Today is a day to pack my suitcase, clear up my art supplies, use the last of the milk and sugar for a final cup of tea and enjoy the neighbourhood for the last time. Tomorrow we catch a plane to Bogota and then on Wednesday we are up early for our flight back to Winnipeg.
We wanted to have on last breakfast at our favourite restaurant but when we got there it was closed. There were no chairs or tables on the little patio and when we consulted google we were informed that it was temporarily closed. For how long? Would we not be able to say goodbye to the two young men whom we had got to know there (the ones we named Che Gueva and Ryan Plett) or the woman who cooks there (Tante Marie)? We were very disappointed. We headed to our to other neighbourhood place called Pan y Cafe. It is fine but larger and we are not recognized as beloved regulars there but rather just the bumbling foreigners who can’t communicate very well.
Back at our apartment Rudy worked on computer stuff and I did another self portrait. This one I did quickly to try to get a “feeling” rather than an exact likeness. I liked what I got and it was a good experiment.
For lunch we weren’t that hungry but decided the hole in the wall restaurant that we discovered the first day we arrived in Medellin was a fitting place to visit. Ug, it was closed and we ended up going to the mall to the food court and after some aborted attempts at ordering we managed to get a hotdog. Not only was it too expensive but it really was not that good. Rudy’s fountain drink was some sort of red sugary liquid that I am sure RFK would either tout as a vaccine alternative or as a symptom of big cooperation take over of the nation’s food choices. Either of these options seem a good way to characterize the disgusting drink.
In the afternoon I slept and finished my Isabel Allende book and Rudy caught up on the Severance series. Supper was another cup of cappuccino and a ham and cheese croissant. And then back home for more Severance. This TV watching was periodically interrupted by Gus and James house sale updates and then the final celebration of the sale of the Victor Street house that the girls bought together 11 years ago. It marks the end of an era but excitement for a new place for Gus and James and the boys.