Sickness befalls the house
Sunday July 7, 2024 -Bogota, Colombia (part 2)-
Long night. Peanut fighting with his dreams since 3 am. Whining but eyes closed then back to sleep. Half hour later, same thing. The bro hire we read said babies wouldn’t infringe upon our sleep. We’ve been tricked again!
Too much around people yesterday! We had fun plans for today but Santi woke up with a headache & chills. He’s not the only one. Claudia is all congested too. Last nights game had diseased people I think.
This coming week is the soccer camp we signed the kids up for. At some point today we need to go pick up uniforms for them. Seems like this will be an awesome camp for both of them (provided Santi bounces back from whatever is going on this morning). This camp is from like 8-4 Monday through Friday. They’re looking forward to it for the soccer. I think we are looking forward to it for the Spanish. Don’t get me wrong, I want my kids to have fun with the soccer too but I’d be lying if I said that was my number one priority.
We did make it out to get the uniforms and let’s just say the directions to the place was not great. We drove around in a circle like 3 times with no luck. We stopped and asked a parking attendant where the address was and apparently this was not somewhere accessible by car. That might have been nice to know ahead of time. Fortunately, we parked the car with the attendant who gave us directions and we walked.
Mariana leads the way looking for the uniform shop BUT…
When we got there they told us it was moved to another location across town. This did not put my sicky-poo wife in a great mood.
Across town we went and yes, finally had success. Actually pretty nice uniforms. I’ll get pictures tomorrow. They are super excited! After seeing his uniform, Santi started feeling better. Go figure.
With everyone feeling a little better, we decided to go back to the neighborhood of Usaquen. On Sundays, they have a huge market with local artisans selling their stuff. It is really cool to see.
Love the umbrellas hanging. Kind of neat.
Took this pic for you mother. Remember the Botero’s? The chubby paintings and sculptures? You loved the heavy naked lady sculpture in Cartagena years ago!
We goofed off there up until mass time at 6:00. Beautiful and old but work has been done to preserve the church. We’ve been here before when we came for Mariana I think. There is a park in front of the church with this certain park bench I remember sitting on while waiting for Clau to return from wherever she went. I remember playing with Nani and having a guy come over and want to shine my ratty tennis shoes. Very fond memories but kind of odd to have that specific memory. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t take pictures inside the church. Andre was wonderful during mass. A bit squirmy. I have been calling him Vishnu. For those who don’t know, Vishnu is a Hindu god (note lower case g) who has 8 arms. That is exactly what Andre is like. During the consecration of the Eucharist, he started acting like he was going to start fussing so I walked to the back of the church. By the way, for 6 PM mass, that place was absolutely packed! Wonderful to see! Anyway, In the Back, I was able to avoid him starting to cry but time came to receive the Eucharist and I got in line and started to the front. Once in front of the priest, he asked for Andre’s name then gave him a blessing. That whole interaction, Andre was frantically grasping for the Host and even made the priest laugh. It was a very cute exchange.
I’ve never seen this painting before. I need to do my homework. This is beautiful. One of Sy Joseph too below.
After mass, we made our way home. That peanut was in an awful silly mood. I got him all cranked up when he should have been winding down. But the laughter was so contagious. Just for a little while, what could it hurt. We gave him a little bottle and put him to bed. No drama or crying. Even he knew it was time.
Other than a bit of sickness, it ended up being a really beautiful day. Prayers for tomorrow as the kids start their soccer camp and we run to get peanuts passport.
Good night all!
Santa Barbara de Usaquen church
