I got up once at 4:30am and once again had
difficulty getting back to sleep. At
5:15 Luna started barking for some reason.
At 5:30 the fireworks factory set off their first test of the day; that’s
when I could see the first light coming through the top edge of the
shutters. At 5:45 Luna started barking
again. At 7:30 Une called and I
understood they will be coming tomorrow afternoon. I guess Teresa got up then but I fell back
asleep and woke/got up at 8am.
The plan today is to go to MBE to pay my box
rental for November and then stop in Mayorca where I can buy at least one pair
of new jeans and Teresa will get her hair done and a manicure. While she’s doing her thing I’ll try to find
Wi-Fi to take care of a few things with my iPad.
We left the finca around noon, managed to slip
unnoticed past the killer dogs and caught a Fredonia bus after a 10 minute
wait. We got off in El Poblado and
walked a couple blocks up the hill to the Exito. When we got inside we saw a long line into
BanColombia probably because it’s the first of the month. Teresa sat down at a table in their food
court while I got in line at the bank. I
motioned her over and tried to give her the forms for the drawing she had filled
out but she reminded me they are only for the grocery store in Caldas. I got back in line and noticed there was no
one in front of the ATM machine. I waved
Teresa over and we walked over and took out some cash. Teresa wanted to buy a small frying pan so we
went into Exito and found one for 9mil but when we went to pay we decided to
skip it today because the lines were so long.
Beware the 1st of the month in Exito!
On our way up Calle 10 she mentioned that after
MBE we would take a bus to Envigado and another bus to Majorca CC. I told her it would be faster to walk back
down to the metro which would take us directly to Majorca.
We walked up 3 blocks to MBE to pay my November
rent but I understood the lady there can’t create a receipt. I seem to remember that happening to me
before. I guess we should have called
first. Tomorrow’s Sunday and Monday is a
holiday so we plan to come back on Tuesday.
While we were there I asked the lady what would be the fastest way to
get to Majorca and she said to walk down to
the metro station. So there!
We did that and had lunch at AsiaWok, very similar to Panda Express,
for 31,400.
We went upstairs and found a couple pairs of
blue jeans for me but Teresa had them hold them for us while we looked around
some more. We went outside and finally
found 3 pairs of blue jeans for me for a total of 129,900 (43,200 each or less
than $22 a pair) which I charged to my debit card. While we were outside we stopped and
recharged Laura’s cell phone with 10mil.
Back inside the mall Teresa bought some hair and
fingernail supplies for 19mil. I thought
she was going to have her hair and fingernails done in the mall. I had asked her how long it would take to do
that and she replied 2 hours so I thought I would be reading my emails while
she was having herself done.
We stopped for a snack at Grupo de Lolita where I was finally able to get a decent Wi-Fi
connection. We each had a slice of
strawberry cheesecake and cup of coffee for 15,600. Teresa seemed surprised when I told her that
in America
this is called cheesecake. She couldn’t
believe the filling was cheese. I called
over the waitress and asked her what’s inside and she replied queso – cheese. Teresa was in shock. We stayed there about an hour while I
accomplished some things on my iPad that I need Wi-Fi for:
I emailed the photo of
my health insurance payment(s) to Natalia Holgun.
I saw that yesterday I
received 4 emails from the Miami MBE office requesting a copy of my purchase
order from Amazon for the 4 bottles of pepper spray. I think I was successful in sending it to
them.
I tried to send the
purchase order from Shedrain for my umbrella but I don’t think the order itself
got downloaded properly.
I sent a followup email
to my son giving him the address to use if he was going to send the
SuperNintendo by USPS.
I tried to post a little
message to my blog but when I tried to log in it looked like it was using Harry
Kamp’s userid so I gave up on that.
I wanted to order more
prostate vitamins from GNC but that proved to be too difficult to do from my
ipad.
I read many of the 34
outstanding emails I had received since last Wednesday.
We stopped at La Sasteria where I had my new jeans measured and they wanted to
know if we want to pick them up tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday (a holiday). We told him Tuesday afternoon would work for
us.
We stopped at El Corral and bought a hamburger and French fries for Laura for
16,500.
At least I managed to find some more “t-shirts”
today to add to my blog.
We left the mall and walked a couple blocks
where we waited for a bus back to the finca.
We waited for about 15 minutes for an express bus and we were about to
give up when we got the last 2 seats on a Fredonia bus exactly at 6pm. Teresa got a seat about halfway back and I
sat in the back row. There were already
3 men and 2 women each with a baby or child in their lap, but they made room
for me and my butt just barely squeezed in.
When we got off the bus there was a half moon
giving us enough light to see the side road without using a flashlight. We got just passed the neighbor’s house when
the killer dogs came out. I held them
off with my umbrella while threatening them with my pepper spray and Teresa used
a stick.
We got back to the finca at 7pm.
When we got home Teresa realized we forgot to
pay the electric bill at Exito. I guess
that’s one more thing we will have to take care of next Tuesday. It looks like we’ll be retracing our steps
next Tuesday: returning to Exito, MBE, and Mayorca.
Teresa and Laura watched a Colombian concert
from Miami and
then there was a program about Colombianas who have won beauty contests. They told me there’s a good movie coming on
at 10pm so I guess it will be a late night tonight. The movie started at 9:20 and it starred
Jodie Foster and I believe the translation is Flight Plan. The only
problem for me is that it’s dubbed in Spanish.
During each commercial Laura switched to a different movie called A Mother’s Fury.
We went to bed at 11pm.
T-shirt of the day: Give love, its summertime.
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