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This morning we went on a city tour with our taxi driver from yesterday morning, Aley. He is a super friendly guy and did a good job with the tour. It was long so he needs to work a stop for street food into his tours. He said that he has only been doing the tours for a couple months. He spoke only Spanish, but he would repeat or talk slower when needed. Emily got a lot of practice with him. I was able to get the gist of some of it. We’ll post a picture of his information in case anyone is going to be in Cartagena. I used the whatsapp to text him. It worked well and was easy to just pick the country and put in his number. We have kept it and are thinking of a trip he offers to a national park about 40 minutes away later in the week one morning. 

Cartagena is a large city with many different neighborhoods or barrios. I like the people and their attitude towards each other. The people here love being Colombian and even more so from Cartagena.
Aley took us through several different barrios on our way to some of the sights and told us a little about them. 
The sights were interesting and Aley was knowledgeable about them. Aley also takes pictures so we did not need to use our new selfie stick. 
La Popa and the Castillo de San Felipe provided us with some excellent views of Cartagena. 
After visiting Boca Grande (big mouth) I find that I like the neighborhood we are in better. The beaches there were packed and there were people selling stuff. Our beach even when busy and with the lady that offers massages to Emily, is better. 
I like that we have knocked some sightseeing off our list. For as long as we have been here it didn’t seem like we had seen much, mostly busy with classes. Most likely our trip tomorrow will be icing on the cake though! 

Possibly tonight we may go to a trendy area of town and check out some clubs. Hopefully Emily paid attention to my Spanish CDs on how to ask someone to dance if she is wanting to do more Salsa! 

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We opted to do the trendy town another evening, she probably wants to work on her moves and asking someone who can dance to join her. 

It’s Saturday and a holiday here so it will probably be nuts there. Another evening may be more our speed and we have to get up early tomorrow for our snorkeling excursion. 

We went in to the old city tonight to walk around some and get dinner. We stopped and had Italian at a place Emily just pointed at and asked “how about here?” It was very good and had been a place a famous writer enjoyed that Emily was familiar with. She probably posted who in her blog. It turned out well. I have not had any bad food here yet. The first place was good but everyplace else has been better for what I have ordered. 

We had another really fun day! A few days ago, we met a very friendly taxi driver. He only speaks Spanish, but he gave us his number and told us he did city tours. He was willing to be patient with my imperfect Spanish so we took him up on his offer. He picked us up at 9:30 this morning, we had no idea where the tour went, how long it would take or how much it cost, but you only live once! It turned out to be a really good tour! The tour lasted about 5 hours, and it was a pretty intensive 5 hours of Spanish for us both. I started out translating for Bill, but after 5 hours, he was picking up a lot more on his own. We saw a monastery on the highest point in the city, a really interesting fort built by the Spanish with tunnels that connected the fort to old, historic part of the city. Most of the city is built on what used to be water. We saw several different neighborhoods, rich, poor, and middle class and we visited an emerald workshop. Colombia produces some of the best emeralds in the world and they are very proud of them. Our driver just started doing tours a few months ago, but he did a great job and we really liked him. He also does tours out to a nature reserve so if he’s free this week, we are going to do that one morning. I hope we get to do that. There’s also a place where you can go soak in volcanic mud, but I don’t think we will be able to fit that in.

We got home around 2pm, fixed a quick bite to eat then rested for a while. I got a little burnt during our tour in the scorching sun, and we must have lost pounds of water sweating. Bill thinks I slept for a while because he came to check on me and I didn’t respond and didn’t realize it was already 5:30 pm when I finally got up. We both really enjoyed the trip though and we recommend the cab driver!

We walked down to the old city for supper and found a really neat Italian restaurant. It had interesting artwork on the walls. The paintings were done by a friend of the owner. The owner also proudly told us that Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of Latin America’s most famous authors, had visited the restaurant. Marquez is Colombian and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The owner had pictures of Marquez on the wall. I got a spinach pie and Bill had lasagna. The food was good and we got Gelato for dessert. It was a fun evening.

I’ve signed us up for a day of snorkeling tomorrow. We are really looking forward to that! I signed up and paid online so I hope that all works out. We have to be in the old city at 8am for an hour boat ride to Isla Rosario where there is good snorkeling. Everything got good Trip Advisor reviews.

