Jon goes to school

Jon enjoyed going to school last week. On Monday we just visited and met all of his teachers , but the rest of the week he went in the afternoons and made muchos amigos.This is Jon with the school principal and another staff member who was a translator for him often.
Here he is with his resource room teacher JJ. Her mom was one of Maria's teachers when she first came home with us from Romania.
This is Ms. Maat his class room teacher.

Jon Felipe's new casa

This is a picture of Luke and Jon and Cheryl and Stellita waiting for our flight in Bogotá.Jon Felipe at home not so sure he is going to like snow.
With a little coaxing from his brothers and sister and neighborhood friends he decides that snow can be fun as long as it is other people getting hit with snow balls.
Jon went and visited his new school on Monday and on Tuesday he went for about an hour and a half in the afternoon. He declared his new school bueno and went back again today for another afternoon. This morning he slept in (although not as long as Colin) so when he woke up everybody was gone at school. He was very upset to be the only one home besides dad. We had to call mom on the phone to reassure him that she hadn't left for good. I think we will continue to do half days of school this week and then start him full time after break. We are still waiting to get an appointment with the neurologist. Pray that they have and opening soon.
the VanTols

Home

The boys arrived safely at O'Hare Airport tonight and now we are back home in Holland. Dwight and Luke are looking forward to sleeping in their own beds. Jon Felipe, of course, has another bed to get used to. We are so glad to have them all home. Now we can begin the work of becoming a family.

Coming Home

Dwight and the boys should be flying in to O'Hare Airport on Sunday night. They have a layover in Miami and will do customs and immigration there, so this will be a domestic flight.

It is United Airlines flight 7555. Right now, the flight has been delayed and they are scheduled to arrive at Terminal 1, Concourse C, Gate C2 at 6:35 p.m.

Thank you to Gary Kuyper for helping us work out the details and to everyone for praying for a solution to the problem.

glitches

I had booked tickets for Dwight and the boys on a flight out on Sunday morning. I just found out that that flight got canceled. So now we are back to finding a way for them to come home as soon as possible. Please pray that we find a good solution to this problem.

Visa is done

Hello there.
The US embassy called me this morning after my delicous breakfast and two great cups of coffee and told me that I needed to come pick up my visa before 11 because they were having an "event" this afternoon and would be closed. From what I've heard the embassy has 'events' often and they can be anything from a staff Christmas party to a reception for an imprortant dignatary. We couln't arrange a taxi ride on that short of notice with one of the regular drivers so Katya the Hotels owner drove us there. She did a great job but had to keep calling on her cell for directions.
That is done and now all I have to do is go back to Ayudame, the orphange, to pick up their offical release of custody and say goodbye to the staff there and tour their gift shop. We are planning on flying out Sunday morning and should be landing at O'Hare around 6 pm. That will end this leg of our adoption. But of course we will continue on at home.
Love Dwight and the boys

more late night thoughts

Hi everyone,
I'm sorry there are no more pictures but the family I borrowed the usb cable from has gone home. I will be home soon and will post pictures then.
In the front parlor of the Hotel Paris there is a big stack of photo albums with letters and pictures written to Katya from families who have spent a stretch of their adoption journeys here. Adoptions start long before you travel to recieve your child and they continue for the rest of your life. The albums go back at least 15 years as far as I can tell there may be older entries in one I didn't open. They contain thank you letters from new parents as well as updates from families who adopted years before. Looking at them led me to remember all the families that have passed through Hotel Paris in the almost five weeks I have been living here. There have been 7 families from the US, from Florida, Tennisse, Arizona, and Michigan. Four families each from Finnland and France, two from Italy, one from Puerto Rico one from Denmark and one from the Netherlands. Somehow using a little Spanish and English and whatever other languages we had in common plus gestures we have been able to communicate with each other. Debrah another mom here said that two years ago when she adopted her first child the hotel was full of infants, but this time it has been populated mostly by families adopting older children and sibling groups. Because of this you hear lots of cries of Mama or Poppi around the place. One of those voices, invariably the loudest belongs to my own new son, Jon Felipe. Usually he is just checking to make sure I'm still here, close, where he can find me. He doesn't ever stray too far away, and the day I had to leave him here at the residencia, while I went to the court and other official offices he was worried and sat by the front door waiting for me to return.
All these children, hundreds of them recorded in Katya's albums, with brand new parents. People who often don't even speak their language. You should hear Jon and I when he is trying to get some point across to me and I just can't understand him, it's like a "who's on first" routine. He thinks if he just says it loud enough and long enough I will understand. How do we all manage to become family. Why are these children, many who have experienced much pain in their lives already, willing to entrust thier lives, their futures, their hearts to a stranger like me. To stay by my side and listen to me stumble through a story book in my bad spanish. To not run and hide when discipline is enforced but instead to give a hug and say te cearre, I love you. I promised in family court that I would support and care for this child to the best of my ability, but why should he take me at my word.
A few days ago Kathy and I were IMing about Christmas presents. Getting ready for the holidays is a little more difficult when one of you is on a different continent, but we were trying to coordinate our efforts. We were making a gift shopping list and I jokingly said we'll just give Jon Felipe an new family for Christmas. We really couldn't top that with anything from Toys R Us anyway. But in Bethlehem, two thoudand and seven years ago, a new family was the first gift given on Christmas. God's adoption journey begins of course at the Fall when instead of abandoning His Creation he fashioned a salvaton plan and by becoming human that first Christmas He was able to give up everthing for us and by doing so opened the door for us to become His children forever. All we have to do is put our complete trust and faith in Him. Just like the kids here at Hotel Paris are doing with thier new families.
Love from Bogota, but coming home soon, Dwight and the boys.

