It is Sunday, and our representative Lucia here in Bogota arranged a small van to take the 3 french families and us to the catedral de sal, which translates to cathedral of the salt. This is a underground salt mine about 20 miles outside of Bogota. The two boys, Justin, Ruben, and the girl Camile are in the strollers. The fourth family gets their little boy on Tuesday. Tours alternate in spanish and english. Of course our luck, we got the spanish tour and surrounded by french speaking families. Tracey and my brain were on overload. The salt mine goes into the mountain and depicts Jesus's walk with the cross. There are several cross's carved or silloutes of cross's in the mine. The tour took a little over an hour. At the end each tour group sits in a long carved tunnel with a high ceiling and many chairs lining the tunnel. A light show with music appears on the ceiling of the carved tunnel. Variations of the Colombian flag and pictures of carvings and other figures appear. After the 30 minute walk back out of the mine, our driver drove through the nearby town of Zipaquira. The streets are very narrow and various traditional restaraunts have these large open ovens with large pieces of different types of meat. ie. pork and meat. We had a large table and two large platters of various meat, potato's, and corn bread were on the platter. While we were waiting, a man with a cowboy hat was singing to the patrons. The food was very traditional, and not too bad, except the pork sausage that had rice and pigs blood. It was a little more then I could stomach, but I didn't lose my cookies. It started raining, just as we finished eating, and Ruben and I took a snooze on the way home. All in all, the kids did great today, even us big kids dig ok too. Tomorrow, Andres is going to pick us up for another adventure. I think we will pay him a little extra for a drive through run to the "whopper king" or Mcdonald's".
It is Sunday, and our representative Lucia here in Bogota arranged a small van to take the 3 french families and us to the catedral de sal, which translates to cathedral of the salt. This is a underground salt mine about 20 miles outside of Bogota. The two boys, Justin, Ruben, and the girl Camile are in the strollers. The fourth family gets their little boy on Tuesday. Tours alternate in spanish and english. Of course our luck, we got the spanish tour and surrounded by french speaking families. Tracey and my brain were on overload. The salt mine goes into the mountain and depicts Jesus's walk with the cross. There are several cross's carved or silloutes of cross's in the mine. The tour took a little over an hour. At the end each tour group sits in a long carved tunnel with a high ceiling and many chairs lining the tunnel. A light show with music appears on the ceiling of the carved tunnel. Variations of the Colombian flag and pictures of carvings and other figures appear. After the 30 minute walk back out of the mine, our driver drove through the nearby town of Zipaquira. The streets are very narrow and various traditional restaraunts have these large open ovens with large pieces of different types of meat. ie. pork and meat. We had a large table and two large platters of various meat, potato's, and corn bread were on the platter. While we were waiting, a man with a cowboy hat was singing to the patrons. The food was very traditional, and not too bad, except the pork sausage that had rice and pigs blood. It was a little more then I could stomach, but I didn't lose my cookies. It started raining, just as we finished eating, and Ruben and I took a snooze on the way home. All in all, the kids did great today, even us big kids dig ok too. Tomorrow, Andres is going to pick us up for another adventure. I think we will pay him a little extra for a drive through run to the "whopper king" or Mcdonald's". 
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