I wanted to go to a dance club tonight in a section of the city called Getsemani. We toured through it today in the taxi and it’s a neat place. It’s also a huge party spot. Today is Saturday and a national holiday so we decided to wait on the trip there until one evening this week when it should still be fun but probably not as wild! We are both past the wild nightlife stage!

Pictures of our city tour are posted below! Bill will have an update soon. My first picture is of a drink Bill and I have been drinking all week. It’s lemonade with “coconut crystals.” The “coconut crystals” are really small, chewy, marshmallow- like pieces that float around in the lemonade. It’s very interesting. It’s good, but it takes time to get used to.

It’s Saturday! I was too exhausted to do an update last night and I’m just getting around to posting Bill’s update this morning. He did a really good job, so I’m just going to add a couple things to his post.

After our dance class, I suggested to Bill that we could potentially be great at salsa with some practice. His response was “we might be great at chips and salsa!” I suggested that we go to either a salsa dance club or an Afro-Caribbean dance club tonight and he wanted to know what I’ve been smoking. I think I have him talked into going to take a look at the dance club! It was a really good week and we are looking forward to a fun weekend too.

Okay, the rest is Bill’s post! I’ll add pictures below.

I should probably clarify my statement about translating what Karen says. She speaks to me mostly in Spanish unless I admit I have no clue what she was saying to me. It seems you can answer with “si” a lot and she is okay that. I really don’t know what she said because she moves on. But sometimes she says things that she knows I don’t understand and repeats herself slower and I will hear a word that I know and I will translate it. Other times she will write a word I know and I will automatically blurt out the translation. When I do that she will tell me in Spanish not to translate, I’m learning “no traduciendo” very well!! It’s probably good I’m not in a class with other students. 

This morning I looked through our posts and seen that I should be reading my posts before I send them to Emily to be posted. A few missed letters and words. 

Every morning down on the beach there is a guy that sets up little tents. They are just four posts and some tent stakes that we believe people rent for shade. 
There is also a guy that must sell fresh fish he caught. He sets up a thing on the wall that separates the beach from the sidewalk and cleans them tossing the guts to the birds. He usually has several lined up by the bus stop. 

It’s Friday so that means we’ve made it a full week! It seems like it has gone by fast and that we’ve not done a lot besides school. But we have walked around the old city and seen some of the local culture. We’ve been getting in some swimming which has been nice. Even with three hours of class in the afternoon we have been making good use of our free time. It feels like a vacation and not school. Even my time in class is fun. I’m not good, but I am getting better. 

Today we decided to go into the old city early and go to a couple museums, turns out the two we were planning on today is actually one museum. Palacio de la Inquisition/ History Museum. It was interesting, they had a window that people used as a drive up for carriages, narc on your neighbor drop off. The carriage would pull up and a note would get tossed in the window. 

Before the museum, we stopped off at Juan Valdez coffee shop, I don’t normally drink coffee, I am in Colombia though and felt I could give it a go. If there is a place to drink coffee it would be here where it feels like 100 degrees most the time! I had a cafe tinto, which here it’s just tinto. It tastes like coffee in the US. 
After we walked up on the wall for the view and bought a selfie stick. They are dorky but we won’t have to take close up of us, we can get some background in our shots of us!! 

After the museum we did a little shopping in the old city for souvenirs. We both were able to find some things. 

We had lunch at a nice place. We used the method “look she has restaurant picture menus” and followed the woman with the picture menus. It was nice place, the food was good, I had a rabbit based concoction that tasted familiar, kind of a comfort food. Emily’s shark meal was good as well, a bit more exciting to taste. 
We met a couple from New York, she was born in Russia and he was from Nicaragua by birth. They were very friendly and we got to try some Spanish, Emily more so than me with the man. 

Class today was more numbers for me. I did a little better with not trying to translate. Karen only had to say not to a couple times. It’s nice to be done with numbers. 

After class we came back to the apartment and swam for a spell in the pool. There was a mother and two kids leaving as we got there and there was a man sitting by the pool drinking Budweiser beer listening to music, a mix of Spanish, 80s and 90s American. He must’ve lived either on the same floor as the pool or one floor up or down. He would get a few beers at a time and bring them out to where he was sitting, he did not take the elevator as he was not gone that long. We have three elevators serving 18 floors, the first two maybe three are parking, the lobby and store fronts. There are 8 apartments for the rest. The elevators are slooow!! 