Visa approval, check

Hello,
We just got back from the US emmbasy. Our application for a visa for Jon was approved and we can pick it up tomorrow afternoon. That means I will be flying home on Sunday if there is room on that flight, let's hope so. There are three families leaving today for homes in Europe so they had a big fiesta last night to celebrate, That is if you can call cheesey puffs and Doritos and ice cream a fiesta, there was lots to drink also if one was so inclined.
We will be glad to be home, esp Luke who missses going to school and doing lots of homework. But we will also miss the friends we have made in Bogota and the weather here which is almost always nice except when it is raining.
Love Dwight and the boys

Passport, check. Dr. report, check.

Hello there,
Today we went to get the passport in the morning. It took us an hour to get there because the traffic was very bad. getting a passport in Bogota is very effiecient, if your papers are in order. You get your photos taken. Grab a number from the info lady, pay at the cachier, wait your turn, hand over your papers, answer a few questions and put a finger print in the appropriate boxes. check to make sure it is all correct. Then they print and laminate it right there and your done. Takes about an hour and a half or so. Getting a passport with Jon Felipe was a little more difficult because he did not want to give his photos up. It took a bit of convinceing before he relinquished them to the man behind the desk. having possesions of his own is still a new concept to him and although he usually shares well when asked sometimes you never know how he will react. After lunch we went to see the Dr. who did his residence at St. Jude's Children's Hospital so he knew about Michigan. He prefers the weather here in Bogota. That went well so now we have everything we need to get our visa which we will apply for tomorrow and pick up on Friday the Lord willing. Apperently the US embassy here can be hard to deal with and has an unpredictable schedule, they can close without any warning at any time from what I hear. So everyone pray and e-mail your congress person. Chyerl Kyper is supposed to fly in to Bogota from Ibugue this afternoon and take he daughter to the Dr. tonight and then we can go to the Embassy together tomorrow. Hopefully she is haveing a good trip in.
Love Dwight and the boys

Sentencia At last

yeah. Carmen, Isabelle's assistant and niece called me this morning at 10 and told me that our Final Decree was finished and she was picking me up in a half hour to go sign lots of papers. We had to travel by taxi to the original old downtown of Bogota. The Family Court is in a very old unimposing building and Carmen said she was afraid to use the elevator because it might not work. We had to walk up several flights of very busy narrow stairs to get to family court Quince or fifteen. This is a picture of the Family Court 15. there is a ten foot long counter were petitioners cram shoulder to shoulder trying to get the attention of the court clerk, who somehow knows were your case is in all those piles of papers. She brings you your case work and your attorney looks it over and you sign that it is all correct and then it goes through the door to the right to the Judges secretaries who type up your official adoption decree and you look that over for mistakes. Ours had one so it had to be redone while we waited some more. then it goes back to the Judge who signs it and your done all in two and half hours with no where to sit, and if you lose your place at the counter you have to start at the back of the line again. It was like McDonalds at it's busiest.
Our attorney by the way is a very old very small lady. But she could elbow her way in with the best of them. By far the majority of cases being handled here are divorces or patrimony requests.
A shot of the country side on the way to the court, we took a short cut half way up the mountain and back down again in order to get around traffic jams. It is a very hazy day because there is now wind to blow the pollution away.
Here is a fun picture of some of the other children being adopted who are staying at Hotel Paris. The girl Geraldine and Tatianna are putting on play makeup and Andres is checking them out.
Today we Got the court decree signed and got Jon a new birth certificate. Because we were at the court so long we will get the passport and visit the Dr. tomorrow. On Thursday we will go to the US embassy to apply for a visa and pick it up on Friday hopefully and then I can come home.
love Dwight and the boys.

