Life is funny/interesting

1) Colombians eat A LOT.....for lunch at least.  Typically there is a LARGE bowl of soup and a large plate full of food.  And yesterday even included another bowl of casserole.  I never can finish my food!  Lucky for me I am married to the human garbage disposal who eats all of his food plus about 1/3 of mine.  I want to take a picture to show you...but there's a fine line between naive newcomer with a fascination and rudeness so we will see on that one.

2) I made a funny and didn't know it!  I was at the dinner table with Diego and 3 other people trying to keep up with the conversation.  I heard something about being together for 40 years and thought Diego had said we had been together that long.  I gave him a "Are you kidding look?!?" for suggesting I'm old enough for that.  Only when everyone started laughing really hard did I realize they said something along the lines of can you imagine being together for 40 years (like the boarding house couple).  Therefore, my look was seen as...."hmmmm with this guy....40 years....I don't think so!"  Hahahaha!  I made a joke in Spanish without knowing it!

3) I am living in Oz.  Seriously, we are somewhere over the rainbow!  Those were a couple pictures that I took on Wednesday.  NO PHOTOSHOP WAS INVOLVED IN ANY WAY!!!  I have never in my life seen a rainbow so well defined.  The sun was shining so bright and there was just a light sprinkle of rain.  (BTW Mom, if you want to retire here know that it rains quite a bit, but usually just a little each day.)  And the building on the left in the picture to the right is where Diego works....it's all glass on the other side!  Quite fancy for Manizales.

4) If you notice at the bottom of the picture (Gramma, you can click on the picture to open it in another page and click it again to make it really big), there are a lot of statues painted in bright colors.  These are found throughout the city along the roads, on buildings, in parks.  I once saw a naked man sitting on top of a building and was quite surprised....I thought maybe that was the art college or something and it was a live action kind of art project.  Diego said it was a statue, but since I haven't found it again I am unconvinced.  If I do see it....I will definitely take a picture for proof so that you will believe me.

5) Random moment the other day consisted of Diego giving the night sky a thumbs up with his arm outstretched.  Then he said, "Hmm, my thumb is ALWAYS bigger than the moon."  He said it like it was the most natural thing in the world to notice such a thing.  I love my husband and the strange way his mind works.  It brings a whole new world for me to look at in a different way.

6) Finally, Diego and I are hopefully going to talk to the real estate company that we have been working with to see about renting an apartment that we like (that I found...thank you Mom for the hundreds of Sunday house viewings as practice).  We tried to go yesterday, but Diego got off work late and they were leaving for the day.  Take a look at the site with a couple pictures....the description can be easily translated by an online translation site.  And yes, it does say that it is 550,000 pesos per month.  That comes out to be about $305 a month.
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