Update

Just a quick post to let everyone know how things are going here in Bogota. We continue to explore our host city so we have some stories to share with Francisco when he gets older. The other family from Minnesota invited the folks from Betty's Place to go to a park a few blocks from the shopping mall on Tuesday. The park was pretty amazing - it apparently had once been a polo arena, but had since been repurposed. It was large enough for two soccer fields. There were also some playground structures put up for all the kids to play on. I ended up playing 500 with a few of the boys - felt good to toss around a pig skin.

We were supposed to go see our lawyer and the Defensor of Francisco on Tuesday, but the meeting was cancelled and rescheduled to Thursday. This was a bit of a bummer, since we couldn't get rolling on the court system until this meeting happened.

On Wednesday, Angie and I decided to go out for a little celebratory dinner. Our wonderful caregiver, Marie Elena, took care of Francisco for the evening. We went to a restaurant called Carbon de Palo, which had some wonderful food at reasonable prices. Angie had a shish kebab type dinner made of different sausages. I had a mixed plate of ribs, a steak, and chicken. We had some empanadas and platanos for appetizers. With drinks, it ended up only being about $55 or so.

We stopped by a gift store called Maku on the way there - it had some local trinkets to purchase. We've wanted to get items to pass on to Francisco in the future - little things to help him stay connected to Colombia. This store had just about everything. When we got home, a taxi driver visited us as well and sold us some beaded wrist bracelets his brother had made - they are neat little things with both the Colombian and American flags.

We finally had our meeting with the lawyer on yesterday. It was a short meeting, asking us a few questions about how things were going getting to know Francisco and our feelings about him. To this question, both Angie and I wanted to say that we love him. Unfortunately, we both ended up telling the Defensor that we love him. We all had a good laugh.

We've set up a tour of a coffee plantation for Saturday - more details and pictures to come!