When we go to Duitama, we stay in our old 500 year old hotel, but on this night we were delighted to have a group come in to the hotel for a midevil event. Everyone arrived in period costumes. They were very entertaining.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
A midevil night to remember.
The evening was full of a lot of entertainment. Everyone was in costume. We saw people on stilts, jugglers, and people playing fluts.
A working coal mine.
We really enjoy going to Duitama now because of the 500 year old hotel that we have found. When we are there, we like to go out for walks in the countryside. We found this old mine that is being mined. We had no desire to go in, but it was closed for the day anyway. I don't think OSHA is working here.
Wooden rails.
The coal is brought up out of the mine in a little cart and when it gets to the end, the man pushes the cart around by hand until the rails line up with the rails in the background. He then pushed the cart over to the end and tips it our into the container below.
Coal waiting to be picked up.
The coal is dumped in this container and sits there until the dump truck comes to pick it up. The driver pulls out about three of the wooden slats in the front part of the container and then pushes the coal to the opening to the truck below.
Passing through a pay booth.
This is not an every day occurrence at our pay boothes, but on this day, we had these men greetings us as we drove through the pay booth. They are in the uniforms of the revolution way back in the Eighteenth century. I was a little late in getting the photo.
Our two Hermanas from Chile.
Our two Chilean hermanas from Chile, came over one afternoon and taught me how to make Chilean empanadas, sopaipillas, and a yummy postre. We worked, laughed, and remembered Chile. We loved our three years that we lived in Chile.
Busy day in the kitchen.
Hermana Robles-Via was a great teacher. She made sopaipillas and this postre. I can't remember what it is called. The sopaipillas were very common in Chile.
Looks professional.
Hermana Faundez made the dough and taught me how to make our pastry here as well as the dough for the empanadas.
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