Saturday May 26, 2012

Saturday May 26/12 update

Most of the day is spent preparing to go to Michael and Susan’s party tonight across from Santo Domingo.  They live on a floor above the Konica photo store where I got all my photos printed yesterday.  They have a 3 bedroom apartment plus a 2 bedroom guest apartment for $300 a month on a long-term lease.  Those kind of deals are getting very hard to come by now.   Michael and Susan are from Toronto and spend 6 months here and six months in the summer back home.

I spent part of the morning putting double-faced stickies on about half of the 90 photos I had printed.  This was just an assortment of some photos I was proud of, and a few Grandpa Charles’ old family photos.  Then I started to stick these on my bedroom wall as my own off-beat decorating touch.  My small angled orange wall must be a different paint texture, or have more moisture, because the photos are falling off that portion one after the other.  I’ll have to stay with the white walls or come up with another plan….

We got to Michael and Susan’s party shortly after 6:30 and there was already quite a crowd there and we recognized many faces.  They had gone on a 4 day volcano tour and Susan had many great photographs adorning the walls.  She certainly has a good eye.   Since they own a travel company she had photos from many continents and I was mesmerized by some of them.  There were 3 or 4 shots that seemed almost identical to shots I have.

Their apartment is 200 years old with high ceilings with two sections of glass blocks to allow light from the clear roof in the apartment above to come through.  It has about 6 tiny balconies where they leave the windows open most of the day.  They are Gran Columbia, directly across from Santo Domingo church so they get to see a lot of action daily.   The floors are wood and creak heavily (no burglar could sneak up on them).

The crowd ebbed and flowed and everyone got along well.  My only problem was a woman who insisted on smoking on the corner balcony and all the smoke came inside causing me to instantly leave the room every time I saw her go out there.  Thankfully I think she was the only idiot in the crowd that still smokes.

The buffet was endless as everyone brought a plate of something.  I did my usual grazing and had my share of devilled eggs, cheese, crackers, almonds, Thai chicken, and brownies.   Bella stayed pretty much in one spot all night and got by OK but we left after 2 hours.

Enjoy the pics.    That was today’s excitement.    Hugs to all.

120526 Apartment Kitchen 1 with glass block ceiling

120526 Apartment Living Room 1

120526 Apartment Living Room 2

120526 Apartment Kitchen 2 with glass block ceiling

120526 Apartment Third bedroom

120526 Apartment outside

120526 Cute family on the walking path

120526 Gran Columbia East

120526 Gran Columbia West

120526 Santo Domingo

120526 Santo Domingo

120526 The beginning of my photo wall

120526 Susan's photos 1 (volcanoes)

120526 Susan's photos 2

120526 Susan's photos 3

120526 Susan's photos 4

120526 Susan's photos 5

120526 Tom Thumb 1

120526 Tom Thumb 2