Happy Birthday Teresa! Today she’s 56 years old; I think!
Last night I got up once at 4:20, woke up at
7:10 and got up at 8am.
Teresa made scrambled eggs with tomato and onion
and an arepa with cheese for breakfast.
She also made coffee with cream in her blender that we shared.
Laura is going with us to today’s Bears game at
Patrick’s so that will be a little different.
She will probably love seeing the young gringos there with their blue
eyes.
Teresa wants to leave at 10:30 but I want to
leave at 10am because I’m afraid we might have to wait for 30 minutes to catch
a bus.
We left the finca at 10:15 and were lucky that
the dogs didn’t hear us until we were already past the house and then the
doberman didn’t come out at all. The
other dog hung back, maybe because we were already so far away or maybe because
he isn’t with the alpha male.
We got to the road at 10:25 and only had to wait
10 minutes for a bus. We were at the
Poblado station by just after 11am.
Thinking that I may need to buy a modem soon I told Teresa there is
something I’m going to need to buy at Monterrey
soon so we went there. I learned of a
new way to get across the street by actually going under the bridge by the
highway and there is a back entrance into the mall. But being Sunday almost all the stores were
closed. I believe Laura was able to get
wi-fi on her cell phone but I wasn’t able to get it on my iPad. Teresa did her nails and I read some in my
Nook while Laura played with her phone.
At 11:45 we took a taxi to Patrick’s and got
there 3 minutes early. He put the game
on and we all had a drink and sat inside to watch it. Just after halftime it started raining, then
harder, and finally we actually saw hail hitting the awning of the restaurant
across the street. One of the gringos
went out on the porch and took some video of it. Laura had the beef stroganoff and Teresa and I
each had the Thai Stir Fry Chicken.
Laura had a couple juices, I had a couple Cokes and Teresa had a couple
Miller Lights. The Bears built up a 2
touchdown lead but the Panthers got one back just before halftime.
I checked Amazon.com and found I can purchase
pepper spray so I should be able to renew my supply as long as customs allows
it through.
I also got an email that I have a package at MBE
for me to pick up. I wonder what that
could be.
The Bears ended up losing by a touchdown. I paid 134,750 for lunch with my debit card
and we left. The rain had stopped and we
walked a couple blocks where we caught a taxi to Envigado. About 5 minutes into the ride I couldn’t see
his meter and I guess they noticed this as the driver finally turned it on and
I believe he was apologizing for forgetting.
I was going to tip him an extra 2mil but he ended up adding 3mil to the
total for our ride anyway.
At Exito I took enough money out of their
Davivienda ATM to cover the final payment on the closet and then we did some
shopping. It’s not a good idea to shop
on the weekends, it was really crowded.
I paid 163,652 for food. I now
have 25,000 Exito points; maybe when my brother comes I can talk to Teresa
about what we can use them for. I just
talked to Teresa about it and she said that if you don’t use the points you can
use them so next time we’re in Exito she will check on what they can be used
for.
The clouds looked threatening again but we
managed to get to the bus stop and only had to wait 5 minutes for one. It started raining again on the way but
luckily it had stopped by the time we got off.
Going up the hill we observed a nice car stuck on the road but for some
reason Teresa didn’t want to help push them out. About the time we were even with the house
with the dogs they started barking but the owner came out and shut them up.
When we got back to the house we were surprised
to see that we no longer had electricity.
We used all the cell phones and flashlights we had but it looked like
they were all soon in need of recharging.
We bought ice cream and cake to celebrate our birthdays but my the time
we got back to the finca the ice cream was more like soup. Nevertheless, we each had a slice of cake and
a bowl of vanilla soup and I sang Happy Birthday to celebrate her birthday. Teresa went to bed at 8:30 and its 9:35 and
the electricity still hasn’t come back on but now it’s time for me to go to
bed.
T-shirt of the day: Born free – Surfrider Beach
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