Adventures in Colombia
Posted by Kristen on Mar 21, 2008 in Uncategorized | 15 commentsSeth’s parents arrived on the 12th of March. We went out of town for an overnight with them last Friday night to Guasca which is about an hour north of Bogota. We stayed in a beautiful, quaint little bungalow-type place that his parents had read about in the Chronicle. It was in a valley surrounded by beautiful mountains. The rooms were nice with little fireplaces to keep them warm and little vases of fresh roses. We tried their famous recipes for dinner and met the owners from Houston.
As we walked around the first day I told Seth we should just go ahead and stay another night since it was so nice. That was before we went to bed. A man came in to build our fire and we quickly realized that charcoal popping and flames flickering were something we were not used to sleeping with. Jackson was screaming and quite confused by the light show. We finally fell asleep. A couple of hours later I rolled over and saw Seth jump. I asked if he was ok, he said he had just been hit in the head by a june bug that had made a crash landing. We searched the bed and didn’t find it. A little unsettling but we tried to go back to sleep. A short time later I awoke to the sound of another approaching flying bug….I could hear it getting louder and louder as it approached. It thudded onto my pillow. As I laid there trying to ignore our situation I looked up to see the june bug propped up on my sheets right in front of my chin. As we fell asleep again, something caused the guard dogs to get excited and they stood outside our room for an hour “guarding us”. When the dogs quieted down we finally dosed off. At 3:30 AM, Jackson woke up just howling. He was still in the process of cutting his two bottom teeth. He was inconsolable for about an hour. It was about then that I told Seth that if his parents hadn’t been with us we would have loaded up the car and driven back to Bogota in the middle of the night. Their room was lovely and they slept great. Turns out our room had a crack in the wall significant enough that bugs, large bugs, could crawl right in. Ironically, we might go back in the future but we will for sure request a different room. Here are some snap shots from the weekend.
On Sunday afternoon we all went to the market in Usaquen. Joe met his first pig head and our beloved camera took a fateful fall. We bought an oil painting and “kind of” captured a picture with the painter.
I made a comment to Seth that the more we leave “home” for our adventures, the more home feels like home. One last funny story on the home front…this week we requested a rug from the Embassy housing dept because Jackson will soon be crawling on our hardwoods and we want him to have a soft area to crawl. We were pleasantly surprised when the day we requested it they bustled over with a rug. I was on my way out the door so they convinced me that it was new and in great condition, we signed for it and rushed out the door. When we got home to roll the rug out it was more than damp. Sonia said, “they specifically said it wasn’t wet”. Now why would you ever think to say something is “not wet”. After a day and a half of propping the rug on 6 dining room chairs we called in and got them to switch out the “not wet” rug. Only in Colombia! Beware of people who warn you using such words.
“Adventures” is definitely the right word for it! Good grief! I was a little unsettled finding a dead worm in Eli’s bedroom, here in Texas!
Glad to see Jackson is getting some use out of his Texas Tech gear! Let us know when he grows out of it and what else you might want with the double T on it. 😉
Good to hear Joe and Jo Beth got some time with you guys.
Holly
“Adventures” is definitely the right word for it! Good grief! I was a little unsettled finding a dead worm in Eli’s bedroom, here in Texas!
Glad to see Jackson is getting some use out of his Texas Tech gear! Let us know when he grows out of it and what else you might want with the double T on it. 😉
Good to hear Joe and Jo Beth got some time with you guys.
Holly
“Adventures” is definitely the right word for it! Good grief! I was a little unsettled finding a dead worm in Eli’s bedroom, here in Texas!
Glad to see Jackson is getting some use out of his Texas Tech gear! Let us know when he grows out of it and what else you might want with the double T on it. 😉
Good to hear Joe and Jo Beth got some time with you guys.
Holly
How I love your adventures. I also spotted the proud Red Raider gear! How much fun are you guys having…so jealous.
How I love your adventures. I also spotted the proud Red Raider gear! How much fun are you guys having…so jealous.
How I love your adventures. I also spotted the proud Red Raider gear! How much fun are you guys having…so jealous.
RE: your comment on my post
I do need to add that book to my “Reading Future” page. We were never assigned that book in high school, so I missed it. I imagine I’ll cry a lot as I read about books burning….. Or maybe not.
Oh and I got my thesis in to my committee yesterday! Woohoo! Now the countdown to being challenged on my decisions begins!
RE: your comment on my post
I do need to add that book to my “Reading Future” page. We were never assigned that book in high school, so I missed it. I imagine I’ll cry a lot as I read about books burning….. Or maybe not.
Oh and I got my thesis in to my committee yesterday! Woohoo! Now the countdown to being challenged on my decisions begins!
RE: your comment on my post
I do need to add that book to my “Reading Future” page. We were never assigned that book in high school, so I missed it. I imagine I’ll cry a lot as I read about books burning….. Or maybe not.
Oh and I got my thesis in to my committee yesterday! Woohoo! Now the countdown to being challenged on my decisions begins!
Oh, wait, the book was almost on my list! Silly Seth!
Oh, wait, the book was almost on my list! Silly Seth!
Oh, wait, the book was almost on my list! Silly Seth!
It’s not that I can see into the future. It’s that those are the books I want to read in the future–my “to read” list. Sill, silly Seth
It’s not that I can see into the future. It’s that those are the books I want to read in the future–my “to read” list. Sill, silly Seth
It’s not that I can see into the future. It’s that those are the books I want to read in the future–my “to read” list. Sill, silly Seth