For dinner tonight we opted to go back to the restaurant we went to last night. I got a photo. I had fried chicken that was very good. 

Emily booked us a snorkeling trip on Sunday that should be fantastic!! We also got the number for our taxi driver from this morning who was very friendly and is willing to be our driver / guide Tomorrow morning for a while and show us some hot spots and must see things about his city. He was very enthusiastic about Cartagena.

We are now entrenched in Colombia, day 6, 4 days of attempted brainwashing by Karen the polyglot. She has started thinking of ways to punish me when I translate what she says. Tomorrow may involve corporal punishment!! I suppose it’s fair as she has had to endure 12ish hours with me. I may be improving on some of my Spanish. I also have been getting some geography and math refreshers during my sessions. 

Emily and I have not done well talking in Spanish together as of yet. More often than not I think of the Spanish after I already said something in English. 

This morning we spent some time in the ocean. I did some isometric exercises in the water. They do not have any gyms close to where we are, they seem to be in the rich neighborhood. We do get a lot of walking in either to or from class, sometimes both.

After class this evening we took the Salsa class offered at the school. My talents lie more in my Elvis pelvis moves and should shimmy where my feet are more or less on the floor! Emily and I danced a little and then I started to dance with a gal that then tried to teach me how to dance. She was a good dancer when she danced with the instructor. Emily thinks we are capable of becoming great Salsa dancers. I think we will maybe have a chance at the dance where I just stand there and spin her! 

On our way back to the apartment tonight I took a picture of part of one of the buildings along our route to and from school. They are working on this building when we go to class. The building look like it’s one of the better buildings but they don’t seem to concerned about having things plumb. Most the buildings here are the same type of block covered with concrete as we saw in Peru. Here though they are painted and have roofs on them since it does rain here. 

For dinner we stopped at one of the neighborhood places. They seem to sell mostly chicken, roasted and broasted. Our dinners were very good and reasonably priced. It was dark when we left so I will have to get a photo tomorrow. 

I would not want to work on a ambulance here. We have seem a few and they are usually stuck in traffic. It has to be very stressful for everyone in the ambulance and those waiting for one to arrive. The traffic here is extremely congested at times. During the rush hours it reminds me of Lima. The main drag that goes by our apartment building is like any major city down by the wall all the time and then only like that during the rush hours by us. 

I think the people here are generally nice. Most of the people who we meet on the elevator or the street will offer a greeting. There doesn’t seem to be much of a delineation between the various shades of people. It seems like every group is mixed, I can’t think of any I have seen short of tourists that are all the same. 

We had a really fun day! This morning we swam for a while at the beach. Then we spent some time studying Spanish, and Bill fixed ham sandwiches for lunch. Classes went really well. I’m learning a lot, and I love my class! I wish I had more time to spend in Spanish-speaking countries.

After class, we did a salsa class offered by the school. It was a blast! We had a fun teacher who’s Afro-Colombian who could really move! There were several students who did salsa with us. Most of us had little or no experience with salsa, so we were mostly equally bad, but everybody had fun. My new French friend, Dominique, came. She can’t do the steps at all, and doesn’t seem that interested in learning them, but she loves to dance and just did her own thing the whole time! She swiveled and shook all over the dance floor. It was hilarious! She’s living life to the fullest! Bill and I are not going to make Dancing with the Stars any time soon, but I think we have potential! He thinks he might be better at waltz. I love salsa! I would love to find a class in Cedar Falls, but I don’t think there is one.

Bill traded me in for a beautiful African woman during our dance session. See picture below. (That’s not exactly what happened, but he has been listening to a Spanish CD that teaches you how to ask women to dance.) I have video of them dancing together, but my blog doesn’t allow videos. Bummer! Maybe we can get more pictures next week.

Yesterday, I had lunch with Dominique, the French woman. I spent all morning listening to the French news and reading in French so I’d be prepared for an hour long conversation in French. It’s really hard for me to switch back and forth between French and Spanish. I did relatively well with the conversation. She seemed impressed but that’s probably because I had tried and failed to speak to her in French the day before. It was a good conversation. She lived in the US for a couple of years and in Africa for a few years. She’s been divorced for years and decided to travel around by herself in Colombia for a month. She worked as a secretary in some big international businesses before she retired. One of them was owned by Ross Perot.

