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More from Cartagena

Feb 11 – This morning we walked down to the Catedral de Santa Catalina, which is open and airy.

A colorful dome
An ornate altar
Really old statues
A Virgin of Guadalupe

In the square, we found a bronze Botero. Note the discoloration of the boobs and butt due to repeated handling!

Gertrudis

There are lots of amusing little iron statues here:

See the puppy relaxing in the shade?
There is also a big statue of Cervantes

There is a small park, with lots of people looking up. Turns out there is a resident sloth named Juan, and a few little monkeys.

Hola Juan!
A monkey
Another monkey

As a bonus, we spied a friendly iguana who didn’t mind being photographed:

Hola, iguana!

It is Super Bowl Sunday, and Jim scoped out several restaurants with big screen TVs for our dinner. We thought lots of tourists would be interested in watching the game, but we seemed to be the only ones. Congratulations to Team Taylor!