Nearby

Michael Jackson impersonator street performer, just a half block from our house. We usually had a street performer playing the violin just around the corner from our house every Friday afternoon, close enough we could hear it with the windows open.

There were the statue guys and transformers a couple times too.

I thought this old hacienda was so pretty. There was still horses in the field next to it.  Leo used to live around here as a kid and he was always turning old man on us when we drove through that area--"There was only fields here when I was a kid!" etc. 

The only Gatorade worth drinking and not available in the State.  SO sad!

The pretty corner by our house.

There are so many dog walkers in Bogotá.  At the Spanish school I attended, one of the teachers said that over 80% of Bogotanos had a pet dog. I completely believe it.  Outside the major hardware store (like Lowe's or Home Depot) there were dog crates you could keep your dog in while you shopped.  But most places (like the mall) you could just bring your dog in with you.  There was no such thing almost as a dogs not allowed.  Also at Pricesmart there was these short little hitching posts that you could tie your dog to to leave outside while you shopped.  

Roses delivered by motorbike. 

Crazy monkey children.  Efraim and Jubal lived in those trees every afternoon at the park while Nicolas played soccer.  Sometime Jubal would play soccer (he played goalie) but not nearly as much as he climbed trees. 

Oh, one time at the park, this guy had his soccer ball stuck in a tree (not these ones in the photos) super high up in the branches that were a long distance from the trunk.  He was trying to throw another soccer ball up to dislodge it, and finally I sent Nicolas home to get Sebastian, and Sebastian climbed the tree (about 15-20 ft up) and crawled a little ways out onto the limb, and then the guy passed him this 10 ft pole that was left by crew doing construction I think, and Sebastian managed to stretch that out the rest of the way to the end of the limb and knock the soccer ball loose.  There was a crowd old people by that point and they all cheered for him.   A few of the old ladies remembered us after that and would always say hi, even months later.