Today we have no adventure plans and it feels great to think of a whole day ahead of me to do whatever I want. I have a real slow morning cuddled up with a cup of tea and a pencil crayon drawing I have been working on. Rudy is anxious to go for breakfast and me, I have fallen into my happy space and don’t want to leave.. But luckily he gets busy with something and by the time I have finished the picture we are both hungry and ready to go. There is some disagreement as to where we should go but in the end it is back to our favourite place, for our favourite breakfast, sitting side by side on the very comfy couch on the patio.
Once we are back in our place I settled in on my drawing experiment from yesterday. I had attempted a self portrait. Today I thought I should continue on. Trying to hone my observation skills, I approached the task from a different angle. It was loads better than yesterday but probably the best part was getting a critique from Rudy. He has a real talent for observing shape and line, and a great spacial awareness that results in photo-like reproduction of images. As a result of these keen observation skills, he was able to point out inconsistencies in my drawings that I had not seen. I am definitely going to keep on practicing drawing portraits. It is a good exercise and my thought is that I can only get better. 🙂
After all that strenuous work I packed up my kindle and headed to Parques del Rio to read. I settled in the corner of a concrete bench and sunk into my Isabel Allende, A Long Petal of the Sea. I totally lost myself and before I knew it, it was time for supper. On my way home I ran into some live music further along the river walk and texted Rudy to join me. From there we searched out an eating place on the other side of the river and had Lemonade con Coco and Lemonade con Maracuya. We also shared a Colombian version of poutine (French fries, aioli, some kind of red sauce, cayenne pepper, mozzarella cheese, and shredded pork). Mmm… delicious.
As per usual, walking home through the cool, dark streets in our neighbourhood is magical.