...