Christmas lights at the park!

Since today was a Saturday we had no appointments and could actually enjoy a relaxing day in Bogota.  We started off by going for a nice walk to the kids hair salon to get Samuel's hair cut and then we took him to get ice cream.  He loves vanilla ice cream!  Then we came to Casa Lanthana and had lunch.  After lunch we walked to the mall, it was a couple miles away, but it was good to get some excercise.  Samuel enjoyed riding in the stroller, so that made it much easier for Jeff.  The mall was very nice and big, but we didn't get anything.  The mall was busy because it was Saturday and people are starting their Christmas shopping. 

The meals are included in our price here which is good and bad.  It's nice to have the meals, but sometimes it would be nice to go out.  The food is okay, but we don't know what we're going to get until they bring it to us and today it was tuna fish, I can't even stand the smell of tuna so I didn't even touch mine.  She asked me if I didn't like it (in Spanish) and I told her I wasn't hungry tonight.  After dinner we asked the French family if they wanted to go to the park with us to see the Christmas lights and so we all walked there together.  The lights were beautiful!  It was nice visiting with the French family, but it's funny because the wife and I speak mostly Spanish to one another and a little of French and English.  Jeff and the husband speak French and English to communicate.  I've heard of "Spanglish" but I'm not sure what the mixture of all three are...lol.  They are very nice and it's good for us to practice other languages.  Actually it makes me want to travel abroad more, but next time with all 3 of the kids of course!  I've always wanted to go to France to visit and see all the museums, maybe one day.

Dalton asked me tonight to post a bunch of pictures.  Since Samuel is always on the go and does not like his picture taken partly because of the bright flash so it's very difficult.  I have deleted many blurry pictures and pictures with Samuel's hand reaching out to block the flash or squinting his eyes.  I'm sure he's only had his picture taken a few times before November 7th verses the hundreds Jeff and I have taken the past four weeks!  So these are for you Dalton (and you too Amelia:)!

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Samuel getting ready to get a much needed haircut.

                                                                            Before

After

Samuel playing with Mr. Potato head.

Bogota, mountains in the background.

Samuel pushing the stroller around at the mall.

Samuel with us at the park seeing the Christmas Lights.

Jeff and I bought a lot of Colombian coffee today!  We are not coffee drinkers, but we hear it's the best and we had many requests to bring some home.