Usaquen Sunday Market

On Sunday we walked to a different part of Bogota about a half hour walk from our hotel for Mass and a street market. We arrived a little before time for Mass and walked around for a bit. When we got to the Church it was already extremely crowded, we barely found seats. Mass was beautiful but completely in Spanish so I only understood a little bit, but it was very beautiful. The Church was absolutely gorgeous! So amazing! Here are a few pictures of the church:

From the outside of Santa Barbara

The Beautiful inside of Santa Barbara

The alter area reminded us of the California missions

The church was almost bare everywhere except the alter

Santa Barbara church was built in 1665

After mass we went and walked around the street market, it was pretty cool. There were so many vendors selling so many beautiful things. It was hard not to buy everything! We wandered around the market and then through a little more of that area of the city and saw a few cool buildings. 
I thought this was the coolest thing ever! It was a restaurant with Tomato plants growing in the windows. 

SO AWESOME!

This was just a really pretty hotel that caught my mum's eye, we liked how you could see the stairs in the windows.

Hotel Hillhouse

Cool Irish pub

Look at the statue on top of the restaurant!

We also saw this statue that really, really freaked me out. We were just looking at it and mum was like "wow that is a really lifelike statue!" and I kinda poked it and said "yeah that's cause they used real clothes" and then.....................IT MOVED! Ok, I admit I screamed a little (others would say a lot but don't believe them). Dad put some money in it's container and it started moving, chopping wood, and then the really creepy part... It started winking and batting it's eyelashes at me. It was a rather new experience to me to have a statue flirting with me...kinda just a little weird....well maybe a lot weird... here are a couple of pictures of it.

Well it was a very fun and exiting day, by the time we started the long walk home we all were tired and our feet hurt. I was beginning to get a headache and the pollution was really bugging me, but I was just kind of ignoring it cause I must just be hungry or something. Well we got home but then after dinner we watched a movie and the whole time I was progressively getting worse, by bed time I had a horrid headache and the worst sore throat. I woke up in the middle of the night to get some water, but there wasn't any. The water wouldn't turn on. I tried both sinks in our bathroom and the one in our kitchenette but there just wasn't any water. I was starting to think maybe I was just dreaming, I could imagine that I would dream something like that but I pinched myself and sure enough I was awake. My parents woke up and were just as weirded out about there not being water as I was but they just got me a water bottle and we went back to bed. I didn't sleep much more that night and woke up feeling just as terrible. We found out that the water pipe had broken in the middle of the night and the whole hotel didn't have any water. It's after 10am now and we still don't have water. We're all just drinking bottled water and praying that the water will be fixed soon. Wait...wait....ALLELUIA! the water is back on! 

I don't know what the family is doing today but I know I don't plan to leave the hotel. Just stay here and rest. I just heard that one of the other people in the hotel had the same thing I have for a couple of weeks. I better not be sick for that long. One day is long enough. I'm drowning myself in vitamins and trying to rest. The kids are all playing with Nerf guns and mostly leaving me alone so I hopefully will have some time to sleep. 

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