Friday, November 29, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at 4:45am, finally waking/getting up at 6:15.

Today is Black Friday, here as well as the US.

Teresa said it rained overnight. I didn’t hear anything but the street’s wet so I guess she’s right.

I bought a birthday gift for my daughter and set up a Nord VPN account for me for 2 years and 3 months for $108.92.

Teresa wants me to return to the apt right after gym so we can go to El Tesoro and she can cruise the Black Friday sales.

I completed my workout in Smartfit noting a couple of machines that I’ll increase the weight on next Monday.

I returned directly to the apt but Teresa wasn’t ready to leave.

I took a nap from approximately 10:30 to 11am.

We left the apt at 11:15 and took a Didi to El Tesoro mall. It wasn’t too busy when we arrived but it got busier throughout the afternoon.

They had this cherry blossom tunnel and I took these photos of Teresa:

She did some shopping and found a reversible (beige and white) belt in Bon Bonite for 95,900 pesos ($22) and a vest in Ana Cristina Restrepo for 233,800 pesos ($53). Medipiel had a sale so I bought another bottle of shower soap and two bottles of my skin cream. Teresa bought a few soaps and creams also and the total came to 679,950 pesos ($154).

We had lunch in a little Korean place called Bao. This is their menu:

Teresa had the chicken and I had the pork and they were both like arepa sandwiches that were very tasty but very messy to eat.

We had lattes and shared a slice of yogurt bundt cake at one of the tables outside Valentina’s café.

There was some type of sale at this store behind us called ATENEA because there was this line of teenage girls waiting to get in.

Teresa informed me that Kelly was coming to give her a massage about 5 or 5:30. It was just after 4pm so I recommended we start heading back to the apt. I made a last (or so I thought) trip to the restroom but when I returned to our table there was a young lady named Catalina sitting in my spot, with a French bulldog under the table, talking to Teresa. (Teresa told me later she’s a 40-year-old (doesn’t look it) odontologist that’s married to a 25-year-old man and she wants 4-5 kids (present count is 0)). After about 30 minutes or so another young lady arrived and took a seat next to her. Just before we left Catalina started speaking to me in very good English. She said she spent 7 years in England but I said her accent sounds more American and she confessed to visiting the US, specifically Miami and New York. She said she owns 70 acres of land in Guatape and she’s working on putting up apartment buildings.

We left them about 5pm and went to the taxi stand and it was packed (likely a 45-60 minute wait) so I made another trip to the restroom. When I returned, I stood near the taxi guy trying to hear what number they were on but no taxis were arriving. I took the last seat in the waiting area and ordered a Didi and was shocked that one was already waiting for us. We just had to move to a different exit and we were soon in the car. It took about 45 minutes for us to return to the apt for 22,100 pesos but we saved a lot of waiting time.

I gave up reading Michael Mann’s Michael Mann’s Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past can Help us Survive the Climate Crisis when it got too technical.

I started reading Lee Child’s In Too Deep (Jack Reacher #19).

 

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