I met a woman from California today. She’s also a student at the school. She decided she didn’t like her job, had some unspecified family drama that she didn’t want to deal with, so she quit her job and is spending the next year touring around South America. She’s doing 6 weeks at the language school here then she’s headed to Peru and Argentina. Maybe some other places too. She’s the second woman I’ve met at a language school with that kind of story. I wish I was that kind of person, but I mostly like my job so I guess it’s not quite the same.

After salsa, Bill and I stopped at this little open-air restaurant around the corner. It’s a local place. We got good food, super cheap! There was a TV with a telenovela playing behind us.

Our washing machine was leaking a bit when we got home. Bill is washing a load of towels now and put me on washing machine patrol while he’s in the shower. He gave me very specific instructions about how to start mopping up the floor if it floods!

That’s all I have for tonight! Pictures are below. Bill will have an update soon.

This is Bill’s post from yesterday. I spent all morning studying French in preparation for my conversation with Dominique then had three hours of Spanish. I was wiped out by the end of the day! I’ll have a post tonight or tomorrow morning after our salsa lessons.

We made a run to the market this morning after breakfast to get a few things. It’s very nice to have the store so close. The bigger Walmart type store is close to the school so it is easy to stop at before coming back to our apartment. We will have to swing through tonight so we can get the rest of our list. They have a bigger selection and bigger sizes. 

I was a good student and did some studying and made a list of questions in Spanish I will ask Karen. Karen is not a very Spanish sounding name. 
We couldn’t use the pool because the guy was painting, my guess they don’t want people in the pool area as it is where the painter’s ropes terminate and so if he lost equipment or he himself was to fall it could be a traumatic day of swimming. So studying was the next choice as we did not want to commit to going to the beach and dealing with the sand. 
Emily was not studying Spanish though, she was refreshing her French for her lunch with Dominique. 

It is Wednesday and at some point the cleaning lady will come. They introduced us to her when we arrived but I don’t remember her name, I will have to ask Emily to chat with her and get it again. I am studying but after asking her name I would be out of conversation since I also know she lives in Colombia already. Everything after that would be one or two word sentences. Karen tells me not to translate what is being said, instead I am supposed to get the meaning of what is being said. I have a hard time with that. I can get whether or not the person’s mood is good or bad but after that I need to know some of what the person is saying to get what they are talking about. 

We were not able to get a swim in today at all. The security guard that mans the front desk said the pool was closed all day because of the painter. Painter was gone, the guy that was cleaning the pool had told we could swim after two. Maybe two o’clock, maybe two hours, could be two days. He was not specific. It was to dark after class and dinner to swim in the ocean. 

Class went well for me. The math I was allowed to do in English, I just had to pronounce all the math in Spanish. Tomorrow it’s going to be about money. Karen thinks I am improving. I think she’s paid to say that. I’m still not sure I could communicate effectively very much. It is going to be a process. One nice thing is all my DouLingo has given me some vocabulary and my CDs have given me some phrases that are starting to appear in class. I made it to the second section today! I’m not sure if that’s exciting or not. I’m not sure I remember section one. I do still have my materials and can continue to use them to study. 

We at dinner at the apartment tonight, so no restaurant stories. We are going to work on getting a photo of the front of the restaurants we go to and the name. Some of our readers may end up here and want to know where to and where not to eat! 

The lady who was supposed to clean today didn’t show up. We have been keeping things tidy and doing some laundry but we need to take the garbage out since the notice in the elevator says we are not supposed to toss it out the windows. I will have to find where it goes in the morning. 

Speaking of garbage, when we first got here we were noticing a lot of garbage in the streets and along where we walk. Emily and I had conversations about how they need to do some campaign about not littering. The last couple days our route to school has been getting cleaned up some. They probably still need a campaign so people don’t litter and dump waste all over. They also need to push cleaning up after pets. Though there are some random dogs that seem homeless, they may be following San Francisco rules. In Peru dogs wondered alone, but since they were dressed and don’t have thumbs we assumed they had owners, here they are not dressed. 

It’s hard to believe it’s already been 5 days!! This two weeks is going to go fast. We will be trying to get in some sights yet. We did spend a little time on the wall, we will have to get some pictures. 

We are looking at Salsa lessons tomorrow and possibly an island excursion this weekend! There are a couple museums and a church we are probably going to visit. 

