Day 39 - Arriving to Fusa

(Sally didn't take any photos this day and I have no way of taking photos, but enjoy some photos that I found on the internet.)

On Saturday, July 18th, after finalizing our packing for the weekend and eating breakfast (of which I ate one grilled ham and cheese sandwhich and one grilled cheese, with fresh orange juice), we all (Juan Davíd, Sally, me, Hilda (JD's mom), and JD's grandpa) packed into Juan David's grandpa's car to head over to Fusa (what everyone calls the city, Fusagasugá - which is completely understandable!). The grandpa and grandma live in Fusa, a much smaller town, due to its perfect climate, which is better fro the grandma. Literally, it's perfect. It's like 75 degrees all of the time. It's hardly ever hot, never humid, and once in a while chilly, but not cold. However, they have an apartment in Bogotá, where the grandpa stays every once in a while. Before leaving, we bought a bag of madarin oranges and shortly before arriving into Fusa, we bought a bag of fresh peaches. The peaches are generally more yellow and taste slightly different, but they're still really good. On the route to Fusa, whenever we passed army soldiers, they would give us a thumbs up, and the grandpa would respond. -- I'm not too sure what that was about.

This statue is in the middle of the city, which represents the city's indigenious backgroun with the sutagoas indians.

Many of the trucks and busses were decorated with blue and white balloons, garlands, and pictures of a patron saint, to celebrate a certain patron saint, whose name I cannot remember. It wasn't for the independence day, which is July 20th, though.

Their house is really cute. It's in a gated community, but the houses are of varying types. LIke they're really not similar, and some are really nice and some aren't so nice. The grandpa and grandma own three stories, but the first story is rented out. The second and third story is where they live. They have a total of 4 bedrooms. Not including the masterbedroom, there are 6 beds and at least one of the beds has a pull out bed, so it can certainly accomodate a lot of people. The top floor has different open areas for eating and just looking out at the surrounding communtiy, which is absolutely lovely with the perfect climate.

Shortly after we got to the house, they made Sally and I a chicken salad type thing and gave us the option of lulo or mora juice. We chose lulo cause we both hadn't had it too much (well, Sally had never tried it). Lulo is basically a less acidic passion fruit. It's so nice to have fresh fruit juice again! Then the rest of the family left us to go to lunch. We were a little confused at what was happening. But we think it was due to the fact that we wouldn't fit in the car and that we weren't super hungry so there was no point in us having a full lunch, since lunch is the biggest meal of the day. However, we took the opportunity to take a nap. When we woke up, we found that everyone else had returned and decided to do the same. Shortly afterwards, Juan Davíd took Sally and I to the downtown. In the centro, there were lots of little children with balloons, couples and families sitting on the steps, a cathedral, some people walking in stilts, and lots of pigeons. We hung out in the centro, just watching all that was going on. There was a little boy who was about 1 years old who had a Minions balloon; he was absolutely adorable. There was also a shetland pony that children could ride, for a fee of course.

There was a couple getting married inside the church. Two SUVs arrove, one with a giant sparkly hat and bowtie, the other with a crown, veil, and lips. It was actually really cute and not trashy looking, haha. We walked around the city a bit. I noticed little plant things growing all over the telephone lines. After noticing what I recognized from Hawaii as being Pele's hair, I think I've figured it out that those are the little plant type tings that are growing on the plant lines. I figured out that "Pele's Hair" is called Spanish moss, which Hilda told me is called musgo.

At night, they turn all the water off cause apparently the pressure builds up during the night and can burst through. When only Sally and I were in the house, we were certainly confused cause we didn't realize that! haha