What now?

So Sentencia went very well on Thursday. In fact Carolina said that it was "perfect." They asked a lot of questions of Angia snd Camilo and basically how they felt about things and what their expectations are. ICBF is REALLY focused on establishing the family. They really discourage interraction with freinds from school, the orphanage etc. And how do you tell a 15 year old girl that she cannot talk with her friends? It's a sticky spot between establishing "bonds" (which we already have) and establishing respect for each others feelings between parent and child. Anyway all in all the Sentencia was really no big deal.

Yesterday was rainy and kind of overcast again and since we have a few trips planned for the coming weeks, We decided to go to the other side of town to the Colombian National Museum. We decided to take in our children's history and get some pictures and such for them to reflect on later. The Museum was very nice, architecturally beautiful and well organized. I think that Camilo got a little bit bored at the end but, I think everyone enjoyed it. It was very cheep to visit too. I would recommend especially to adoptive parents with "older" children.

After the museum we walked down the street and ate at Subway for lunch. They had less of a selction than the ones in the U.S. and wer definately more expensive but still, it was good. Then we walked down the street for a bit and even though Jim wanted to explore my overiding concern for catching a taxi was the catalyst for us to walk back toward the museum where I felt we had a better chance. It was getting to be rush hour there were obviously many people trying to hail cabs and I had this feeling that if we walked one block too far we could go from a "safe" area a sketchy area. I also wanted to ensure that we were back "home" before dark which seems to happen quickly here.

When we got home we did the usual Skyping and ordered another pizza from Red Box which was diappointing, even tough I specifically pointed to the tomato sauce it did NOT have any sauce on it, just cheese and peperonni AGAIN. And it was not cheep like close to $20 for one large pizza. Either I'm gonna take a shot at making my own or we have to find a new place.

Overall Bogota is nice, pollution and taxi rides aside, (I swear we get CO poisoning everytime we ride in one) in our area- Cuidad Salitre, there is a nice sense of community. We are getting to know one some of the people like Magda at the laundry-mat. I think I will be in culture shock when I go home and I'm not two blocks away from everything, there's not security or Police EVERYWHERE (and thank God for that) and calm traffic.

I think today will be a do nothing sort of day and tomorrow we will go to a flea market called La Fantana- they serve brunch so how bad can it be? Tuesday we are planning on the Salt Cathedral with Jorge and then Saturday I want to go to Hard Rock for an early Father's Day celebration before Jim leaves (I'm already freaking out about that.) We might try to hit a park somewhere in there too! Enjoy some pictures of The National Colombian Museum!