Celebration Dinner.

Last night we celebrated the completion of our project. I'll be here for another week to ensure that everything cleans up nicely.

We went to an interesting place called Andres Carnederes (http://www.andrescarnederes.com). It is a Colombian steakhouse and was a significant amount of fun. We started off eating a ton of appetizers and beer.

This place had 5 floors, with live jazz and people in festive costumes would come around and throw confetti on your tables and play saxophone accompanied by cymbals. It was a fun place.

In North America there seem to be a large number of girls who don't like beer. South America is no exception, but they have a trick. If you add 3 parts beer to 1 part club soda, then the bitterness is removed from the beer and it becomes a girly drink. I tried it and it isn't too bad.

I had a strip-loin steak and it was a little charred on the outside as all meat seems to be in Colombia. After many many beers and glasses of wine, it was midnight and we had just about had enough. Our project manager paid for the night and then it was time for bed.

Plaza de Bolivar

I went for a walk today down Caprerra 7 and found Plaza de Bolivar. It is a massive plaza with a ton of pigeons, Bogota Cathedral, the national parliament building, city hall, and the supreme court. It was pretty cool. Here are some photos.
This one is the mayor's houseThis is the parliament building.

Here is the Catherdal.This one is the Supreme court building. Cool eh?

Sorry this post wasn't that exciting, I'll find something better for the next one.

The wallet

So far, we've been quite lucky in Colombia. I was under the impression that this was a dangerous place run by drug cartels and you wouldn't be able to walk around at night. However, in the 4 weeks that I've been here, I haven't had a moment when I didn't feel safe. People here are really friendly.

However, (there is always a however) one of the guys finally met up with fate. As he was getting out of the taxi on his way home from the bar on Saturday night, he noticed that his wallet was missing from his front pocket and that the pocket was partially turned inside out. It had been stolen!

They called the police and the taxi driver went back to that bar. The taxi driver pointed to the police, a group of ruffians who had been standing outside of the bar all night. The police patted them down and guess what they found? The wallet! The taxi driver, returned the wallet to the hotel and it was recovered. We figured that it was a 1:1,000,000 chance that the wallet was going to be recovered and it looks like we beat the odds!

Anyways, I am going to continue carrying only one credit card and an expired driver's license as long as I am here just in case the same thing happens to me.