Ginette Perea and Miguelito in Sevillanas. January 5, 2007 8:29pm (photo by Michael Long)

It's 9:51am on Tuesday as I type these words. These pics are from last week, I know. But hanging out with my friend Michael literally every night the past two weeks had taken its toll on me and during that time, I found myself sleeping in much later than usual and getting up with no time to work on the blog. Oh well. I had a blast while he was here. And I knew that my loyal readers would wait for me, albeit impatiently, until got myself back in front of the computer again. Anywayz, this will be the first of three blog entries that I'll hopefully all publish today.

As you know, the restaurant business slows down a bit during the colder months, so we sometimes have to adapt to the economics of the situation. In this case, I decided to reduce the performers on Friday nights at Cabanas to two: one guitarist and one dancer. I was very pleased, as usual, to be working with dancer Ginette Perea. She absolutely loves to dance and it shows! When you're enjoying yourself onstage, the audience can pick up on this. And even if they don't, we can still say we had a good time.

It was an unseasonably warm night--people were actually sitting at the outdoor patio tables! The turnout was actually pretty decent and a couple of friends (old and new) showed up including Serenity, Rachel, Adrian, Tia and Christina. Serenity and her sister Rachel sometimes come to my Tapeo gig in Pentagon City on Saturday nights. Actually Serentiy did take some flamenco pics for my blog back in November. But for this particular evening, my photographer was Michael Long. Enjoy!