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Day 16 – Simon Parrilla

Sunday 22nd April, 2012 1 Comment

Tried unsuccessfully to sleep in this morning – kids don’t seem to understand Sundays at all. Enrique took us out for lunch to a restaurant called the Simon Parrilla – nice name. He convinced Leanne to order something which was described as the belly of the cow (not the inside yucky bits, but the fleshy … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Adoption, Colombia 2012

Day 15 – River Cats

Saturday 21st April, 2012 1 Comment

Slow start to the morning – woke up to find a steady drizzle of rain outside. At the moment, it is one of the two annual “wet” seasons here in Cali. Different regions of Colombia have enormous differences in altitude and along with those differences come different climates. Apparently Colombians tend to describe their country … [Read More »]

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Day 14 – Cousins

Friday 20th April, 2012 5 Comments

A quiet day today. I spent some time working in the morning, while Leanne took Andres and Nicol out to the front porch of the hotel to play with the other kids. I did bring my camera out for a while to take some photos though. Andres spent quite a bit of time in the … [Read More »]

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Day 13 – Clean up

Thursday 19th April, 2012 2 Comments

Today’s activity was somewhat dictated by the lack of power at the hotel from last night’s storm. We had been told that the power was expected back on some time this morning. I was planning on getting some work done, so it was a bit frustrating without internet access. There was a lot of activity … [Read More »]

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Day 12 – ICBF, Notario, Chiquitines and the great storm

Wednesday 18th April, 2012 1 Comment

Our plan overnight worked reasonably well, we fed Nicol a bottle just before 11PM and changed her nappy. She was still half asleep, so was reasonably compliant. In return, she slept until nearly 6AM, which was a much better outcome for us. We got up, had breakfast and got ready for our important meeting this morning … [Read More »]

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