Another Colombian holiday....

So once again we had another holiday here in Colombia.  This one was for the independence of Cartagena which happened on the 11th November 1811.

Since we are leaving Colombia soon we decided to head into town to see the Botero Museum which Amanda has not yet visited. Audra and Gary also joined us since they had also not visited the museum.  

The Museum is not just Botero exhibit it has other works of art and a section on the history of money in Colombia, best of all it is free. 

Since my photos of the art work are not so great here is the link to the google art project so you can see much more of the works I failed to take pictures of.  

Gearing up for Christmas

Botero work

Sculptures

Fat horse

More Botero

Skeleton Guitar my favourite

Monocle 

Colombian coins

More coins

Happy before lunch

For the bathroom

Guitar

Not sure buying a Guitar was the best idea for a two year old., my ears are already hurting, see video below.  If you can't see it I think it is probably because you are using an apple product... or on a mobile device, sorry guys :(

Eating at Andrés Carne de Res in Chia

So we finally managed to make it to this restaurant to have a meal.  Thanks to Audra and Gary for taking us there, definitely some of the best food we have had while in Colombia.

Sculpture

Sculptures

Not a phone booth

Cow Zebra - Cowbra? or Zebow?

Andrés in Chia is a unique restaurant other words that could be used to describe it would be flamboyant, big, colourful, busy.  The restaurant will seat 3500 people, fortunately for us it was not that a busy while we were there.  Outside the restaurant there are a series of sculptures, a theme that continues inside. Once inside and after Fiona and I had our wrist bands so she didn't get lost we were taken to our table.  Menus are currently in a magazine style with over 30 pages of food and drinks options, this can make choosing something a challenge.  Lucky for me Amanda picked what we were going to have and it was fantastic.

Gary and Audra

Juice

Table Name

Section of the Restaurant

Jesus

By the time we had finished eating it was starting to get dark which meant all the lights outside the restaurant were coming on, changing the dynamics of the restaurant again.

Entrance

Zebra

A cow