In terms of fun and socially enriching experiences, we went into the city center and toured Plaza Botero. The Plaza sports many, many sculptures by Francisco Botero. Botero is a Colombian artist who creates figures of accentuated fatness, for lack of a better term.
A moment ago the boys were trying to pick "la nariz de la cara" - aka face's nose. Below is a bit of an overview of the plaza. This doesn't do it justice, but one can see the sculptures are quite prolific and the plaza attracts a healthy crowd.
To those who may be timid, there were plentiful police and security wandering the area. One's biggest worry was the hat vendors, and they were much less aggressive than most vendors I've encountered while travelling.
One of the biggest challenges was keeping Kristen and Reece off their cellphones.
Inside the museum were wonderful displays. The building itself is beautiful. I'd give you the history, but to be honest there are too many cool things about this city to dive in to every detail. The building has some beautiful frescoes. Botero's paintings are well represented as well.
Below we see the interactive exhibit. Shown are the artist's son, then the author's wife and author's son. Curses be to blogger for the trouble in making the layout not suck.
After we were all wore out by the museum we went to get some
In terms of what a good meal costs??? It depends on the area, time of day, and etc., etc., etc.
In this case we ordered 3 "menu del dia" (menu of the day) for 10,000 pesos each. That works out to about $6 each portion for rice, potatoes and yams, and more pork than a reasonable person can eat. The huge pitcher of fresh lemonade was an additional 17,000 pesos (~$8.50 US).
All in all, a great day.
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