Futbol...Gooooooooooool

party at the Catholic school

new friends

adventures in funky fruits

rocking my soccer shirt 

Colombian spirit  

Macuya, granadilla and guanaban

Diego in his soccer jersey

our new friends

uno, dos, tres, goooooo!

Diego woke up at 6:00 this morning saying "apagado" which means off.  He is funny, he uses that word for lots of things.  Today was the world cup game where Colombia played the Ivory Coast.  The partying started at about 6:45 this morning.  There were people screaming and blowing horns and cars were honking all morning.  Diego and I wore our soccer shirts to cheer on the Colombian soccer team.  After yesterdays excitement we decided to have a low key day.  We played outside for a while and then Diego was ready for a nap.  Diego was too tired to even eat his lunch.  Ben put him down for a nap and we watched the soccer game.  It was fun to watch the game here and to see and hear how excited everyone would get.  Every time Colombia scored a goal the honking and screaming would start up again.  We watched the game on the local channel and the announcer spoke so fast that he sounded like an auctioneer.  When the game ended and Colombia won, you could hear the partying in the streets.  Directly across from our hotel there is a Catholic school.  When the game ended the children poured out of the classrooms and were screaming and cheering.  They all had Colombia jerseys on.  They kept the screaming up for a long time.  We stayed in to avoid the madness in the streets.  Later in the day we went for our daily walk to the market.  Thankfully the streets were calm by the time we went out.  When we came back to our hotel, we played outside for a long time.  It was fun because all four families from our house were out playing.  It's fun to visit with the other families and watch the kids interact with each other.  Colombian children are just absolutely beautiful.  Diego got his energy back and I helped him go down the slide at least 100 times.  He really enjoyed playing with the bubbles that our friend Sarah had.  We had a quick dinner of arepa sandwiches with milanesa (steak) and some Colombian potato chips.  Diego loves potato chips.  I guess we are doing a good job of Americanizing him.  One of my goals for our trip was to try as many unusual fruits as possible.  Today I tried granadilla which is related to passion fruit, it was okay, but I couldn't eat much.  We also tried fig, and a fruit called guanabana.  It is a huge green, spiky fruit.  In the United States it is called sour sop.  It kind of has a sweet and sour taste to it.  It's really strange, but it was tasty.  After dinner I folded laundry while Ben put Diego in bed.  He has a hard time getting to sleep by himself.  At our meeting with the psychologist she said that there were 12 children in his room and they would talk to each other until they would fall asleep.  We just visited with our kids via Skype.  I am so glad we get to see them and talk to them every night.  They are doing well and so is my mom.  There are blessings through this every day.  Tomorrow is a big day.  We will be heading out early to take care of a lot of business.  Friday we should be able to play tourists and do some sight seeing.  Buenos noches.