Flooded Apartment

Well, we flooded our apartment today. Bill tried to wash a load of laundry and the entire tub of water leaked all over the floor. It flooded half of the apartment with about a quarter inch of water. It took us about an hour to get all the water mopped up. It was an experience!

Otherwise though, we had a good day. This morning, we walked along the beach down to the old, historic, colonial part of the city. It was scorching hot, but the beach, which is gray, volcanic sand, sparkles. It’s very pretty. Bill thinks that an erosion of oyster shells created natural glitter. The old part of the city is very pretty. We found our school and some neat restaurants and Bill bought a “Juan Valdez”- style Colombian hat. It’s in the pictures below. We walked along the wall that fortified the old city. We were melting by the time we finished, so we got a taxi home! We bought roasted chicken form the grocery store for lunch and some delicious mangos. This afternoon, we swam in the ocean. Bill doesn’t think he’s ever been swimming in an ocean, and he had fun body surfing on the waves. We aren’t in a touristy part of the city at all and there aren’t many English speakers here in general. There were lots of Colombian families on the beach with adorable little kids. We think it’s mostly people who live in the neighborhood and walk over to the beach. There are probably some Colombian tourists as well. It’s much nicer that way than being surrounded by drunk tourists.

We just got back from dinner at an Irish pub. We took a taxi back to the old city and found a pub with hamburgers, coconut chicken and good music. It wasn’t very Colombian but it was a fun evening. We got a taxi back when it started to rain.

We go take our Spanish placement test at 8am tomorrow morning. I hope classes go well and we have good teachers. It will be 3 hours of Spanish every afternoon! I think Bill is working on his update, so I should be able to post that soon. Pictures are below.