A vender supply and garbage pickup wagon. I think they must get paid for recycling card board because ever one that doesn't have a full load takes out cardboard. The horse drawn carts particularly pick up cardboard and wooden crates from the streets. I can tell you stuff like that doesn't stay too long. Garbage is collected everyday but we noticed today that some of the garbage hadn't been picked up
Below and above are uniformed police. These are the ones that we call the boy scouts. They are so young. They look like about explorer age 16-18. However, it is nice to have them on the blocks. They are on the corners and sometimes direct traffic (that is rare. only when things get really messy). They are also stationed in the middle of the block. I hope to do a blog about security one of these times. It is relatively easy to take pictures of these guys but the ones that come out at night to replace them all have submachine guns or automatic rifles and it is harder to get pictures of them. You don't just go up to a guy with a submachine gun and say "Can I take your picture" At least I don't. The girl with the guy below is one of the Ciclovia workers. They have them on bikes as well and they help handle interesections where bikes have to stop to let cars go by and where cars have to give the bikes the right of way until they are told they can go on.
These are the cyclovia bike workers. I didn't get a good shot because thy were moving.
Below are some pictures of the Mall. A Mall is a mall and this is a huge very modern one. There were probably 10-12 major resturants though out the mall and then in addition there was a huge food court. I took a picture of the featured fare in the food court. In addition there was a 12 plex movie theater and a large bowling alley. There was also a bingo cacino and you can see some pictures below of the kids amusement park area with a merry go round and other rides. Through out the mall there were vidio game areas and computer cafes. All and all quite impressive. One of the other blogs I want to do is about the bags of Bogota. Everyone carries a bag of some kind. Brief cases are out to lunch because it is hard to get on a bus with a brief case but bags are every where in every shape. Darwin and I bought new bags today. I have one that I have been using that is a traditional Colombian bag. In the next blog I will show you the bags of Bogota including ours.