Pre-Christmas Celebrations

So here in Cali December is like Summer vacation. School is out for a month, and there are tons of events leading up to and during Christmas. One of the big things here now is the festival of lights. There are lighted decorations up all over the city, but primarily along the river. These are no ordinary christmas lights, they are fairly intricate and show scenes typical to this city. We walked about checking it all out on 2 separate nights, as did the entire rest of the city - it was so crowded! Anyways, here are some photos of the highlights:





Here is me and Luc Estella, under some of the lights, and a little girl came up to see aureliano just as clayt snapped the picture.

He is Clayton hamming it up with one of the light figures.







These last 2 pictures are from the teacher's picnic the Colombo had this past weekend. As you can see, it was a good time!