Sunday, May 18, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up twice during the night, finally waking/getting up at 6:30am.

Jack W: Sorry to hear about your prostate cancer diagnosis. Just keep monitoring it and when the time comes have your prostatectomy. It isn’t the end of the world.

Our plan for today is to go to Tutucán, a theme park in Rionegro. We left at 9:45 and took a Didi to Terminal Sur for 14,000 pesos. Downstairs at the window we learned the park is closed to the public today for some special event so we immediately decided to return to El Retiro. Tickets were 10,200 pesos each and we only had a short wait for our bus to arrive.

We arrived in El Retiro an hour and a half later in a very light drizzle. Teresa wanted to try another restaurant for lunch so she checked out a few across from the park. She didn’t find anything she liked so we ended back at Lomo Fino again. There was no line today so we immediately got seated. She had the salmon and I tried their ribs.

I wasn’t impressed with their ribs. The total check came to 119,000 pesos ($28.50). Teresa wanted to walk around a bit before we had coffee so we did. Nothing really impressive. We did find one store that sold bags of coffee for 54mil so that’s something to keep in mind. We were in a store that sold clothes and costume jewelry when the lights went off but came back on a minute later. We were in their cultural center (not much to see but some old typewriters and a Singer sewing machine) the power went out again. Outside Teresa asked where the café was and I said up the hill 1 block, turn right, then left and it’s up another block. She commented how I know El Retiro better then she does. No, I just have a sense of direction and I’ve kept track of where were are relevant to our goal which is El Retiro Café. We walked there and easily got a table inside but they couldn’t make coffee because they only had emergency power. We hung around a few minutes then left. We walked down to the bus station and soon were on a bus back to Medellin. We got off at Exposiciones Station and caught a taxi back to Envigado. On the way we drove through a downpour but it stopped by the time we arrived at our complex for 20,000 pesos.

It was just before 6pm and I was able to see 60 Minutes (once the preceding golf tournament ended) followed by a special edition of 60 Minutes.

I finished reading James Patterson’s Jack & Jill on my Kindle.

 

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