You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music...
... the bloody music! It just won't stop. Every night (just about) there is some function at the hotel and bloody loud music. Last night there was some huge wedding. I heard the wedding march being played in the early evening and said "aaahh, a wedding" at 2:00 am when the wedding band was still blasting out the Colombian wedding hits I wasn't feeling so romantic about the wedding, in fact I was cursing the happy couple with a plague of fleas in their armpits.
To add to the music the car alarms just don't stop either. There has been a particulary wonderful one which went off for A WHOLE HOUR STRAIGHT on Friday night and then on and off all of last night. It was a nightmare. I really look like death warmed over this morning and feel even worse! Despite how the nice the hotel is I am going to write a complaint to the management before we leave (YES, Jules I AM!!). It just isn't fair.
Anyway, yesterday (Saturday) we had a very enjoyable day driving up to the mountain area near Medellin for some souvenir shopping and a wonderful lunch (more steak!). Aila - you'll be interested that this cafe is sponsored by Levis. All the staff wear Levis t-shirts and there are signs all over the place advertising Levi.com, etc. The food was great (Jason's ribs were yummy as was the chocolate brownie Will and I shared for desert).
Then we just drove around for a while, sightseeing. It really is beautiful countryside and we really enjoyed seeing some of the tiny villages still looking very much like they would have a few hundred years ago. What's amusing though is that all these modern condos are being built just behind all the old shops and houses; so you have this row of buildings straight out of a history book and right behind them rows of modern, ticky tack box houses, just like you'd find on the new building estates around Sydney. Weird!
Vicky told us a lot about Medellin, the country and how people live. Many people who live in the city have small farms in the country where they go on weekends. It was lovely.
It was raining when we returned so we just veged around our room all evening - trying to watch Meet Joe Black and having it drowned out by all the "fabulous" wedding music.
Today is Sunday and a quiet day at the hotel. Mariana had a bit of a fever overnight, but no other symptoms, so I'll be keeping an eye on her today. Tomorrow we're seeing the doctor to get her Yellow Fever immunisation so if she's not better I'll have him take a look at her. Tomorrow will be a big day with the doctor's visit, Mariana's photo for the passport and a visit to the Notary (not sure why?). We're also going to do the cable car ride up to the mountain top and stop at the Black Market.
Wednesday we have our return visit to La Casita - to drop off presents, ask more questions (hopefully get a photo of Mariana's birthmother - apparently they are better with this now), see her cot and her room, etc, etc. Hopefully the Sentencia will also be signed and finished on Wednesday. Then Thursday we can get her passport and relax until Sunday when we fly out.
Our revised travel plans are: Leave Medellin Sunday 4/12; leave Bogota Thursday 8/12; fly to London via Madrid; then return home to Sydney 22/12 at 9:45 pm - so I won't expect anyone but family (it's not exactly a friendly time). That's how it's looking now, hopefully there will be no bad surprises this week.
I'll post some more photos soon. Thanks to everyone whose been writing - blog comments and emails. The PC here is so slow I don't have time to write back to everyone, but we are thinking of you.
To add to the music the car alarms just don't stop either. There has been a particulary wonderful one which went off for A WHOLE HOUR STRAIGHT on Friday night and then on and off all of last night. It was a nightmare. I really look like death warmed over this morning and feel even worse! Despite how the nice the hotel is I am going to write a complaint to the management before we leave (YES, Jules I AM!!). It just isn't fair.
Anyway, yesterday (Saturday) we had a very enjoyable day driving up to the mountain area near Medellin for some souvenir shopping and a wonderful lunch (more steak!). Aila - you'll be interested that this cafe is sponsored by Levis. All the staff wear Levis t-shirts and there are signs all over the place advertising Levi.com, etc. The food was great (Jason's ribs were yummy as was the chocolate brownie Will and I shared for desert).
Then we just drove around for a while, sightseeing. It really is beautiful countryside and we really enjoyed seeing some of the tiny villages still looking very much like they would have a few hundred years ago. What's amusing though is that all these modern condos are being built just behind all the old shops and houses; so you have this row of buildings straight out of a history book and right behind them rows of modern, ticky tack box houses, just like you'd find on the new building estates around Sydney. Weird!
Vicky told us a lot about Medellin, the country and how people live. Many people who live in the city have small farms in the country where they go on weekends. It was lovely.
It was raining when we returned so we just veged around our room all evening - trying to watch Meet Joe Black and having it drowned out by all the "fabulous" wedding music.
Today is Sunday and a quiet day at the hotel. Mariana had a bit of a fever overnight, but no other symptoms, so I'll be keeping an eye on her today. Tomorrow we're seeing the doctor to get her Yellow Fever immunisation so if she's not better I'll have him take a look at her. Tomorrow will be a big day with the doctor's visit, Mariana's photo for the passport and a visit to the Notary (not sure why?). We're also going to do the cable car ride up to the mountain top and stop at the Black Market.
Wednesday we have our return visit to La Casita - to drop off presents, ask more questions (hopefully get a photo of Mariana's birthmother - apparently they are better with this now), see her cot and her room, etc, etc. Hopefully the Sentencia will also be signed and finished on Wednesday. Then Thursday we can get her passport and relax until Sunday when we fly out.
Our revised travel plans are: Leave Medellin Sunday 4/12; leave Bogota Thursday 8/12; fly to London via Madrid; then return home to Sydney 22/12 at 9:45 pm - so I won't expect anyone but family (it's not exactly a friendly time). That's how it's looking now, hopefully there will be no bad surprises this week.
I'll post some more photos soon. Thanks to everyone whose been writing - blog comments and emails. The PC here is so slow I don't have time to write back to everyone, but we are thinking of you.
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