Update from Home

I thought I'd post a quick update on things on the home front. As many of you know, Jacob has been sick for weeks. He's been through one course of antibiotics but couldn't get on top of it. Turns out he has pneumonia. He started on a different antibiotic today and hopefully that will help him kick this. Maria woke up covered with hives today. She had a stomach virus a week ago and seemed a bit under the weather all week. She did get her IVIG treatment on Friday so we don't know if the hives were caused by the treatment or by something else. She is on antihistamines and regular doses of benedryl, all of which is helping. I was felled by Maria's stomach virus over the weekend, but am much better now. Even the dog was sick last week. I guess it is just one of those times. I am so grateful for all the people who have helped out over the past weeks. Thank you to all of you for all your help and for your prayers,
K

Another Monday

I know you folks like pictures so I try to keep taking interesting ones. But we didn't do much this weekend. This is Jon Felipe and Camillia playing together in the back yard. Camillia is the daughter of Valencia the Staff manager and she lives here at the residencia. She and Jon play together a lot but she is in school during the day.Luke and Jon having a snack while we were at the outdoor market.
You'll have to turn your head but this is a clown on stilts at the market. He was distributing flyers about a Christmas event that is going to happen in the future.
A picture of the artist displaying his paintings in front of the Catholic church. I bought a nice watercolor from him last weekend.
Jon Felipe is taking a nap right now. He had a seizure last night at about 7.30 as I was reading him a story at bed time. At first I thought he was pretending to be asleep because he like to play jokes. But then I could tell it was for real. He did go right to sleep when it was over. He had another seizure this morning after breakfast. He was playing with a ball in the front lobby while I watched the news and visited with other parents and he came over and sat on my lap. The next thing I knew he was toppling over onto the floor. I caught him and held him for the 40 seconds it took to be over until he startled himself awake and then he sat on my lap for about an hour not wanting to do anything else. He's had four now in the four and a half weeks we've had him which is about the frequency we'd been told he had them. We are hoping we can get home soon so we can get him to the Neurologist. Isabelle didn't have any news for me yet this morning when she came to bring Phil to the embassy but she said maybe this afternoon.
Love from Bogota, Dwight and the boys.

Sunday Morning

Hello from Bogota. I didn't think I would have much new to post but this is Latin America and you never know what might happen. A contingent of the Kyper Family stayed here last night. Gary and the boys spent an afternoon and evening her before flying home to Michigan this morning. Luke enjoyed having some boys to play with who could speak his language. Also Lat night we celebrated Deborah's birthday with cheesecake , and then we had a fiesta to commemorate Mary and Josephs journey to Bethlehem. Apparently this celebration is part of the Latin Church's Advent calender. The candles mark the road to Bethlehem. We celebrated here by doing the Salsa down the road. If any one knows what this little celebration is called you can leave me a post. Lighting the Candles.

Every one dancing. Felipe, in his pajamas, is dancing with Valencia.
hopefully I will have some news of our progress in court either Monday or Tuesday.
Love from Bogota, Dwight and the boys

Saturday

This is a cute picture of Jon Felipe helping out at the residencia, he like to follow the various staff members around and watch what they are doing. Here he is helping out the business manager I think his name is Hermon but with a spanish accent. This is a picture of the bar at El Corral where we went out to lunch yesterday. Luke thought that the big wall of booze was impressive. Sometimes a change of pace from the menu at the residencia helps one's spirits and we were celebrating Phils Sentencia.

