Saturday, December 30, 2017

Last night I slept well despite getting up several times during the night.  We got a little rain starting about 2am.

Laura told me she doesn’t think the couple are interested anymore as they were supposed to call her last night.

After breakfast I stopped at the paper store where I printed out the au pair letter.  Then I bought a few things at Exito.  I bought 4 bags of milk at the corner store because it’s closed every Sunday and this Monday because it’s a holiday.

I’ve been trading emails with my brother about his upcoming visit in February.

I understand now that the office in San Andres where Teresa would pick up Laura’s birth certificate is closed until January 15^th.  Teresa will call then and see if they can fax us the birth certificate, if not then she will have to go there.

I downloaded Skype to my laptop and tried calling the couple in Austin, Texas but no answer.

This week the Colombian Peso closed at 2,981 per USD.

After lunch I translated the au pair letter to Spanish and returned to the paper store to print it for Teresa to read.  I stopped at the outdoor bakery where I had a café con leche and a pastry with arequipe inside.

Back at the apt, of course hours after I had changed clothes, Teresa asked me to pick up something at the corner store for the meat rolls she was making.  Grudgingly, I changed from my flip flops to my sandals and went back out.

I finished Michael Connelly’s The Fifth Witness: Mickey Haller #4 on my Nook and downloaded his The Black Box: Harry Bosch #16). 

I called the couple in Texas several times using Skype but got no answer.

I finished the Robert Ludlum paperback The Osterman Weekend.  It wasn’t very good; perhaps because it was one of his early novels?

After my usual pre-bedtime rituals I went to bed at 11:15.

T-shirt of the day: I am the next level.