More Party & Kite Flying

We recently went to a town called Tabio, Colombia with our friends to celebrate their daughter's 1st birthday.  Our friend's parents live in Tabio, so we went to their home, which is in the "country".  It is about 45 minutes from Bogota, so it was nice to get out of the city for a little while.   As I mentioned in an earlier post, August is the official kite flying month in Bogota.  We spent some time flying kites before the celebration & food.

This is a kite left here that we are using because our kite from the USA just wasn't working here.  Isabella was flying the kite here.

Brook watching

She took a picture of me watching too!

Our kite, the owl 

Brook flying the kite

There was a great outdoor space with this pretty awesome fireplace.  This huge pot on the fire had beans in it.  My friend was so thoughtful to have a frozen pizza for the girls to eat & chicken for me.  Everyone else had beans with some sort of pork on it.  Next to the soup, we had a plate of rice, avocado, & an arepa, which is very common to serve with soup here.  I did eat my plate of food, but not the bean soup.  

Our family with the birthday girl.  It was a Dora the Explorer party :)

We sat by the fire to keep warm after lunch.

And this could be one of my favorite family photos we've had since we have been here.  This was our backdrop for the day.