This is a picture of our meals. The Hamburgers were very good and very large. the one on the left has mushroom sauce and bacon and the other one has chili and chedder cheese. the menu has about two dozen different hamburger choices and trying to figure what was on each in spanish was fun.
I've posted this picture before but I want you to notice the red diagonal slash above the door. It goes through the original address which is engraved into the stone. All buildings in Bogota except the very new ones have similar red slashes through the addresses. The new address is on the green plaque above the door. Not too long ago the city gevernment decided that all the adressess in Bogota where wrong and did a survery of the city and reissued new adressess. some are only wrong by a few numbers and in some places new streets had been put inbetween existing streets messing up the numbering system so whole streets were renumbered. established businesses though didn;t want ot give up their old addressess right away so now when you give a taxi and address you have to tell the driver if it is an old address or a new address. Hopefully eventually it will all become easier. Since it is the weekend there will be no news until at least Monday. We will try to keep busy here and keep Felipe out of too much trouble. He really is a good kid just stubborn sometimes, but adjusting well to having a new family I think. Looking forward to seeing Some of the Kypers this weekend as part of their family heads home. Hopefully Cheryl and Stella will not be long behind them. Love Dwight and the boys

Friday

Hello here are some pictures I haven't posted yet. The first two are from Tatis' Felize Cumplemtios, She turned nine last Sunday and we had a fiesta. Tatis is in pink and she and Maria became good friends while they were together inspite of the language difference. Her little sister is Angela. This is Tatis with some of the staff here at Hotel Paris Juanita is on the right she is the head cook.
This is pictuer of some of the street vendors when we were out shopping for Christmas ornaments the other day.
Another picture of the Christmas shopping district. It was about six city blocks of Christmas paraphenilia. And quite busy with shoppers, Felize Navidad is big business here in Bogota. I'm a bit dissapointed that I have no new news to report to you but not much happens here on the weekends. Keep us in your prayers. Esp pray that Jacob and Maria, back home, regain their health. I feel helpless that I cannot be home to take some of the load off from Kathy. She is shouldering a lot without me to help. Love Dwight and the boys.

More of Luke's pictures

Luke took this picture of a street vendor selling fruit and fruit juice. Although the tropical fruit looks very tasty, eating food from a street vendor is asking for tummy trouble later. These pictures are at Ayudame at Jonathans's presentation day fiesta. In the top one he is sitting on Nancy's lap she was one of his teachers at his special school. His teachers were very interested to know how special ed was done in the US and asked many questions of Kathy and me about what we did as teachers. They hoped that Colombia would start to mainstram it's children with special needs in future.
Interacting with all the children, they were all very sweet and mostly well behaved, some had too much sugar though.

We are enjoying the weather here and going on small adventures to keep busy. Yesterday we went to an area of the city were there was a whole bunch of shops that sold Christmas decorations. We were looking for decorations made in Colombia to remember our time here. the problem was that all the shops sold were imported stuff from China or Indonesia or the US. It was fun though watching some of the vendors constructing those reindeer lawn ornaments right on the sidewalk. Feliz Navidad rom Colombia, Dwight and the boys

