Bogota for beginners

I am blogging from the adoption house computer. My laptop decided to go on the fritz, and not sure I can get her up and running again, so sorry no pics tonight. Today is Saturday, which is the first of three free days here in Bogota. We slept better last night, I think due to exhaustion more then anything. The staff here at the adoption house are great and go out of their way to do anything for you. I took a few pictures, but can´t post them at this time. There outfits kind of remind me of the michelen dough boy commerical. But they are all heart. We ate breakfast, which appeared to be french toast. However, we didn´t have butter or syrup. It was basically bread cooked with the egg batter. Lets just say it was a small breakfast. I asked one of the French families, sense ¨french toast¨should be popular in France. They told me that it is called ¨French toast¨, but they do not eat it there. Interesting...
Tracey, Ruben, and I, ventured out into the streets and walked about 8 to 10 blocks. Bogota has a lot of American food chains here. We passed a Mcdonald´s today. I think we may hit it tomorrow. I´m not usually a Mcdonald´s fan, but Tracey and I are sooo craving anything American right now. They have, what I think is similar to Burger King, but it is called ¨Whopper King¨, subway, domino´s, pizza hut are also here. I think it is safe to say we will not starve. I don´t know which is worse for my cholestorol, all the ¨huevos¨, eggs we have been eating, or all the american fast food I see here.
This afternoon, our representative here took us and one French mother to the mall ¨Unicentro¨, we both needed to pick up some clothes for our kiddos. Ruben is 22 months, but wears 9-12 month clothes, especially pants. Let´s just say the pictures we received before we left, made him look a whole lot bigger. It was another comical outing. Our representative speaks both French and English, but got mixed up, and some times she was speaking to us in french, and the french woman in english. All I know in french is ¨wee-wee¨, i think the french lady thought I was crazy, and my wife just thought I needed to use the bathroom. You just had to be in the car to enjoy the moment.
Tomorrow, we are getting a tour of the salt cathedral outside of Bogota. Apparantely this is an old church underground. Monday, Andres our driver is going to take Tracey, Ruben, and I to the ¨Montisorrie¨ sp. I know I spelled it wrong, but basically you take a cable care like at a ski resort to the top of the mountain and you can see all of Bogota and there is a church there, that is well known and some ¨miracles¨have happened there. I am just praying for one. Getting home safe and sound. Which, we were able to change our tickets today. We are now scheduled to fly home next Friday the 21st. We leave early and get into Billings close to midnight. I´m sure it will be a very long day, holding a toddler on our laps on three different airplanes with layovers in between. yikes... Well, I better get back to the room and help with Ruben. He is on day 3 of antibiotics and is starting to feel better.