Here's documentation of my first cup of Colombian coffee, or tinto.
WOW-people are nice here! After a good nights rest we had an opportunity to look around the hotel in the daylight. Our beds were really comfortable, and the temperature is great for sleeping. Day one has started out with a flurry of introductions and activity. We awoke, showered, and went down for breakfast. There is some sort of meeting going on with various US agencies, so there are US people here from different agencies. We met a person from Children's Home Society (our agency) this morning, and we met another couple from Bethany. We met Isabel, who is our translator/representative down here. She is really nice. We met her niece, Carmen, who is also working with Isabel. Then we met the hotel director. She showed us around and told us (okay, told Kristin in very fast spanish) all about how things work. I just stood there, smiled and nodded like I understood, hoping that Kristin was comprehending the Spanish. After we were done we turned and walked away, and Kristin said, "I didn't understand any of that". I guess we'll be figuring it out.
There were a few other couples we met. One of them was a couple from Virginia. He is in the US air force, and of Colombian heritage. They had an 8 month old boy. We met a couple from Italy. They had an older boy, maybe 4 years old, that was just the happiest kid. We woke up this morning to him singing and laughing in the shower. It was really cute. As we were heading back up to our room, we met a couple just got a little baby boy one week ago. They just coming back from some appointment. They were from the US, but I didn't catch their names or anything. There was a lot of commotion going on. Now we are back up in our rooms trying to determine what we are going to do today. The weather is really nice 60's and partly sunny. I'm sure we'll have more stories to share later.
Chad
9 comments:
Glad to hear things are going well for you. Rose and I will watch your blog - we are really excited for you. You are in our thoughts and prayers each day.
Hi Chad & Kristin, welcome to Bogota! I hope you are getting settled in just fine. Tomorrow is the big day for Baby Joshua and Baby Isabel. We will have to all meet up soon. Take care, Monica
Hey Chad...Is that coffee any stonger than Kathy's !! Kathy wants to know if you've met Juan Valdez...or maybe you've seen his donkey!
Can't wait until tomorrow to see baby Joshua. Gail
Remember...coffee tastes so much better with lots and lots and lots of creamer. Have a great day Chad & Kristin!
Glad you both made it safe. Enjoy your time down there and we are looking forward to seeing the Theis family photo tomorrow!
Thanks for the morning update! It is fun to hear how things are going. Sounds like you are getting a lot of information! Have a good rest of the day! Take care.
--D&K
Happy to hear you're safe and sound! Countdown is on to meet your son! Can't wait to hear all about it. Sending you so much love, and prayers with a joyful, overflowing heart... bets
hola from waunakee! Cloey and Mikki are loving all the attention that I've been giving them. We took her to the dog park one day with Wally and a bunch of friends. glad that you made it there safe and sound. i'll try to e-mail most of what we do, but our internet is being dumb so yeah anyways....Hope you're having fun!
Cloeey and Laura
Hey thanks for putting all the pictures on! It is fun to get a little better idea about where you living. We enjoyed reading the captions. I would have to say that is an interesting fact about the showers. Hannah really enjoyed seeing Josh's tub, we had to keep going back to that picture.
Wow, not long now until you meet precious Josh. I bet it can't come fast enough. Take care!
--D&K
Post a Comment