Late night musings

Hello faithful readers
Last Suday at the market, I had a nice conversation with a young Colombian couple. I was putting Jon Felipe's brace and shoes back on after he had played for a while in one of those inflatable play structures, and this nice couple asked me if I had just adopted Jon and if he was from Bogota. I told them I had and he was from Ayudame. They too, they said In there limited English, had adopted their childern here in Bogota and they hauled two cute kids out of the trampoline to introduce them. They had noticed Felipe they said becase of his leg which is very obviously disabled when he isn't wearing his brace. And when they saw him with Luke and I they knew he must be adopted. I don't know how they could tell, he looks just like Luke don't you think. We talked about adoption and how long it took for Felipe to get us as a family, and they were thankful that we were willing to accept him because the older he gets the less chance for adoption he would have had. They told me there weren't many oppoertunities for people with disabilities in Bogota. They wished me well as we parted company. It got me thinking about other disabled people I had seen here in Colombia.
Now I think I've told you that busking is a high art here in Bogota. But they are not the only people you see working the busy intersections. There are windshield washers, and vendors selling everything from cell phone accessories to plantane chips and cigerattes at all intersections that have stop lights. And this is a dangerous industry because traffic in Bogota is terrible. It might not be as bad as Dakah, Bangledesh but here is what you will see here. Lane lines are ignored, if you can fit four cars across a two lane road then it is a four lane road. To merge onto a busy road you play chicken with the oncoming traffic and keep inching out until someone slows down and lets you in. If you get your front bumper there first you have the right of way, unless you hesitate. If you can get there faster by going the wrong way on a road, that's ok. As soon as a traffic light turns green everyone must honk their horns. There are no rules for motorcycles they can go anywhere they want, they zoom between traffic, and at stop lights they all go to the front of the line. Throw into this mix big diesel busses which stop anywhere to pick up passengers and horse drawn carts and it gets pretty exciting, which is why pedestrians generally stay our of the roads. Except for three groups of people, buskers who juggle or twirl of tumble at red lights and then try to collect coins before the green light. The unemployed who work as vendors walking up and down the rows of cars, and beggers who knock at your windows as you wait. Some are just poor people looking for a hand out, some are disabled and they limp or push themselves along on carts or skateboards. But the most daring man I saw was blind and he would listen for traffic to stop and then with his white cane tapp his way along the rows of cars knocking at all the windows asking for a few coins. He looked to be of late middle age although it was hard to tell for sure, and I was most amaized that he had survived in Bogota traffic long enough to reach such an age with his disability.
I'm not sure when children age out of orphanages here in Colombia, whether it is at 14 or 16. And I don't know what Jonathan would have learned in the special school for disabled children if he were to grow up here. I know that he is 7 and very curious about the world around him but cannot read or write yet. And I know that he would never get the opportunity to go to regular school. The young couple I met at the market seemed to think that I was giving him a life with much better opportunities beyond begging at street corners. And I guess that's why I'm here. Kathy and I didn't travel here becaue we were desperate for another child or felt unfulfilled, we didn't do it to feel good about ourselves or win accolades. We came here because we believe that God's children shouldn't have to beg for coins on street corners.
Love from Colombia, Dwight and the boys

Wednesday Morning

These are pictures from Luke's camera. I thought it would be interesting to see what he has taken pictures of. The first picture is one Lule took of the rest of us in front of some rustic looking buildings up on Monserrate.

This is a man selling rides on his llama at the bottom of Monserrate. It was a beautiful looking animal but seemed a bit surly so we stayed away from it.

The next picture is in the resturante where we had lunch up on top of the mountain. there were great veiws out of all the windows. It was very beautiful. There were even great views from the bathrooms.
This is a picture if the resturants version of a typical Colombian lunch. There was red bean stew, rice with a fried egg on top, a fried rice patty, fried plantains, sausage, deep fried pig skin and avacodo. It was mostly pretty good stuff. Kathy gave her pig skin to Johnny the driver and he took it home to eat later.

I had a lot of problems with this posting the settings are messed up somewhere so the pictures might not be in order.

Love Dwight and the boys

Done with first stage

Isabelle just called and she told me that the Judge has signed the petition and now it is at the Defender of Minors. They have 3 or 5 business days to sign it, I'm not sure which because it depends on which court you are in. after that it goes back to the same Judge for final approval which is called Sentencia and that can take up to another 10 business days. Once we have our Sentencia, and I'm not real clear on how these steps go but Isabelle will walk me through, we get a new birth certificate with mine and Kathy's name on it, we get cleared by the Dr., we apply for a passport and then we apply for a visa, that all takes 3 or 4 business days. But at least we know where we are.
love
dwight and the boys

Later Tuesday

Well we had a nice visit with Isabelle this morning although she still has a bad cough from her broncitis. She assured me she was feeling much better. She was sorry that she didn't have any information for us. She said usually she can get information on how each petition is doing but lately things have been tough for all the adoption agencies in the courts. Everybody she know is having some problems. One of her collegues has a family who has been in country for three months. She is confident though that we will be gone before the courts close for the holidays, and she will keep trying to find out something for us.
It rained all night but it is a beautiful day today. After we talked to Isabelle we decided to go for a walk to Pan Pa Ya, which is a bakery with a cafe. It has a large play area for children and isn't busy during the work day so Luke can play in the ball pit and not get in trouble. It costs about 5 dollors to buy pastries and cokes for all of us and then the kids can play for a while. Felipe slept in an extra hour this morning which was nice and he is in a great mood today. Tonight we are planning on watching Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer on the TV with all the other families. We hope it will just be subtitled and not overdubbed, but either way it should be fun.
Love from Colombia, Dwight and the boys

Tuesday third week anniversary with Felipe

These loaded in weird for some reason but the dog looks just like Thor a dog we had when I was a child. So now we know what happened to him, he is in Colombia doing dog shows. The picture below is of a arts and crafts sale in the courtyard of a very fancy hotel. It was like Art in the Park.

