First Day

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Hola,

Sam and I arrived in Bogota yestarday at 4:30 after an adventurous cab ride we got to the hostel at 6:00. We had nothing else we wanted to do but reclaim the sleep we had missed during the last however many hours in planes and airports. We woke up to find a colorfull little hostel filled with at least one englishman and two americans. The building looks incredibley old with logs on the ceiling and cracks in the concrete walls. We have managed to get breakfast, lunch and two bottles of water so far with very little spanish. I am not too worried about learning 'dos' cervesas por favor' I have that practiced for this evening. We visited the Museum de Oro (gold museum), and tomorrow we are going to try and make it to the cable car which climbs one of the steep green mountains we can see from downtown.

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