Weekend Wrap Up, A Day Late

Yeah, I know it is Tuesday and this is my weekend wrap-up, but that's just life these days....a day late for me.

I enjoy doing puzzles and I purchased my first one in Bogota, which I completed Friday night (with a little help from Brook) while Avery took Isabella to her first high school youth group event in Bogota.

Saturday, we went to this location in a suburb of Bogota, called Chia for Brook's first middle school youth group event in Bogota.  We walked 15 minutes to the bus stop, rode 30 minutes on a bus, then 30 minutes in a taxi to get there.  Doing one activity here is exhausting because of the time it takes, but it was nice to meet new people and spend the afternoon speaking English in a pretty setting.

Brook (3rd from right in pink shirt) with the other middle school kids.

Both Isabella and Brook's youth groups are associated with United Church Bogota, the English speaking church here. 

After church Sunday, we had lunch at the mall, which is where Brook had a birthday party to attend.  Avery and Isabella came back home to relax and I stayed with Brook.  She did great at this rock climbing wall.

There were activities and it was fun to see Brook play.

This is Brook with her new friend.  Her friend has lived in Bogota most of her life, but is a new student in the class as well.

The entire party was in Spanish, so Brook was following along at some times, just watching what the others did.  Her friend did translate a few times for her.

It is hard to see in this picture but the girl in the overalls (to the right with long dark hair) was the birthday girl.  There was karaoke to spanish music and Brook was just standing in the background.  Sofi, grabbed Brook and started dancing with her.  In the picture, Sofi has her arms on Brook and was sweet to include her.

We were all tired by the end of all of that and still tired Monday morning.  Today is open house day at the school for Brook and Thursday is open house day for Isabella, which means we will be going to meet the teachers and maybe learn a little more about their classes. We are also ordering school pictures today as well.  So many new things....