I slept well last night until 4am when Teresa got up to help
Laura. After that I just rested finally
getting up at 8:30.
I checked the US movie openings and I would like
to see Run All Night (7.2) and It Follows (7.3) sounds interesting.
We left the finca at 10:30 and I gave the doberman a large
dog biscuit that kept him occupied long enough for us to get away. On the way down the sideroad we saw some
fresh cement that had been poured in a previously bare area of the road.
We only had to wait 5 minutes for a bus to Envigado. The driver dropped us off behind Home Center
so we had only a short walk to Exito.
I took quite a bit of cash out of the Exito ATM while Teresa
got in line to repay the credit card. She
was unsuccessful in reaching Wilson or Martha by cell phone so she sent me
across the street to Bocados Bar to
bring Wilson
but only Martha was there. We checked
both our phones and I understood neither of us had the correct cell phone
number of the other. After we got that
straightened out I went back to Teresa and had her call Martha again. I understood that Wilson found out that the bicycles he wants
to buy and charge to Teresa’s card are on sale tomorrow so we have to come
back. We paid off Teresa’s Exito credit
card of 250mil. She bought packages of
peanuts and gum and we used my Exito points card. I have 53,482 points and I understood that
Teresa asked the checker and found out I could trade my points for cash. I said I would prefer that so we went over to
the Exito customer service booth. We
both gave the lady there our Cedulas and she looked something up and gave each
of us a piece of paper with a different 6-digit number on each. We went back to one of the tellers who entered
each of the 6-digit numbers and then we each had to enter a 4-digit pin
number. Then I understood the checker
told Teresa that we could only use points for purchase discounts. I didn’t learn anything new in that transaction.
We walked across the street where we had lunch at La Bahia for 18mil. Today they didn’t have chicken so I took a
chance and ordered beef. Usually
Colombian beef is so tough you can’t chew it but they must have tenderized
the heck out of it because it was quite tender – even if it did taste like
tenderizer.
We walked up the hill where Teresa spent about 15 minutes
talking to the lady who recently fixed the hem on her blouse.
Today was a cloudy day, thankfully, and Teresa didn’t think
it was hot but I didn’t agree. It
probably isn’t hot to a gringo if you don’t move but I walked back and forth to
the bar and then up the steep hill.
We walked a few more blocks where we caught a bus to Santafe
mall. We walked about 3 blocks up
another steep hill and down another to the building the lawyer lives in. Teresa sat outside while I went in
alone. I think she wanted to cool
off. I picked up my documents and paid
him 420mil for the 7 Apostilled signatures.
James asked me if we wanted to apply for the Union Libre and I told him
we found out there are complications because Teresa’s daughter is
underage. James responded that there are
ways to get around that.
We took a taxi to MBE etc. where they gave me 3 envelopes:
one was the payment detail for my Sears pension payment for March, another was a
change of address confirmation from CSC, and the last was the payment detail
for my Zurich
pension payment for March. If I haven’t
already requested it, I need to call Sears and Zurich and request not to send me a payment
detail every month.
I paid 15mil which I think was for the 3 envelopes.
I also paid 37,454.85 but I had no idea what it was
for. When I got back to the finca I
asked Teresa about it and she said it was for my March rent. I showed her the receipt from back in
February when I paid February and March’s rent on the same day. Teresa changed her tune and then said it was
for April’s rent. I don’t think she
knows what and when it was for so she’s going to call MBE tomorrow morning to
inquire.
I gave them my Apostilled documents and chose a Fed-Ex delivery
date of next Wednesday for 94,600 (about $36).
They tried to enter the information into the computer but the system
(not sure if it’s MBE or Fed-Ex) wouldn’t accept 200 W. Higgins Road. We tried abbreviating and not abbreviating
various portions of the address but it still wouldn’t accept it. Finally the lady googled the address, found
it was accurate, and wrote up the order manually.
When we left I stopped at a Gana store where I added 20mil to my cell phone.
We walked up the hill about 10 blocks to Vizcaya CC for the
3:10 showing of The Imitation Game
for 15mil. (After what I think has been 2 years it looks
like they might almost be finished remodeling the mall.) I ordered a medium popcorn and a large soda
for me and a medium soda for Teresa. As
I expected we both enjoyed the movie very much.
We got out of the theatre at 5:30 and took a taxi down to the highway. After a 10 minute wait we decided to take a
bus to Caldas first. Because of traffic
and stops we didn’t get to Caldas until 7pm.
After another 5 minute wait we were on a bus to the finca. We got past the killer dogs undetected and
were at the finca just after 7:30.
If we visit Chicago
this June one of the places I would like to take them is the Ravinia Music
Festival. The Gipsy Kings are playing
there on Wednesday the 17th so if we arrive on the 16th or
earlier we would be able to see them. (The
Ravinia Festival is the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States,
with a series of outdoor concerts and performances held every summer from June
to September. It has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
since 1936. The Gipsy Kings are a group
of musicians from Arles and Montpellier in the south of France who perform in Spanish with
an Andalusian accent.)
Laura didn’t get back to the finca until after 10:30.
I took my sleeping pills at 10:30 and we went to bed at
11pm.
T-shirt of the day: I’m young and in love.
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