Friday, June 3, 2022

Last night I went to bed at 9:30pm, fell asleep quickly, got up at 11:30 (it was raining), 2am (Teresa’s snoring), 5am (still raining), finally waking/getting up at 7:30.

It’s still raining slightly so Teresa informed me she’s cancelling her trip to the Mayorca gym.

What a dreary looking day. The Weather Channel (TWC) predicts “storms likely to end around 11:30am. More storms possible later.” I was going to go to the mall to take care of a few things but now I think I’ll have coffee locally and leave early (4pm?) this afternoon to buy the movie tickets and take care of the other things after.

I had coffee in Los Porteños for about an hour.

I left at 3:45 and took a Didi car to the mall. I had no problem buying 2 tickets to Jurassic World Dominion for 14,100 each ($4). I went back downstairs where I printed some chess pages, picked up a copy of Gente newspaper and looked for my mint chocolate chip ice cream. They had some Häagen Dazs but not that flavor.

Back upstairs I went through the newspaper while waiting for Teresa. She called me just after 5pm and asked me to order a Didi ride for her. I then ran into Jose Avendano, my previous gym buddy. He now has a neat beard and different hairstyle and was going to see the same movie.

I figured Teresa would be arriving any minute so I packed up my things and was switching to a chair on the other side of the table so I could see her come in better when I saw her walking in with Jose. I told him, “I didn’t know Cine Colombia had concierge service.”

I made a quick trip to the restroom then we got in a short line at concessions. We bought a combo which included 2 drinks, a hot dog, medium popcorn, and a Kit-Kat bar for 33,100 pesos ($8.75). Everything fit on a tray, Teresa filled our cups, and I carried the tray into the theater. It wasn’t easy to prepare and eat our things while the lights were down.

Coming attractions included Tom Hanks starring in Elvis (June 24^th release) and Brad Pitt starring in Bullet Train (August 5^th release) so it looks like we’ve got a few good upcoming movies to look forward to.

Jurassic World Dominion was good but I thought Top Gun was better. We ran into Jose again as we were leaving the theater.

Teresa was hungry so we went up to Crepes & Waffles but there was a long line to get in. Outside we quickly caught a taxi to Antica Pizza where there was another line. A young couple near the entrance had a friendly pit bull which I petted but Teresa is scared of big dogs like that. When they had space for us inside I stood between the dog and the entrance so she would feel safer going in.

I wasn’t particularly hungry but I had my usual vegetable pizza with a glass of water.

Teresa told me she heard weather here is going to be colder than usual for June, July, and August.

We quickly caught a taxi at our usual spot a block down the hill. On the way we passed a restaurant next to the La Vaquita grocery store that sells hotdogs for 2,000 pesos (53 cents).

I finished John Grisham’s The Chamber on my Nook.

 

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