Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once about 3am, finally waking/getting up at 6:30. A loud dump truck pulled into the Exito next door at 6:40.
Yesterday, Teresa changed our
dentist appointments to start at 4pm instead of 2:30.
Teresa left early (7am?) to get
an appointment at eps. I understood she would be back a little after 8 to make
my breakfast.
My plan for today was to walk to
the mall, pay some bills, and have coffee in Todo Fresa. She needs a new
blender so we’d meet there later to go to Home Center.
She texted me at 7:39, I read at
8:25, “there are a lot of people here so let’s do breakfast at Los Porteños”.
I asked, “when?”, dressed and walked to Los Porteños arriving one minute
before her. We each had a croissant breakfast and lattes that cost a tad over
50mil ($10). She bought a small bag of ripe strawberries from a street vendor for
15mil. Teresa wanted me to drop the bag off at the apt while she returned to
Parque Envigado for something. Then she remembered she had to take a pill so
she took them to the apt.
I walked to the mall, printed our
Santa Marta hotel reservation, paid for the apt, gym, and my health insurance
and called Teresa to see if she was coming soon or I should go for coffee. She
said go for coffee and we’ll meet up later.
I had a latte at Todo Fresa
until about 11:15 then went into Home Center where I shot this quick
video of about 27 liquidoras.
I walked back to the apt. Still
leaking.
At 11:55 Teresa exclaimed, “it’s noon and I haven’t prepared
lunch, I thought it was only 11am”. 😊
Workers next door are unloading more of the narrow concrete
blocks.
Teresa told me she has a friend who opened a posteria (cake
store) in Alcala. Now she’s looking for the address.
I heard that, supposedly, a time traveler from the future
said Brazil will win the World Cup over France. We’ll see about that.
2:45 and we heard thunder in the area.
2:55 Teresa tells me to get dressed. At 3:05 I ask her if I
can order a Didi and she says, “wait”.
She finally gave me the go ahead just before 3:30. We were
in a Didi five minutes later. I think Sara, our young driver, was a new driver
as she drove quite slowly and carefully but we still arrived at Torre Medica in
time for our 4pm appointment. Dr. Rendon arrived ten minutes late; said he was
watching a soccer match. We both got our teeth cleaned for 200mil ($40) each.
Dr. Rendon is taking his family on a 9-day Caribbean cruise over the holidays.
I thought I heard Carolina, his wife, speaking English with a patient but he
left pretty quickly. After, she confessed she liked hearing his Scottish
accent.
We had something to eat in Crepes & Waffles:
chicken with broccoli crepes for her and a waffle with frutos de bosque (fruits
of the forest) and a scoop of vanilla ice cream for me for 46,500 pesos ($10).
Teresa checked out clothes in Zara and H&M
but said everything was either ugly or for winter. We took number 224 from the
automated dispenser for a taxi then went upstairs to the Japanese store where
Teresa bought 3 eyebrow pencils. (At least I think that’s what they were.) Back
downstairs they were calling number 187 so we had a while to wait. Luckily, not
everyone stayed to catch a taxi so the total wait was only about 45 minutes.
Our driver almost made me seasick as he used the accelerator as a brake; back
and forth, back and forth. At least traffic wasn’t so bad returning but then
again it was like 7:45 at night.
Today I got in 6,376 steps.
I went to bed at 10pm, hearing
lots of firecrackers.
Fun pix
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