We started the day by making brownies. I thought it would be something fun to do, and they could bake while we got ready to go. Hah! Esteban had a great time mixing them up. When we turned on the oven to heat, we blew out the main breaker for the apartment. I had to go downstairs and tell the doorman (in Spanish, of course) that we didn't have any power. He was kind enough - and insightful enough - to go throw the main breaker for us. Needless to say, the oven didn't get hot! So, Grandma to the rescue! Grandma cooked the brownies in a frying pan like little pancakes, sort of. They actually turned out really yummy!
The friends who invited us to their club are actually cousins of a friend of my uncle in Australia. Esteban and I went to their club when I was here with him in 2008. They picked us up at 10am and we drove west for a little over an hour, to just outside the Bogota city limits. We went first to join extended family members who were already there, watching some of the children and adults of the family in a tennis tournament. They seem to be very accomplished tennis players - they almost all placed, and one young woman played for the women's championship of the tournament. The club was having a Halloween party for children, and so Esteban and I we
nt off to find out how to join that. It turned out that the thing he was most excited about was the bouncy house - so he bounced. Esteban and Isabella both went in costume - Esteban as a Colombian soccer player and Isabella as a princesa de calabaza (pumpkin princess, as Esteban dubbed her). The day was lovely, with decent weather, wonderful hosts, and good food. I was delighted to find that my Spanish IS actually better than it was 2 years ago when I couldn't hold a conversation with these nice people to save my life! They invited us to think of them as our extended Colombian family. So nice!We came home exhausted, but feeling very welcomed.
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