Day 34 in Colombia!

Today our top priority was to get Owen’s plane ticket at the Continental office. Sounds easy, right? Well, we jumped into a cab, I handed the driver the address and off we went. We drove for a while and then I noticed the driver start driving up and down the same street – he couldn’t find the address! He stopped for a while and said something to me that I couldn’t understand and then asked if I had the phone number for our destination, which I didn’t, so off we went again, up and down the same roads we had already been on. Finally I guess the light bulb went off and he took off in a new direction. (I halfway thought he was just going to bring us back to our apartment!) We pulled into a large complex with all sorts of businesses. At the end of the complex was a hotel, so he pulled over and got out to ask for directions to Continental. We were pretty surprised when he came back to the car and said it was just up the stairs and around the corner! Yeah! We finally arrived at our destination!

We had the driver wait as we tried to locate the office. I was just about to turn around when right in front of us it appeared! So in we went. We were 4^th in line with only 1 person working the counter…and he was having computer problems! So we waited for well over an hour for our turn. Owen was a very good boy, but an hour is long for anyone, so by the time it was our turn he was ready! I had my Spanish dictionary out with a number of pages tabbed to attempt to stumble my way through our conversion, but he spoke perfect English! Thank goodness because by now there were 8 people waiting behind us. Although it took about 20 minutes due to computer problems, we finally got out of there with everything we needed. As we headed back to our taxi, we passed our driver. He had gotten worried about us since it was taking so long and came looking for us! So we all piled back in the cab and headed back to the apartment with tickets in hand!

We took it easy the rest of the day and spent our time enjoying our apartments beautiful grounds. Owen had fun ripping apart leaves, crawling around and playing in the play ground.

Owen's latest invention is the water jug scuttle! It's much less work than crawling!!