Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up twice during the night, finally waking/getting up at 6:45.
I left the apt at 8:30 and met Glenn with Bianca in Olivenza
at 9am. For his upcoming (health insurance covered) hernia surgery he needs to
first meet with the anesthesiologist. He asked when that will be and was told
up to 3 months.
For breakfast I ordered the French toast with bacon. I asked
for it quemada (burned). I still had to send it back once for them to get it
close to crispy. I’m going to give up on the bacon here.
He left at 10am and I left at 10:15 and walked back to the
apt. I found a flyer on the table in the porteria advertising Tienda D1’s
grand opening this Tuesday, the 14th. We already have lots of
traffic on our street, I can’t imagine what another grocery store is going to
do.
We left at 11:15 and took a Didi to Jardin de Botanico. We
didn’t have to pay an entrance fee and Teresa led me to a pond where there were
2 benches. Here you can see turtles sunning themselves on 2 large rocks:
We took one of the benches and carefully set up the
parcheesi set Teresa brought.
At the other bench, behind my back, various girls briefly sat
there in fancy dresses and had photos taken by professional photographers, at
least men with those fancy cameras with huge long lenses. The most impressive
was a girl with the whitest skin I’ve seen with long reddish-brown hair. I
wondered if she was Irish. I never did see her face.
After a few games Teresa brought out her “Tupperware” with
chicken breast and vegetables for lunch. Right away I asked, “where’s my
barbeque sauce?”. Of course, she forgot it. We walked around a little and found
a small bazaar set up. We also found an area with a few tables and quickly
commandeered one. We shared an avocado ice cream bar and an obleas and played a
couple more games of parcheesi. (I think she beat me like 4 games to 2; and
does she gloat about it, at least as much as I do when I win.) There was
another girl in a fancy black prom-like dress having photos taken and later she
changed into a shorter dress. I asked Teresa if this was for quinciañera? She
said it’s popular place for that, birthdays, first communions, and any other
special occasions.
I understand the park closes officially at 4pm and we left
just before 5pm and walked through a children’s carnival (complete with pony
rides) to the metro. It was only a 10-minute wait for a metro car and we got
off at Ayurá station. Teresa said she was hungry so we took a taxi directly to
Antica pizzeria where we had our usual pizza. We walked down the hill and
bought 2 chocolate croissants at the bakery before returning to the apt (in
heavy traffic downtown Envigado with the Christmas lights) by taxi.
Tomorrow Teresa wants to go to Parque Arvi but she’s afraid
it might be closed for some reason. (They are closed on Mondays unless it is a
holiday in which case they are closed on Tuesday.)
I understand the bridge that has the problem is much closer
to Santafe de Antioquia than San Jeronimo so it won’t be a problem for us for
Christmas.
CHOOSING A
CHILDFREE LIFE
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