It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…

Daniela

We are in Popoyan, Colombia, which is another beautiful city in this wonderful country.  It has a historic centre which is filled with colonial architecture, most of which has been painstakingly restored following several earthquakes.

PB290292   The temperature is quite nice.  As you enter a city in Colombia, there is always a sign which gives you information about the city.  It tells you the population, the elevation and the average temperature.  When we were near the Caribbean, the average temperatures were about 30 degrees!  We are now at an average temperature of 19 degrees.  Yippee!

We went for a walk around town this afternoon, to explore our new surroundings and we saw this.

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Obviously Christmas is coming, so we should expect to see Christmas decorations and advertisements, but it still hard to take.  Here are some more examples

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PB290306 I am not sure what the Smurfs have to do with Christmas, except that these Smurfs are wearing red hats, not white (for all you non Smurf experts, only Grandpa Smurf used to wear a red hat, all the others wore white!!)

I don’t know, somehow I don’t get the same feeling when the backdrop for the decorations is a green, green park!  I know that Christmas in Calgary is not always white, but at least it is not usually tropical green!!  We will be in Lima, Peru for Christmas, staying with our friend Giulliana’s family.   I am told I will be served hot chocolate even though it is summer there!  Can’t wait!

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3 Responses to “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…”

  • Marina Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 8:12 am

    Smurfs with red hats????too cool!!!!

  • Chris Says:
    December 1st, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    Danielly, I heard the Christmas shoe song on the drive home and I thought of you. I didn’t cry but it is a sad song.

    miss you lots
    chrissy

  • Christine Says:
    December 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am

    When we lived in Columbia we went to a salt mine place. I think it was also a cathedral, it was really cool. Are you guys gonna be in Bogota? If you are 2 places you should go are crepes and waffles, and the other is charlies. There was one other that i can’t remember, but oh well.And by some park there are a bunch of cow statues.

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