Out on the Town

After breakfast this morning we decided to do a little site seeing today. The hotel ended up calling the driver we have been using and he took us to "old town" which is the old, orginal downtown of Bogota. We first went to the Gold Museum which was pretty interesting and very nice but we kind of rushed through it due to the kids. It had thousands of gold, copper, and other historical artifacts dating back many thousands of years. It also talked about how these metals were mined and refined and how they were significant in the many accient cultures of South America.

After that we walked down approximately 10 blocks down to the main square. This is were the main govermental buildings are. One side of the square is the building for the Mayor of Bogota, another side is the Congress Building, another side is the main Courts building and the fourth side is the Primary Catholic Church.

Columbia's Independance Day is Tuesday, July 20th so they were in the process of setting up a lot of stuff in the square for a big festival. There were also thousands of pigeons. There were venders selling feed for the pigeons and the boys had a great time feeding them.

Our driver (Herman) then took us to one of the 25 malls in the city and we ate a late lunch and returned to the hotel around 4 pm. Herman is great to us. He is friendly and speaks English fairly well and is always asking to help. I think he carried Kariana half the day while we were tending to the boys and taking in the sites. We pretty much layed low until supper and now we are winding down for the night.

Kariana is getting much more vocal when she wants something. We didn't hardly hear a cry the first couple of days but now she is acting more like what we would concider a normal baby. See has a very strong neck and loves to look at everything. She also has discovered her hands and loves to move and stare at them for minutes at a time.

Tomorrow is Sunday and they don't allow cars on the streets on Sunday so the walking around should be much safer due to not having to cross in front of all the crazy drivers down here. The markets are open tomorrow so we are going to walk to one that is about 5 blocks from here. There is a bigger one that is recommended but it is probably a mile or more away and that is too far for the boys to walk there and back with out a lot of complaining.

Well that is about it for now. I'll post some picture in a little while. Chow!