Saturday, November 9, 2024

Friday, November 8, 2024

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, finally waking getting up at 6:15.

Just after 7am it started raining thwarting my eagerness to go to the gym. I’m waiting my usual 1 hour after breakfast so as long as it ends by 8am I’m going to wait it out.

Finally, the rain stopped and I left at 9:15 finishing my workout just after 10am. I had a latte in Ganso y Castor for an hour. Btw, I replaced peanuts in all the previous locations.

I completed another couple courses in Noel Studer’s Next Level Training. Almost finished with the first go around.

Teresa tells me she wants to go to Zara in El Tesoro this afternoon.

Do they have fire drills here? Just after 2pm I heard what sounded like a tornado alarm across the street and a few people started leaving the building and I saw what looked like crossing guards with a megaphone.

I lost a game to Troyclough with the Black pieces in 59 moves lowering my rating to 1605.

When I scheduled another game against him, Chess.com suggested I play someone closer to my rating then it matched me with a player named yoDerek88 with a rating of 1081. 😊

We left the apt at 2:30 and took a Didi to El Tesoro mall. While Teresa checked out the remodeled Zara I went to Valentina’s where I had a latte and slowly worked my way through a chocolate filled Crookie (Croissant cookie combination).

Five weeks from today is Teresa’s US embassy interview, so I texted Laura asking if she can get more information, like:

·     Is there a special time we’re supposed be there?

·     Is there a special entrance we’re supposed to use?

·     What should she bring with her to the interview?

Teresa returned about 90 minutes later and proclaimed that everything in Zara was depressingly ugly (black, brown and gray). She ordered a latte and a chicken sandwich that we shared.

We left about 5:15 and there was a 30-minute wait for a taxi back to our apt. It didn’t help that it was raining.

I checked Google Flights and it looks like Avianca has almost hourly flights to Bogota so I asked Teresa what time she would want to fly out of Medellin. Since we probably won’t be able to check-in to the hotel until 3pm, we agreed on 1-3pm.

The rest of the evening I watched the news on Medellin TV.

 

EL ARROYO



1 comment:

  1. Terry, the evacuation could have been a fire drill. When I worked in large office buildings they had at least one fire drill annually. The last large and very plush building I worked in was in L.A. It had two per year. Within six weeks of the first we had to evacuate again. There were more firetrucks that time. About 30 minutes after the alarm I decided to move my auto out of the underground garage. My co-workers chose to not move theirs. As I approached the exit ramp an alarm started and the gate started to descend at a moderate speed. I was able to leave without incident. So when they announced we could go home or wait for the 'all clear" I along with public bus users could go home. It was at that point I told my co-workers the news about the gate closing. Needless to say, they were not happy. Except for my favorite that live near me. The "all clear" was not given until around 10 PM.
    Jack W

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