Bill got up before me and had a delicious omelet with toast, peanut butter and honey ready when I got up. Here is his post below! He wrote it yesterday evening, but I was too tired to post it last night.

We went down to the beach for a couple hours this morning before lunch and class. I tried out my snorkel gear, not really to see anything as the water in this area is rough and has a lot of fine sand and sparkling ground shell. It seemed to work well. The brand is Cressi, it is a frameless free diving mask and snorkel set. It made it easier to just swim. We are going to try and find a snorkeling tour and hopefully I will get good use of it. 

When the tide comes in it brings debris. After there was a guy that was raking and cleaning up along the beach. 

The apartment is getting more comfortable. Well not the furniture, the couch and the other main area furnishings remind me of IKEA. The bedrooms have beds and closets. It’s probably closer to Walmart put together stuff than IKEA. The humidity and the salt air takes a toll on everything, but it’s clean and functional. 

There are a couple tvs here and some sort of cable but we’re not completely sure how the system works. We did watch some news and a show kind of like Survivor. If we watch something it is usually the ocean. I think we’ve stayed fairly busy without over doing it or getting bored, Emily may think otherwise. I still don’t have enough knowledge to speak Spanish with Emily. Occasionally I will throw a Spanish word out when we are talking in English though. I definitely need more practice. 

Today was my second class and Karen is a very patient person. The first part of class seems to take a while, hour and forty minutes and then the last hour flies by!! I do get to practice my pronunciations a lot. I get to repeat words until Karen has deemed what I said to be satisfactory, or perfecto! It’s probably good I am in a private lesson. If others at my level have to repeat things as much as me, we would only learn a couple words a day. 

After class today we went to look for a Waffles and Crepes place but it was no longer where the map said it should be. So we were walking and talking about what else sounded good when some guy with a laminated sheet held it up and started talking, I seen food and said let’s go! We had to follow the guy a ways down the street before getting to the restaurant. It was probably good they sent him way down to the corner because there wasn’t much else on that section of street. It was a good choice. It was a nice place and the food was excellent!! My rice was flavored with cocoa, very good! The fish was excellent, perfectly fried outside and moist inside! 

We had a very tranquil day! No flooding, no power outages, not problems with the air conditioner. Bill and I went swimming this morning. He tried out his new snorkel gear, I swam and bounced in the waves then soaked up sun on the beach. It was lovely. We fixed some mediocre pasta for lunch then headed off for our second day of classes. I really enjoy conversation with my teacher. She’s very young, energetic and fun to talk to. The second half of my three hour class was all grammar. That’s not fun! We worked on some verb forms that I’ve had a hard time with and I didn’t do all that well with them today. But, it’s an important concept that I need to learn.

There’s a French student here who I mentioned earlier. I think she’s probably in her 60s and she’s traveling alone. She asked me to go to lunch with her tomorrow for a conversation in French. I’m going to watch French news for a while tomorrow morning to remind myself what that language sounds like! I think it will be an interesting conversation, but it takes my brain some time to switch to French, especially after several days of Spanish.

After class this evening, Bill found a neat little restaurant where we had another good meal. I have pictures below. Bill had fried fish, and I had shrimp risotto. It was delicious!

We’re back at our apartment now and I’m completely exhausted. I have pretty good pictures to post below though so this will be a more colorful post. I had a cute video of Bill speaking Spanish in class, but WordPress doesn’t give me video options with this blog.

Hola! 

We are getting settled into our apartment. I’m getting more accustomed to how some of the things work here. The windows are single paned and have aluminum frames so sound comes right though and there isn’t much of an insulating factor to them. Most people where we are staying keep their windows open so it probably doesn’t matter much. 12 floors up and the sounds of the city are still on the loud side. We may have to visit Boca Grande (big mouth) and see how the construction is over there. It’s a ritzy area. Ours is probably working class. 

The temps here are upper 80s but the humidity is also close to 80% so I walk outside and if there isn’t much of a breeze I seem to bead up with moisture. The locals and Emily do not. There is a breeze fairly often though here on the coast so it isn’t bad. 

