Week 4

Hello all,

Today marks the begining of our 4th week here in Bogota. Athena is growing before our eyes. A few of her sleep-n-plays and onesies that fit her when we first got here, are getting too short on her now. Granted, the clothes dryer for us to use here at the hotel practicaly incinerates anything you put in it, so her clothes may be shrinking a bit:) We really think she has grown though! We made it through the weekend after the vaccinations and Athena's fever was gone by Sunday evening. Today we went out for lunch with Ann, Comillo and August. We went to a Brazilian restaurant and it was quite the experience. They have this system where they bring out 16 different types of grilled meat for you! Every few minutes they bring out the next one, big slabs of meat skewered on big sword-like grilling sticks. They take a huge knife and slice a piece off right onto your plate. We all tried all 16 of them and were ready to be rolled out when we were done. John's favorite was the lamb & beef tenderloin. My favorite was the buffalo and believe it or not, the chicken kindeys. We all agreed that the grilled cow udder was "udderly" disgusting.

Tomorrow will be a slow day as it is a Colombian holiday similar to our Labor Day in the US. I'm not sure if anything will be open or not. Wednesday we are going to an emerald dealer to learn about emeralds (a large export for Colombia) and if we can find something in our price range, hopefull buy a necklace or something to give Athena when she is older.

Love from Bogota,

Nic, John and Athena