28 days and counting!
We slept well, finally waking/getting up at 8am. (I did hear the dogs a bit earlier but they
weren’t that bothersome.)
It’s a very cool morning thus far – still only 70 degrees at
11:15am.
Teresa just told me how hot it is but she just came in from
cleaning leaves and branches from the path down from the sideroad.
Peter likes to grab stones, carry them to the edge of the
cliff, push them down and then chase them down to the bottom.
I found I can do my Duolingo
lessons on my laptop – I don’t have to do them on my iPad. Too bad I can’t play Words with Friends on my laptop also.
The Colombian news reported that the 100mil bill has now hit
the streets.
We left the finca at 2:45 and got past the G-dogs
undetected. On our way down the sideroad
Mario picked us up in his SUV. The new
highway northbound lanes are now closed and they are using the southbound lanes
for traffic in both directions (separated by markers of course). They opened the small bridge on the Amaga
side and also the small bridge on the Caldas side. That removes another curve prior to the
sideroad.
He dropped us off at the triangle as he was going to
Caldas. We only had to wait 5 minutes
for a bus and it soon started raining lightly.
We had the taxi driver drop us off at Citibank where I made
a cash withdrawal. Next door at
BanColombia I only had to wait in line about 10 minutes to pay my health
insurance for April.
We walked over to Carbón
de Leña where we waited for Laura to join us. While waiting for Laura we each had a juice
and shared a cup of tiramisu. It had
stopped raining so after a while I finally told Teresa I would go to recharge the
cell phone and return. When I came back
I told her I was going to take care of my flashdrive. Then I went to the pharmacy and bought my
Tamsulosin for the month for 42,900 (no change from last month). When I got back to the restaurant Laura was
there.
She wasn’t hungry so they went to get their nails done and I
went to the park to play chess. I
quickly found an opponent I’ve played before.
He isn’t very strong, took quite a bit of time to make his moves and I
won 2 games by the time Teresa and Laura returned about 90 minutes later. As we were finishing up the second game I had
Teresa go buy me a new watch band. It
only cost 5mil and we finished shortly after they returned.
We walked back to Carbón
de Leña for dinner. Teresa had fish,
Laura had a casserole and I had pork shish kebab. Add 4 juices and the total came to
67,500. In hindsight I think I may have paid
twice for the earlier juices and tiramisu.
Teresa convinced me not to pay the Direct TV and Une bills
until we also had the epm (electric) bill.
We quickly caught a taxi, dropped Laura off a couple blocks
from her apartment, and got off at the highway.
After about a 20 minute wait we took a Fredonia bus. In Caldas Teresa got off and walked down a
block and picked up the electric bill. I
missed seeing the Kachotis restaurant and before I knew it we were at the
sideroad.
I gave the black dog a dog biscuit and we were back at the
finca by 8:20. I put Peluche and Luna in
the doghouse so we can sleep tonight.
I loved the weather today - not real hot.
T-shirt of the day: Believe in yourself.
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