Christmas in Bogota

Bogota decorations

My goal is to get back up to date. Surely I can do that. I am only four months behind! We are now on our spring break and with a little extra time, I will try to get up a few posts. Just a word of warning - they may be a little brief. Hope you enjoy!

A building near our house

Are they passing the snowballs up or down?

Even the churches decorate

Christmas in Colombia may compete with the USA in terms of the decorations and all out love of the holiday. Following Halloween there are no real holidays (no Thanksgiving in Clombia :( ) So decorations start in early November. Seasonal shops open up and other stores turn their inventory over to Christmas. These are a few pictures we took with our phones. We weren't really prepared for the extravagance, coming from Japan. Anyway, after school we headed to the USA for a quiet and relaxing Christmas. The girls and their husbands came for a long weekend and it was fun to touch base with many of our (and their) North Carolina friends. So it stayed quiet until the new year - but that is a tale for the next post.

So do many buildings