feliz cumpleaños Santa Fe..

today, in a nutshell.

we go on a tour at "the most important theater in Colombia" and get free tickets to an opera. we're gonna go change clothes and come back until we run into a plaza run amok, full of Santa Fe fans with flags, fireworks, todo eso. Santa Fe is one of the two really big soccer teams in Bogotá and it turns out that it is the team's birthday. so people are drinking wine and aguardiente out of juice boxes, chanting and waving the biggest flags I have ever seen. we call Coco's friend who is a diehard Santa Fe fan and she comes down. and the fans are starting to trek up this hill that is ultimately a mountain. so this is all going down here because the Santa Fe team was going up to Montserrat, which is a church at the top of this mountain, attainable only by teleferico (a cable car).

SO. we get in line. and we are right behind the team. and we get into the cable car... with the team. so this team has a lot of the national team's players.. not to mention half of the city is absolutely crazy over them. and to be honest I didn't even realize it was them at first because everybody was wearing jerseys and red and what not. I just thought they were some hardcore fans with matching outfits... because everybody was playing it cool around them. until all of a sudden I am taking a picture with a player who was the last Colombian to score a goal in a world cup game.

so we get out of the teleferico and there is this sort of red carpet shit set up. so we exit, take a picture with the goalie for the Colombian national team and then we go through this passageway, made by a rope on either side, to keep the fans from the team. and I'm like amongst them and people are going insane and taking pictures and shit. it was insane. and this whole thing is leading to a church. which is hilarious. church plus soccer equals Latin America basically. and inside the church people are going crazy standing on the pews and shit. nuts. so anyway, these are pictures from the theater that we did up not returning to, and the birthday rally in the plaza. I didn't have my camera which was heart wrenching but we had Coco's. and one picture from our road trip yesterday, of a church in Chinquinquira.