Well, today is Easter for most Christians.
I slept through the night, waking once at 6:30, falling back
asleep and finally waking/getting up at 7:30.
According to the waitress last night they will still have
Ciclovia this morning but I’m not so sure.
I left the apt just before 9am and walked up to Avenida
Poblado. They didn’t have lanes marked off
but I saw a few people walking most of them on the sidewalks. When I got to the Envigado/Medellin border
they had lanes marked with crossing guards and a lot more people walking.
I stopped at Starbucks
where I had my usual café mocca blanco.
Usually they charge me 10,100 pesos but today it was only 9,500. Go figure.
At one point there was a group of 6-7 dogs all checking each other out
peaceably. I saw Britt, the tall gringo
from Florida and I chatted with him briefly.
He was there with his 7-year old son so he was a little
precoccupied. I got a call from Laura –
she thought I was with Teresa. She is
happy in Boca Raton and she will be going to a Colombian restaurant for
lunch. She’s hoping to get Bandeja Paisa
with her favorite chicharron. (Later she
said she got exactly what she wanted but it cost her $13.99 plus a drink, tax,
and tip.) I read a chapter from my Nook
book and then walked back to the apt. On
the way I bought a banana for 500 pesos and saw exercise classes at Santafe
mall and Euro grocery store.
Wow, on the internet I found a Greek Orthodox church in Medellin San Marcos
One funny thing about Teresa is her insistence that everyone
is young. I remember telling her that
Queen Elizabeth was celebrating her 90th birthday and her response
was “she’s so young”. I asked her who
she knows over 90 years old and she had no answer. I challenge her sometimes when she calls her
mother “vieja” which is feminine for “old”.
So, today I got a Happy Easter message from Randy, a friend of Erwin and
Dora. I tried to explain to her who he
was and she said “the old man?” I just
stared at her until she realized what she had said and we both laughed.
At 12:30 Teresa ordered chicken wings from Go Wings. (I saw that I’ve mistakenly called it Zoo
Wings to I went back and fixed that.)
Teresa surprised me by asking if there was a movie we could
go see tonight. I recommended a comedy
(thinking of Shazam!) but she wasn’t interested. I told her there is a drama with an actress
she really likes and she agreed. We’re
going to see Ben is Back (6.8)
starring Julie Roberts at 7:20.
I watched Chapter 12 – Know your enemy.
We left the apt at 6pm and walked to the mall. Inside the entrance we were both surprised
that MT hadn’t already arrived. I told
Teresa that I would go buy 3 tickets and when MT arrived to meet me at the Juan
Valdez café inside Cine Colombia (CC). I
went to the Platinum desk and bought 3 preferred seats at 12,500 pesos
each. Teresa soon arrived and informed
me that MT had an “emergency” and couldn’t make it. We looked at the Platinum menu and we decided
to share 3 empanadas and we each ordered 2 medium sodas. She asked me how much the seats cost and when
I told her she talked to one of the CC employees and then went back to the desk
with the ticket and got credit added back to my Platinum card. In the meantime I looked at the receipt for
our food order. When Teresa returned I
showed her the receipt and that’s when I found out she ordered 3 empanadas AND
10 chicken nuggets. Next I showed her
the bill and the menu and it appeared they charged us for 3 “packages” of 3
empanadas as the bill showed an amount 3 times more than what was on the
menu. It didn’t work when I tried to
explain it to Teresa and later the waitress.
I asked the young lady (I found out her name is Natalie) that speaks
English to come over and I explained the situation. It sounded like they were saying that she
entered the order correctly but finally everyone understood there was a problem
when a server arrived with 9 empanadas.
Natalie had the original order cancelled, took back 6 empanadas and
rebilled my card. Whew! Just before showtime I bought a small bucket
of popcorn. I explained to Teresa that I
tried to set Natalie up with Rory but she already had a boyfriend. Teresa asked me about why not the other cute
girl and I said because she doesn’t speak English.
The movie was good but sad, and ended quite abruptly.
Outside there was a slight mist in the air so we took a taxi
back to the apt. The driver had a
problem changing a 20mil bill so I gave him 4mil and all of the change I had so
he may have been short 500 pesos or so.
10,779 steps today.
Joke of the day
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