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The weekend is here not that it makes much difference to me and Jeff everyday is a weekend to us LOL. Well they’ve made up their minds about Camilo’s birthday we’re going to his house where Olga’s cooking lunch and I guess a little cake. He’s going to be nineteen nothing special about that around here, when 10 year olds can walk into a store and buy a six-pack of beer. The Colombians got a gold medal in BMX bike riding( which I didn’t even know was an Olympic sport) and you can see the difference between winning a medal in the US and winning one for Colombia. In Colombia they spent over an hour of their nightly news show showing and talking about it, where as in America except for the winner’s home town it really isn’t that big a deal. It seems America once again takes something for granted they shouldn’t and makes itself seem a little more arrogant to the rest of the world. Every one of their eight medals is celebrated like it was supposed to be there are parties in Medellin and the athlete’s home towns bigger than the one we reserve for the World Series or Super Bowl winners I think that’s kind of sad and I hope you guys agree. You remember yesterday when I said there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, well today there’s nothing but clouds in the sky. Maybe it will rain and maybe it won’t that’s weather for you. Time for me to start to enjoy the weekend till tomorrow CIAO

Friday and there isn’t a cloud in the sky, which probably means it will rain later. Had the guy here to up the brackets for our TVs wore out three drill bits these walls have some sort of super concrete in them , it’s better than anything I’ve ever seen in the US. Still no idea what’s going on for Camilo’s birthday Sunday I’ve said this before thinking beyond today is not something Colombian people do well, which explains some of the infrastructure problems they have down here that and the various major cities don’t talk to each other much. Have you ever carried a compass into a room and looked at it 90% of the time the corners of the room will line up with the north, south, east, and west points on the compass pretty cool huh try it sometime. That comment shows you how dead everything is around here they did have the flower festival this past week but we weren’t able to attend we might head out to the botanical gardens this weekend to see if any of the displays are still up well it’s lunch time so CIAO.

It’s Wednesday the 8^th of August and we just got phone, cable, and the internet and yes the cable company sucks down here to anyhow how’s everybody been anything exciting happening I should know about? The house is all finished it’s hard to hang things because it’s made up of steel reinforced concrete but the view is spectacular we’re on the tenth floor of and eleven story building and we face almost dew east. So the pictures you see are from a sunrise not a sunset and yes I get to look down on clouds and yes it is cool. Hari is here for the day so I can’t really spend too much time here but I promise to bring everyone up to date in the next couple of days I’ll even let Jeff rant about the cable company so for now hope you enjoy the pics and see you tomorrow Ciao.