Saturday, August 23, 2014

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014



Last night we went to bed at 10:30, I got up 3 or 4 times during the night and finally woke/got up at 8am.

At 1:10pm Teresa locked up Peter because apparently he sometimes goes down to the road and we left the finca for Teresa’s appointment with doctor Uribe.  When we got to the road we looked back and Tony was standing there looking at us.  At 1:30 we finally caught a TraTan bus to Poblado for 7mil.  For 4,500 we took a taxi to the medical center and arrived about 40 minutes early.  We had a tasty lunch in their outdoor cafeteria.  For 28 mil total (about 7 dollars each) we had soup, salad, sliced chicken breast with gravy, rice, 2 torta de choclos, juice and a cookie. 
Torta de choclo is neither bread, souffle, nor pudding exactly - it's some kind of delicious combination of the three. It slices like cornbread, but it's light and airy like a soufflé, yet creamy like corn pudding. And is it a dessert or a side dish? Could be either. Torta de choclo makes a nice breakfast too, with some coffee or hot chocolate.

At the doctor’s office we waited about 20 minutes for our turn.  We both went to a small closet sized office where Dr. Uribe “burned” off 3 “beauty marks” from Teresa’s neck, shoulder, and thigh.  The total cost was the office visit – 120mil (about $60).

Her next appointment is October 14th at 3pm for the doctor to look at the improvement, if any, on her face from the last visit.

We walked down to Avenida Poblado where we caught a bus back to Envigado and visited for a while at Wilson’s bar.

At the Envigado metro station we caught a private van back to the finca for 6mil.  It was dark but she managed to find the entrance to her side road.
T-shirt of the day: This is my drinking shirt.  I wear it every day.

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