Friday, February 6, 2009

Christmas in Cartagena

We spent the first two weeks in December in Cartagena Columbia - that is South America....

It was weird to be in such a HOT climate in December - and to see Christmas decorations everywhere. I loved seeing Santa's climbing over balconies - instead of sticking out of chimneys.


They don't have large Christmas trees in Columbia - so they make big trees out of lights!


Fireworks are all part of the Christmas celebration - these went off right over our head!


All around the old town of Cartagena - they put up these huge blow up figures of historic people and events. The pirate ship is symbolic of the attacks that used to come around the walled city. It was Eli's favorite.



One of our favorite Columbian Christmas sites. We were there for the first lighting of this plaza - it was really beautiful.

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