Thursday, September 1, 2011

PTA Lunch Sounds Boring, but Read On...

Shortly after school started, we received and invitation for the PTA lunch.  One thinks of a PTA lunch and one things of a boring afternoon of finger sandwiches and "refreshments".  Well, our PTA lunch was anything but...

We traveled about an hour north of the city to Andres Carne de Res, a world famous (at least in the Latin American world) restaurant that is part steakhouse-part informal dinner theater-part found art gallery-part kid zone-and-part dance floor.  We arrived hungry and ready for lunch, not knowing that we were in for quite an experience.

Random actors would roam around the restaurant and have inaudible conversations, pray to ambiguous statues and be completely engrossed in their own world of ? 

Refreshing beverages 



Ceiling art that Rick Rozet would love.

The whole restaurant looks like this.  One of our local friends told us that this restaurant can accommodate 2,000 people on a busy weekend night.




In the kid area, they had rock climbing, stilt walking, mask making, carpentry (Linnea made a guitar), dancing, a puppet show, and face painting.  Linnea wanted the Colombian flag:  Gold for the vast amounts of gold found in its lands, blue for the shores that flank the north and west and red for the blood that flowed on the battlegrounds by the people who secured Colombia's freedom.



Even the path to the parking lot was decorated and entertaining.

4 comments:

  1. Wow, what a place! I wonder what the next party will be like? Nice fig leaves.

    Love, MOM

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  2. Wow, what a PTA affair. What will the next party be like? Nice fig leaves.

    Love, MOM

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  3. Not the kind of place you'd go to all the time, but certainly when family comes into town! love you...

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  4. That place looks like a lot of FUN! I could wander around the found art objects area for a long long time. Glad that event he work events are turning fun!

    JW

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