For one of our date nights, we switched it to a Friday afternoon when Tobias gets out early. We took Rebekah and toured the lighthouse they say Columbus is buried in. The DNA debate is still on with Spain, but the lighthouse is pretty amazing. We really enjoyed our time with Beckah and liked seeing the museums inside from tons of different countries. Columbus' signature is cool-lots of symbols to basically say he is Christ's servant. The whole story is pretty sad...Columbus never was paid...and no one really knows where he is from or any of his family. They think he might have been Jewish and changed his name so they couldn't trace any information back to him. I am glad the Americas were discovered, but with them came basically the entire destruction of the Taino Indians of the Dominican Republic. We all know the same story in several different countries where this happened and the struggle continues between old and new "power." (Guatemala, etc.) Needless to say "Colombus Day" is not always a celebrated holiday in Latin countries.
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