I had such an amazing time last week in Miami.. Our Adventure began Thursday night, Poncho,Kanelo and I arrived to the Ontario Airport to catch our 1255am flight to Orlando, Fl. Yes a RED EYE, my first one ever and i did not like it at all. Anyhow, we finally arrived in Orlando on Thursday at 11:15am because our flight was slightly delayed coming out of IAH airport in Houston, TX. But we were happy to be there, safe and sound. Our Good Friend Eric Lopez picked us up at the airport along with his mom, it was so good to finally see him again after several months and meet his momma, whom we all talked to but never met in person! La Famosa Chrissy!! lol I caught a glimpse of Orlando as we got on the road to Miami.. All I can say is wow, really beautiful and did I mention that there are lakes everywhere?!?!?!?!? Lakes, everywhere and you are able to pull over and fish in the lakes umm pretty much anywhere you want.. We arrived to our hotels, checked in.. We stayed at the Westin in Coral Gabel and loved it, that evening we had dinner and had dessert at Houstons, so so so yummy! The next day we went to meet up with everyone at Expolit, it was sooo coool to meet so many different people in the industry, and we also ran into our Good Friend Andy Andrade from the band Sueno de Heroe.. So happy they signed a distribution deal with Vida, and were there promoting their new album!! hung out with Eric, whom introduced us to everyone and their mommas, Eric is the bomb!! We networked alittle in the exhibitors arena, then took off to Mary Alessi's church for an integrity Sound Check. Their church is gorgeous, the interior decoration was lovely! We arrived and met Ingrid Rosario, and then were escorted inside to start sound check with Eric Lopez. The Band that integrity hired as phenominal, the director was Ingrid Rosario's husband/drummer.. We went thru Eric 's songs twice, it sounded perfect.. i was way nervous though because I had to fill in for christine during rehearsal and do her leads to Devuelveme, in front of Ingrid Rosario and Ana Laura-Chavez.. yeaaaaaah super nerve racking but I got thru it, wink wink, hehe. Then after we returned to Expolit Event to watch/support our friend Christine D'Clario in Concert that night. She ROCKED!!! she debuted her new music video- Padre Nuestro and it was soooo great! The concert was really long, jajajaja.. but we made the best of it! After the Concert Eric, took us to a famous Cuban restuarant called La Carreta.. wow, never had cuban food before but it was delicious.. Saturday we woke up early, went to have breakfast, then got ready and went to sound check at 4pm.. there we met all the Integrity Artists we hadn't met yet.. We saw Julissa and Mike, it was great to see them again, she looked beautiful as always, we met Kari Jobe- wow, anointed!! We met Freddy Rodriguez- love his music, Ana Laura-Chavez and Danilo Montero were also there.. Sound check was cool, poncho and I switched out with the other BGV's that were singing for the other integrity artist other then Eric Lopez, he decided to get is own, hahahahaha!!!! After soundcheck we just kinda hung out there at the Expolit hotel and helped Eric get ready for the big concert.. We're such good friends. I didn't do much just approve his outfit, hahah ;)!!!! we walked over to the event around 830, and took our seats.. That evening was so awesome. Integrity put together a really great concert and all the artists did very well!! I especially loved, Kari Jobe, Eric Lopez and Freddy Rodriguez' sets because I could sing along to their songs.. But I also enjoyed julissa and danilo montero- he ministered in such an amazing way, I was in tears.. So all in all, it was a great nite. Our awesome friend Eric, chose to hang out with us over all the integrity artists that evening after the show and we along with christine/carlos/stephanie and chris went to flannigans for dinner! Good Times, laughs and great conversations.. I'll never forget christines analogy in the parking lot, deeeep.. and she scared the heck outta poncho!!! lol
Sunday we slept in, kinda then drove to the expolit hotel to pick up Eric and Crissy.. Then we drove to thru South beach and down town Miami a bit.. Sooo beautiful! then drove home to Orlando in much much RAIN, finally I saw all the thunder storms and lightning that my iphone was talking about thru yahoo weather, lol..... We hung out that evening, poncho and I cooked.. Monday we saw Orlando a bit.. loved the mall, loved the sites, went to bahama breeze-yummy. It pretty much rained all day sunday/monday/tuesday so we pretty much stayed in doors.. then tuesday we got up got ready, and suddenly an hr before we had to leave to airport, poncho realizes he does not have his passport not identification to fly back home. He had left his passport at the hotel in Miami.. uuuuugh, we were worried he wouldn't be able to fly, that he'd have to stay and make arrangements to get a FL id or something... he was about to cry, lol..jk
so finally I called the airline and explained the situation. They assured us that they can make arrangements when he checked in. He just had to go thru additional screening and luckily he had a costco card with his name and photo on it.. God is good!! We arrived in Ont last night around 8pm, and I said goodbye to my traveling buddies. Kanelo and Poncho!!! We had a great time and miss our FL friends but we're happy to be home and now back to reality.
