I slept in this morning. When I finally crawled out of bed, Naomi was already deep in her book. I made myself a coffee with the new coffee maker we got yesterday (after we broke the carafe and had to get our host to go buy a new one for us). We each had a yogurt from the fridge and called it breakfast. Then we were back on our devices, getting caught up with what’s happening in the world. Naomi got out her art materials and did some more sketching and painting. I watched some of my morning shows on YouTube until somehow I stumbled onto a Del Barber record that I didn’t know about. I downloaded it and we listened to Del Barber and felt a bit sad that we wouldn’t be in Winnipeg at the end of the month for his farewell “Last Kick at the Can” concert.
Naomi offered to go find a bakery and bring back some croissants for lunch. She came back with some really cool bread and we made sandwiches and drank our last two beers. After lunch Naomi and I played a game of battleship, one of the games on the shelf beside the kitchen. Then Naomi went back to the rooftop to read and take a few dips in the pool. I looked at Airbnb options for the town of Minca, about a 40-minute taxi ride from here. Our stay in Santa Marta ends on Thursday, so we’ve booked a ‘cottage’ in Minca for a week after we’re done here.
Naomi was hoping to take a few nice ‘sunset on the ocean’ photos, but the sun had just set when she thought of it. Tomorrow, I guess. It was 6:30 and that’s when I remembered the Super Bowl is on tonight — starting at 7:00pm. We hurried out the door and off into the street, looking for a place to have a quick supper before the game started. Well, actually, I said I didn’t care about the Super Bowl — neither of the teams was ‘my’ team. I knew I wouldn’t cheer for the Chiefs just because I usually cheer for the underdogs — and I thought the Eagles would probably lose. We did a little walk around on the ‘walking’ street a block south of our place. Lots of people out on Sunday night. Lots of nice restaurants to choose from. We wandered around a bit, sort of looking for a place that was showing the football game on TV, but most TVs were showing a soccer game. We finally sat down at a table at the Mexican restaurant we’d eaten at a couple of days ago. Ordered the same again. Not bad. Margaritas and fish tacos.
After supper we went for one more walk up and down the strip and voila! the corner bar WAS showing the NFL game, already in progress. And what’s this? The Eagles are up 7-0! We grabbed a table near the TV, order a couple of beers, and watched those Eagles rack up another 10 points before halftime, while the Chiefs floundered. We paid for our drinks and left. The mind-numbing dance music was much too loud, and I thought I could probably find the game online and finish watching it at home.
And I did. And man!, the second half was just more of the same — LOTS to cheer about if you were rooting for the Eagles. Final score: Eagles 40, Chiefs 22. Never even close!
And that’s how the day ended. Well, except that Naomi called it a night and reminded me that I had said I would write the blog post. So here I am, still sitting here with my computer, and it’s already tomorrow! Time to shut’er down and let that loud disco music from down below our 5th floor window ‘rock’ me to sleep.