Sunday, September 1, 2019

Last night I went to bed at 11pm, quickly fell asleep, woke up at 6:30, had a drink of water, returned to bed and didn’t wake/get up until 8:05am.

I left the apt at 9:20 and walked a block to catch a bus.  (Teresa didn’t come with me as she was looking for a piee of paper with her doctor’s appointment and she had to do laundry and clean the house.  Anyway, that was her excuse.) After 5-10 minutes I decided to walk to the Ayura metro station.  Walking down Avenida Las Vegas I got the idea of taking a bus to the Poblado station.  One soon arrived and I arrived at the station 15 minutes early.  Yikes, I forgot my cellphone.  The ladies arrived 10 minutes later.

We took the metro to the Acevedo station and took a metro cable car to Parque Arvi.  They explored the arts & crafts bizarre and shared a container of strawberries.  I bought an empanada but it wasn’t as good as last time when Teresa bought them.

We walked to the road and there was about a 20-minute wait for a bus.  When we arrived at Comfamalco (sp?) ecological park there was a long slow moving line.  We were all getting hungry so after we got our bracelets for 15mil each we followed a parth to Piedras Blancas Hotel where we had an amazing lunch on their outdoor patio.

We walked around the lake noting how low the water level is now.  Of course the zipline was closed.

We left the area at 3pm and took a bus back to the park entrance.  While I was in the restroom the ladies met a couple Indian guys in the café that were from Chicago.  We each had a cup of coffee and then went to the park exit where we found a long line for the metro cable cars.  I left them in line and confirmed that it was for purpose of buying tickets.  Luckily, I had my Civica card with me and like VIPs we moved to a much shorter line.

We took the metro cable to the metro and got off at the Poblado station.  I went with them to their apartment where they divied up their stuff between their backpacks and their suitcases.  I took their suitcases back to our apartment.  I only had 2 50s and 2 2s to pay the taxi driver so I had to run upstairs to my apt for a 20.

9,870 steps today.

Joke of the day

One day, a gentleman went to the dentist's office to have a tooth pulled. 

The dentist pulls out a freezing needle to give him a shot.
"No way! No needles! I hate needles", the man said.

The dentist starts to hook up the laughing gas and the man immediately objected.
"I can't do the gas thing either; the thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating to me!"

The dentist then asks the gentleman if he has any objection to taking a pill.
"No objection", the man said. "I'm fine with pills".
The dentist leaves for a moment and then returns and says, "Here's a Viagra tablet".

The gentleman, totally at a loss for words, said in amazement, "WOW, I didn't know Viagra worked as a pain killer!"

"It doesn't", said the dentist, "but it will give you something to hold on to while I pull your tooth."