Yesterday, we spent most of the day on the plane. We went from Minneapolis to Miami and then to Bogota. The plane above is the international leg (Miami to Bogota). There were free movies to watch (I watched Star Trek Into Darkness.) and the food (below) was pretty amazing. Again included. Very nice.
The dessert was very good! International flight was a very nice thing! After we arrived at Bogota, we went through Immigracion.
One of the most obvious things we noticed was that Ingles was not the primary language anymore. Note that English is below Spanish on the signs! It was very humbling. Worldview = Expanding!! We went downstairs to get to our Domestic flight (Coneccion). We had to stumble through a smatter of espanol to get directions to the flight.
The flight from Bogota to Cali was a good flight. I thought I would get to blog a bit and read. But instead I got to talk with Estella. She was traveling with her nephew to Cali and then to smaller city. The funny thing is, I learned all about this without her knowing more than five words in espanol! In fact, from Miami to Bogota and then to Cali, there were not that many people that I encountered that knew english. Estella (means star) and her nephew, Camilo, and I had a good talk and I was so humbled on how little I knew in espanol and how lost I was in the conversation. She was patient with me and they laughed at me a few times. This is her below.
We arrived uneventful! God walked us through. Below is a photo of Cali from the airplane. It is a city of 2.7 million people. Muy largo!
The plane was full (as you can see below). We got off the plane in Cali and claimed our luggage.
Since Cali was a smaller airport it was easier to navigate. And, all of our luggage arrived at the same place and at the same time!
We meet up with Vince, who picked us up from the airport and we went back to his house. Lastly, for this night, we took this picture below (add me) as we loaded into the van and headed to their house. We were exhausted!
On the way we had a light snack that Alyson had prepared for us. It was refreshing to have some fruit!! I think travel food makes you appreciate the simple things!
These days are long and full with lots of pics! I will do my best to keep them short, but make sure you go and look at the previous posts to make sure you haven't missed one!!
Buenos noches!
