Adios Colombia

Tuesday June 22nd was our last night in Bogota, Colombia. After being cold for the last 3 days I was finally informed that I could take a HOT shower across the street at the other hostel! They were totally holding out on me! The shower was amazing and I was out just in time to meet our new neighbors of our "mini apartment, " Jo and Andy, who had just arrived from England. They wanted to go out and get food so Wesley took us all out for pizza in an area he had discovered earlier that day. It was a busy square where the local hippies and Rastafarian people hang out. They were juggling, selling jewelry and just hanging out. We spent a little time there, ate our pizza, I called my Mom and then went to a bar that looked like a really cool place with bean bags and private rooms to just chill and relax. Little did we know that we were in a drug bar and everyone around us was doing coke..... oops! We had a beer there, people watched and then headed home. We decided to watch the movie, "Snakes on the Plane" because it happened to be on T.V. Again, I was freezing so I got my blanket off my bed and then decided I again would resort to doing push-ups and sit-ups to warm myself up. As I was doing this (and watching this crazy movie about snakes) I suddenly saw a rather large black shadow moving on my blanket! I picked it up with my mitten, yes I was wearing mittens because I was that cold, and threw it across the room. I ran to turn on the lights, as we were watching the movie in the pitch dark, and there was a 4 inch slug laying on the ground!! It was so gross! So not only have I been sharing a bed and blanket with Laura the last couple nights, we have also been sharing it with a huge ugly SLUG!!.... We finished watching the movie and of course I was not going to sleep with that blanket the rest of the night because it had slug slime all over it, so Wesley heated up some water, put it in empty water bottles and told me to sleep with them. So.... that night I slept with a sheet and a water bottle under my shirt; it was a brilliant idea and worked very well!

The next morning we woke up, packed up all our things and watched the U.S soccer game, as well as parts of the England/Slovenia game. We said goodbye to all of our friends we met in Colombia and got in a cab to head to the airport! We were officially off to Ecuador. Adios Bogota!