MUNGO EATS Latin America

If Cartagena is anything, it is a little boy’s fantasy.  Where else can you stand on city walls, explore a fortress, complete with secret tunnels, see pirate ships, view implements of torture, etc. ?

Sean is having a great time in this town.  Yesterday we walked into the old walled city again.  At the harbour were two “pirate ships”.  These were replicas which I believe you can now buy a ticket for to take tours of the harbours.  They were complete with small cannons and a skull and crossbones flag. 

Okay, the next exciting thing may not be in Sean’s dreams, but it was fun all the  same.  What is a holiday without a good “feeding of the pigeons” session?  The kids had a great time with this.  They were extremely cheap with the corn kernels and managed to stretch this feeding time out to almost 1/2 an hour.  Not bad for 25 cents!

We also visited the Museum of the Inquisition, which held a display of torture devices, all of which delighted Sean immensely!  (He is a morbid little boy!)

This is not part of Sean’s dreams either, but it did get Kevin going…barrels of rum!!  Really!!

Today we visited the old fortress, Castillo de San Felipe de Baranjas.  It was pretty cool (well actually, it was stinking hot, but it was neat to see).  There were turrets,

cannons,

and secret tunnels.

The tunnels were sparsely lit with lights, but we followed one tunnel down into complete darkness.  Every once in a while, we would snap a picture, so we could get an idea of where the tunnel was going, and the rest of the time, we tried to use the light from the LCD screen on the back of the camera to dimly light the way.  Eventually we got to a point where the tunnel was starting to fill with water though, and decided to abandon the effort.

Very, very spooky!!!!! 

Definitely a place for little boys!!

I had some fun at an old fortress today!!!!  The bad part was the heat.  The good part is that I got a mini cannon at the top!!!!!  Oh,, and I got to go spelunking in some tunnels.  With mom, dad and Sara of course. The first ones were ok but the last one was AWESOME!!!!  For one reason it started in a fork!!  The 2 paths met up.  Lucky for us they did!  Sara and dad went one way, mom and I the other.  The soldiers would live in little dents in the wall of a tunnel.  This couldn’t be comfy.  The dents were a bit smaller in length than a single-sized bed and just as wide.  The tunnel roofs were too small for mom and dad to fit standing up, so they looked like hunchbacks when we finally got out.  There was a HUGE hill descending down into the darkness.   Yes, I think this

was happening for an hour or half an hour before Sara said the hill stopped.

After the hill the electric lights did not work.  I don’t even think there were any!  What you see here is a picture so we could see what was ahead of us.