Saturday, December 4, 2021

Recovery Day #162!

Today is my daughter’s birthday. Happy Birthday Jeannie!

Last night I went to bed at 11pm and fell asleep quickly, made a trip to the bathroom at 5am. I was awakened at 6:30 by Teresa talking to Laura. I understood Laura has cancelled the trip to Guatape, something about “It’s too cold in the morning”. I woke up at 8:15, did my Kegel exercises and got up.

I left the apt at 11am and walked to the mall where I made an ATM withdrawal then bought a few things in Exito before returning to the apt by taxi.

The plan now is to take a trip to Parque Arvi.

Teresa and I left the apt at 1pm. We waited 10 minutes for a metro bus but when it arrived it was cattle car packed. Instead, we walked down the hill and quickly caught a taxi to the metro. Our metro car was full but by a couple stops later it was cattle car full. It seemed Lenny & Laura were 5-10 minutes ahead of us and they were waiting for us when we arrived at Caribe station. It was a short wait for a cable car and then it was a 40-minute trip (with one transfer) to the park.

This is a view of Medellin from our cable car:

The ladies had a snack then we hired a private car for 10mil to take us to the Piedras Blancas Hotel where we easily got a shaded spot on their patio. Teresa ordered trout, Laura filet mignon, Lenny pepper steak and I the baby beef. 

This is a single page from their menu:

All the steaks arrived cold and were sent back and mine went from medium well to well done. Still tasty but a little chewy. Service left something to be desired, for example it took an hour to get our food and we had to ask them to bring us napkins. The total check came to 140mil including tip.

We paid and took the free bus back to the park entrance. The ladies had another little snack then we took the cable car back to Caribe station. They got off the metro at Poblado and we continued on to Ayurá station. We couldn’t find a taxi, Teresa suggested we walk but I didn’t want to do that in the dark so we took the Pavezgo bus and walked the last block back to our apt.

 

The New York Times’ 7-day average of new daily infections and deaths has the US with 94,643 ð 104,264 ð 108,462 new cases and 1,021 ð 1,121 ð 1,179 new deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of yesterday, Colombia has a total of 2,262 ð 2,299 ð 2,609 new cases with 57 ð 42 ð 48 new deaths. Medellin has 320 ð 259 ð 422 new cases from December 3^rd to 4^th. Envigado has 12 ð 20 ð 9 new cases from December 3^rd to 4^th.

 

T-shirt of the day

Dibs.