The picture to the right is another shot of the coutyard of the hotel. It is very large and beautiful with lots of fountains and sculptures. Below is a picture of the local Catholic church. There are vendors in the courtyard out front waiting for mass to be over so the people will maybe buy their goods. I bought a small watercolor painting from a young artist who had them displayed on the fence.

Today Isabelle said she would come by in the late morning. I'm not really expecting any new from her but it would be nice to hear something. I'll let you know if I learn anything otherwise we will probably walk to the park unless it rains. Dwight and the boys.

Monday morning

The view across the valley from Panaca. I was told that Zipiquera is on the side of the distant mountain just off the right hand side of this shot. These are the kind of views you see when you get out of the city. The building in the background to the right is a beer brewery.Jonathan keeping away from the piglets. He will probably not be a farmer when he grows up. He found all the animals to be something to be avoided.
Luke pretending to be a trained dog. there where lots of children running around the dog obstacle course before the show started.
One of the trained dogs catching a Frisbee. This was a very entertaining show. Lots of different kinds of dogs doing tricks. Go Dogs Go
We haven't gotten any news from Isabelle yet she has been at the courts all morning so maybe we will get news later. Our friends the Barnse's got some not so good news this morning their paperwork has mistakes in it that need to be corrected before it can be processed. They have been here more than seven weeks now and are anxious to be home. Several other families are finishing up this week and will be gone by Wednesday so we will have a much smaller group then. I'm still hoping for good news today or tomorrow. Felipe is getting bored with the entertainment offerings around here and that leads to trouble sometimes, not unlike any other 7 year old looking to keep occupied, but perhaps with less experience that leads to common sense. He is getting tired now so is slowing down. The Velcro on his leg brace is just about worn out so it doesn't stay on properly and this is bothering him and making it more difficult for him to walk. I've been looking for something to fix it with at least temporarily but with no luck yet.
I'll put up a post as soon as I hear any news about our situation. Love Dwight and the boys

Waiting at home

Just a note from those us here in the states waiting for our family to be reunited. It is has been difficult to be apart for such a long time and I really miss the guys back in Colombia. I am particularly concerned about Jonathan. It probably feels to him like I dropped into his life for a short time only to disappear again. Please pray that our family can be together again, perhaps even by the end of this week. This would correspond to the time frame we were originally given, so this isn't totally unrealistic. I picked up tickets at church this morning for the hymn sing in the barn this coming Sunday night. On faith, I got enough for ALL of us to attend.
K

Sunday Mornig

I pick these pictures from little thumbnail size ones so I never know if I'm getting the best ones. This is a picture from the taxi of the mountains. I think there are big country estates up on the sides of the mountain. It is expensive to build a house and live out in the country side like this and commute into Bogotá esp with gas here at about 3.50 a gallon but it is also much more beautiful and the air is cleaner. Luke by some horses and / or mules with coffee beans loaded on their backs, part of a exhibition of the ways beasts of burden have been used in Colombia.
The pig races. This show must have been very funny because everyone was laughing. We enjoyed it even though we didn't get the jokes.
This is the winner being interviewed.
We are going to an open air craft market this morning so I will talk to you latter.
Love Dwight and the boys.

Trip to Panaca Sabana

Today we went on a trip to Panaca Sabana, which is like a glorified petting zoo. It had exhibitions on all aspects of agriculture and horticulture and animal shows and exhibitions. It was interesting and at times entertaining and crowded, there were a lot of tour buses there for some special promotion. This is a picture of a butcher shop we passed on the way there in some little village situated at an intersection of the highway and some road. Notice the meat just hanging out front.

Another shot of that small village, the road kind of climbs up the side of the mountain.
Luke and Jon Felipe by some kind of bull. Jon was afraid of the animals so he did not pet any or even want to be near them.
This is a miniature pony. There were stalls there showing many varieties of all the animals. There were probably examples of 30 different breeds of horses from all over the world, and the same for rabbits and chickens and pigeons and cows and pigs etc... Lots to see.
Tomorrow I will show pictures from some of the animal shows.
Love Dwight and the boys.