Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at midnight, again at 5;30, finally waking/getting up at 6am.

The street is a little wet so we must have gotten a little rain overnight.

I left the apt at 8am and completed my workout in Smartfit. I forgot to mention last Monday I increased the weights on the Back Extension machine to 80# which I repeated today.

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor for an hour but when I left at 10am it was in a light drizzle. (I should have left 5 minutes earlier.) Of course, when I returned to the apt I took a shower right away.

I just learned that Laura is coming in tomorrow but Vicky isn’t coming in until Sunday. (I warned Laura because Vicky is a foreigner it might take her 2-3 hours to clear Immigration.)

Teresa returned at 12:15 and we took a Didi to Arkadia mall. We had lunch in Crepes & Waffles, Mexican chicken for her and chicken & broccoli bread bowl for me. We also shared a bottle of water for a total of 74,050 pesos ($18) including tip.

I lost another game to ONEIPAMETATO1453 lowering my rating to 1556.

We went up to Auna clinic where Teresa got a doctor’s appointment for tomorrow at noon in Clinica Medellin.

(At one point we’re standing in front of the elevator on the 4^th floor when a down elevator arrives and Teresa starts to get on when we need to go to the 5^th floor. That almost turned into an international incident about who was right.)

We went down to the 3^rd floor where she killed 30 minutes in Falabella searching, unsuccessfully, for inexpensive gym t-shirts.

We went into Decathlon where I (finally) found the Quechua Modular Hiking Pants in my size.  A little expensive at 295mil ($72) but it’s worth it to have a backup pair. (The original pair I bought were only 115,000 pesos.)

We went across the street to Pricesmart and as soon as we stepped inside Teresa spotted this Kitchen Aid Full-Size Dish Drying Rack for 239,900 pesos ($58.50) that she had to have.

We also picked up 3 frozen turkey breasts and a pack of blueberries and who was in front of us in line but Ramon, Gloria’s husband and owner of Antica Pizza. His cart was loaded, including 6 large cans of Hunt’s Tomato Paste, 3 packages of cranberries, pepperoni, and lots of other stuff. He said he does this twice a week. Our bill came to 447,000 pesos ($109).

Downstairs getting in our taxi we saw Ramon packing everything on his motorcycle.

We returned to the apt by taxi for 17,300 pesos.

I watched To Catch a Killer (6.6) on Netflix. I think I saw it in the movie theater some years ago.

I started reading my new Kindle book Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher #12) by Lee Child.

 

EL ARROYO