August 13th

Our last day in Colombia, it's on to Orlando tomorrow and then the next day we go home. Manuela and our driver Julian picked us up at 10:00 am for a tour of downtown consisting of a museum of archeological relics and a walk to see the central square, some beautiful old churches and the presidential palace. Unfortunately I was not allowed to take pictures inside the churches but they were unbelievably beautiful. Manuela said that one of the was from the 1500's and the other from the 1600's. I really like Bogotá quite a bit, even more than Calí. If I spoke the language, which we will hopefully continue learning, I could definitely see myself living here. One of the nicest things about Bogotá is that since it is at such a high elevation the weather is very moderate. The average temperature year round is 60-65 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes, you read that right, 60-65 degrees! The weather has been beautiful here the last few days.

After our quick tour we had lunch at a typical Colombian restaurant that was very nice and then went to the embassy to pick up Alexander's visa. We went back to the hotel and then we went for a walk to a different grocery store than yesterday so we were able to see a different part of the neighborhood. We took the main streets which were very busy and loud. On the walk back we took side streets through a quite residential neighborhood with some beautiful Spanish colonial homes. We ended up walking through a very nice and quiet park that had a path that ran through it and the path continued outside of the park and took as all the way to the hotel. It was a wonderful way to end our trip here in Colombia.

This is the guard that yelled at us for getting too close to the fence around the presidential palace.

Mommy dancing with baby. 30 minutes until bedtime...