Sunday, December 28, 2025

Last night I took my Diphenhydramine and Zopiclona tablets and went to bed at 10pm. I quickly fell asleep, got up once at 4am, heard fireworks at 4:30, finally waking/getting up at 6:45.

Teresa was just reminiscing about the breakfasts we had in Chicago: breakfast sausage, hash browns, endless cups of coffee with cream. 😊

We left the apt at 10:25 and took a Didi to Exposiciones station for 14,400 pesos. Teresa saw an El Retiro bus and asked me to claim a couple seats while she went in Tienda D1 (for what I didn’t know). At the head of the line was a van and I was about to get in when the driver said they had only one seat. I went instead into the first large bus and took a seat near the back on the street side. A few minutes later I saw Teresa walk past the bus I was on and head for the next bus. I called out to her but she didn’t hear me. (She never likes it when I shout her name.) I got off my bus and got on hers and it was more crowded but we found separate seats near the back. I think Teresa thought, or knew, that the bus I was on wasn’t going to El Retiro. In hindsight she might have been correct. By 10:45 our bus left and outside El Retiro the driver took a back way into town. I noticed a number of horse trailers with horses standing around.

We walked up to the park and made a left because Teresa wanted to show me a restaurant she found.

It turned out it didn’t open until noon so we took seats under a canopy to wait. I pointed out eight minutes after noon that it must be open but I think Teresa wasn’t interested because they had no customers. She led me to Lomo Fino where we had our choice of tables. I had their solomito (again had to send it back to be cooked a little more) and Teresa had the chicken breast and we shared a bottle of water. The total check came to 116,000 pesos ($31).

We walked down to Café El Retiro where again we had our choice of tables. (Seemed like we were always ahead of schedule.) We left about 3pm because there was some type of a parade going down the main street. It soon ended and we walked down another main street toward the bus station. They had some side streets closed off and Teresa and I saw this on the back of someone’s t-shirt.

Teresa talked to him and it learned the horse parade wouldn’t start until 4:30 or 5pm. I checked my watch it was 3:20 and Teresa made a good decision for us to get out of Dodge as there would be lines for buses if we waited.

As the bus drove out of town I took these photos of some of the horses waiting for the parade.

I decided why not make some video and here’s what we saw as we left El Retiro.

HORSE VIDEOS

THE VIDEO IS 4:08 MINUTES LONG (THERE MUST HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF HORSES WITH THEIR RIDERS) AND I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TRIM IT.

We got off at Exposiciones station and took the metro back to Envigado and a taxi back to our apt.

I gave up watching Turn: Washington’s Spies.

The Bears game finally started and it started with a bang, the first play of the game the Bears intercepted Brock Purdy for a touchdown. After that it was a shootout with the teams trading touchdowns. A broadcaster said this was the first regular season game where the score was tied at 7, 14, 21, 28, and 35. In the end the Bears got a field goal instead of a touchdown and lost 42-38.

They announced the last games of the season and I now know the Bears play their last game against the Detroit Lions at home at 4:25pm. I’m glad it’s not another 8:20 start; those are a drag.

I skipped my pre-sleep routine and just went to bed at midnight and quickly fell asleep.

 

According to my step counter I walked 2,650 steps today; pretty typical for a Sunday.

 

FUNNY