Hard Rock and Goodbye

Hard Rock and Saturday was great! We had a nice but expensive (twice as much as we would pay at a Hard Rock Cafe state-side) lunch and then bought some souvenirs. Jim got his t-shirt and a hat plus I picked a little something up for a work friend. We then walked around the area and went into a little mall. We could barely afford to be in there, really expensive stores. We have found that things like clothing and shoes (these Bogotanos LOVE shoes) are really expensive here. We then wandered around a bit looking for the Harley Davidson store and ended up asking for directions and had to go through this enclosed area of street shops (not really a mall but, yet it was.) These shops included the likes of Versace and Gucci again, couldn't even afford to be there. We ended up finding the Harley Davidson store which was nice but if you can't buy anything....We then caught a cab and went back to the apartment.

On Sunday it was just a hang out day again. We walked through the park next to us since they were having some kind of event but, the kids didn't really seem interested. So we went to an internet/copy place to print out Jim's boarding passes and make a few copies of things. We then went and had empanada's from this little street restaurant and they were to die for. I love Empanada's. I only tried the pollo (chicken) ones but I think Jim tried one of every kind. Then after that we had some helado (ice cream) from another shop. We then just relaxed the rest of the night.

Jim left the apartment about six in the morning on Monday. It wasn't the goodbye I had envisioned nor expected. It is really hard not having him here with us. I'm not afraid to be here without him, it's not that Angie and Camilo are so high maintenence that I need help, it's just that now I know time will stand still. I don't know if it will be three weeks, four, five? I miss my home. I miss my family there. And then I feel so guilty for feeling this way so strongly because we are takking Angie and Camilo from ther home. I try to stay busy (my apartment was spotless by nine yesterday morning) but, it's hard. I tracked Jim's progress throughout the day. We went to Salitre to do some shopping and ended up coming home with a 1000 piece puzzle to keep us (read "me") busy. And I made it through day one with Jim's absence. "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."