Yesterday we went and did our testing in the morning, I should have skipped mine and just automatically said “I know nothing!” (Old time reference who knows from what show?) the test did not ask much of what I already learned on DouLingo. Our lessons are at 2pm until 5. Mine were very basic, they may have given me the most qualified person to teach me. Her name is Karen and she speaks several languages and is a linguist. She must’ve started early, guessing she is under 30 y/o. She said she was born in the US but also says she is Colombian. 
I was definitely on the struggle bus yesterday! The second worksheet I did went a lot better than the first. I’m going to have to study before class today because I’m sure she is going to ask me who I am, where I am from and what my nationality is. Bill is the only word I am fairly certain I pronounce correctly! 

A big storm rolled though here yesterday while we were in class, lots of rain. Karen said that the Caribbean gets the back side of the storm hitting New Orleans. The rain was over by the time we got out of class and went to pick up some things at the Exito (Walmart type place). After that we walked around some trying to get back to where we had been the night before but never did find it. We stopped and ate dinner by the light of Emily’s phone since the power went out after we got our lemonades. The food was good and it was interesting to have dinner by phone light. It was quiet. 
After dinner we walked to get a taxi and there were few buildings with generators. In the walled part of the city I was surprised there were so few as it is a popular place. Things did not seem to be affected by no power, people were still out and about. As it was getting dark the street sales people were closing up though. I think they probably would have been anyway. 

We got a taxi relatively easy, they are all over the place. Some have better A/C than others. They are also well used. They don’t have meters and you are supposed set a price with the driver before you take off. They also don’t like to make change. 

We were wondering if we were going to be so lucky as to have a building with a generator, we are. I’m not sure how often the power goes out here. I’m sure it was related to all the rain in a short time yesterday. I think at one time our building may have been pretty high end. Currently they are working on a new coat of paint which will help a lot. There was a guy out swinging from some ropes yesterday and again this morning. It’s going to take him a while to paint a 18 story building! Job security!! There was a group of guys down at ground level doing some work with the stucco by the garage. They must not like rope work. 

We are going to go do some swimming this morning in the ocean. The ocean is nice to listen to, interesting to swim in. 

Yesterday morning, Bill and I went in for our Spanish placement test. This wasn’t as useful for as as for the other students because we have private lesson rather than a class, so we don’t need to test into a specific class. But, it gave us a chance to finalize our enrollment with the school and go through orientation. There are a couple other American students but also some Dutch students and a woman from France. I tried to speak to her in French, but I couldn’t remember any French words! I have a very hard time switching back and forth between French and Spanish. I can do one or the other but not both at the same time! Dominique, the French woman, is probably in her 60s, she lives outside of Paris, and seems really nice. She said she had a hard time switching between English, Spanish and French here. Almost all of the students speak English.

When Bill and I got back, there was a plumber named Alejandro in the apartment fixing our washing machine. We have clean clothes now! He had partially flooded the apartment, and Bill helped him mop up the floor. Alejandro stayed until the washing machine cycled to make sure there weren’t any problems. We had an interesting conversation with him in Spanish. He seemed happy people were talking to him and asking questions about Colombia. He’s a working class guy who speaks informal Spanish so it was a very difficult conversation for me to understand, but we did okay and learned some interesting things about Colombia.

Our first class was yesterday at 2pm. Bill and I both have good teachers and we enjoyed our lessons. Bill has suggested that we speak Spanish as much as possible together. We sit silently most of the time! After class, we found a money exchange place in a sketchy-looking tourist shop and got some more Colombian pesos. We ate at a nice restaurant with an English menu and a good Trip Advisor rating. I had really good fish, and Bill got St. Louis-style ribs. While we were waiting for our food, there was a major power outage that cut off power to part of the city. We ate with my phone propped up on two menu cards with the light on. It worked pretty well. We were concerned that power in our building would be out. We are on the 12th floor, and that would have been a long walk up the stairs in the dark plus no lights and no air in the apartment. Fortunately, we had power, and we only lost internet for a while last night. As we were coming up the elevator last night, it stopped at the 10th floor, and this little white dog came in all by itself. It was very cute. We were trying to figure out what to do when it’s owner (an 11 year old girl) came running to retrieved it!

We have class again at 2pm today so we are headed to the beach to swim in just a little while. Bill is working on his update now. The beach is mostly empty on weekdays, especially in the morning.

In a fun side note, mom says my little dog Lucy will only take her allergy pills if they are hidden inside hamburger meat balls that have been seasoned with garlic salt. It’s a rough life she’s living! I don’t have pictures from yesterday, but I’ll try to get more for my next post.