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Thursday November 28, 2019
To paraphrase FDR, this is a day that will live in infamy, and a day that has forever altered our religious ideas, and the Christmas season. 2 years ago today, Cristina's son Christian was cruelly ripped from our lives needlessly on his 22nd birthday. Today he would have been 24 and on a path to success that we helped pave for him. Happy Birthday Christian.
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This morning we were again out of the house at 7:30am to take 2 kittens for sterilization in Tulua. We came home and crashed again to get ready for the rest of the day. Cristina retrieved the cats with Claudia and Adiela's help later and then spent a lot of time at the gravesite.
I was tasked to help drive David and Irma to the Cali airport at 1pm and we were joined by Fabiola's son-in-law Alex for muscle and translation. Irma was starting her 32 -hour odyssey to Johannesburg, South Africa for 2.5 months. We mad the trip in an hour, well ahead of any schedule so she booked in her bags and got a boarding pass with no line-ups. We arranged to come back at 4:40pm to get a wheelchair ride. In the meantime we had a nice lunch and fun conversation.
There was method to our madness to get her a wheelchair ride... First she gets on the plane first and gets off last. In Bogota she needs to get her luggage and get to her right Avianca flight to Sao Paolo. This way, she has immediate help for all of that because she speaks little Spanish, no Portuguese, and gets flustered very easily. Hopefully things will go easier for her this way.... The waterworks were turned on for the tearful farewell as she got wheeled into the security area.
On the way home we came to a complete standstill for about 15 minutes, again with no options but wait. When we finally did get moving we saw that the cause of the problem was a rolled over sugar cane train truck on a merging curve. Then we had one of those in both lanes delaying traffic again. Grrrrrr. Other than that, we had a pretty smooth ride home.
The critters were certainly happy to see me about 6:30pm and then Cristina about 8pm.
I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.
Al
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| The check-in |
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| Lots of snuggling before the trip |
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| David will have to cope alone for 2.5 months |
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| Oh-oh, stuck in traffic again. Cane trucks in front. |
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| Bad shot in the rain of a cane truck on its side. |
