Monday, July 16, 2012

No Internet for Three Days—Catching Up




We leave Aruba
Today (Thurs 12 July) we woke up and went to the butterfly farm again. Then we went to a Belgian restaurant for lunch. After that we went to get our bags and drove to the airport. When we got there we found that the plane was on time, and when we got on it took off early.
On the plane they give us a small dinner.
There were very long lines for everything when we landed. We were worried we wouldn’t make it in time because the people at the apartment were only staying until 9pm. Luckily we got there on time, half squashed to bits in a micro-sized taxi.







First day in Colombia
In the morning (Fri 13 July) we went shopping at a big Carrefour in a mall near the apartment.
They don’t have a metro system yet in Bogota. Instead they have a bus system which runs very much like a metro. There are two different types of bus. There are those that stop at every stop and there are express buses that miss out a few stops. The buses have their own special road so you go a lot faster than the average traffic does. It is called Tranmilenio.
We took the bus for ten stops to go and see the Gold Museum in Bogotá. They had a gold shell, gold breastplates used for rituals, little gold figures that looked like space invaders and bronze and copper artefacts. 
We went and bought a hat for Lucy because she lost her old one in the harbour in Willemstad in Curaçao.
The Old Part of Bogotá
We spent the day (Sat 14 July) looking at museums and old houses in Candalaria in the middle of Bogotá. First we went to see a museum that was about all the different clothes that people from this region of South America used to wear. Then we went to see a museum of colonial art. In one of the pictures there was a lady who looked like she was holding an iPad which was turned off. There was a chart that showed how Chinese and Japanese ideas passed through Europe to South America and got muddled so they were entirely different from the originals. Another chart showed which empires had which parts of South and North America. The empire that the most was the Spanish Empire and the part that had the least was France. It also showed which things were getting imported where. 
Next we went to the Military Museum. There they had all sort of different weapons and uniforms from different times. They had cutlasses, old pistols, missile launchers, and mortars. They also had cabinets full of medals including some very rare ones that only get given to people if they do something extremely brave. There were a lot of Chinese medals. 
After that we went to a restaurant for lunch. The family who owned the restaurant said that in a short time they would be flying to Calgary to live the mother’s sister. There was a boy who was nine years old like me. He was learning English and he was doing very well. We talked for a long while because he and I like a lot of the same things including chocolate, Club Penguin, and Cartoon Network. After a long time talking and playing about we finally left. Daddy was a little annoyed because there wasn’t enough time left to go to the Pre-Columbian Museum so instead we went to a church. 



3 comments:

  1. Love the picture of you with the butterflies. However I think that 3 museums in one morning is way too many, and then Daddy wanted to go to another one after lunch??????

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  2. I liked the photo of you in the hat. Did daddy buy it for you??

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  3. Kowfu: Yes daddy brought the hat for me.

    Auntie Wendy: Thank you for the comment. I agree three is too many.

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