its hard to know where to beging to describe the event. of course the first night we headed out to kirks favorite bar in the old city. this was a cool salsa bar with an out door seating area. throughout the night different groups of entertainers would ome along and dance or whatever and then pass the hat. when you got tiered of that you could bob into the salsa bar and find someone to salsa with. i gave it a shot a few times and managed to not totally emberass my self! the other great thing about columbia and this bar is they do not server rum and cokes by the glass. you order the botte and a mixer and they bring you this and a bucket of ice. muy economical and you never get a bad drink. we even got them to being us glass glasses. cant remember the esponol for that!
we also did the night walk aournd the city. you can walk around the walled city on the top of the wall and every so often there is a dude selling cold beers for 3 pesos each ($1.50). we did this a coulle of times and in the process kept discovering cool squares with entertainers and awsome street food. there was so much good stuff for sail we had to try to not anything so we would be hungery enough! and yes you can fall off the wall and kill your self. there are no yellow lines or railings and surprisingly enough no columbians falling off suing someone for their stupidity.
needless to say we did not get a lot of boat projects done. we did put a new one way valve in the head pressure line, actually found one at the local shop. also, following kirks detailed description we navigated thorough this massive out door "market" selling everything from washing machines to fried chick to fins extra fuel containers for the passage. we settled on 3 16 gal containers that fit perfectly in the cockpit bringing the total fuel capacity up to 200 gal. the jugs cost 50 $ and fuel is a $ cheeper here than the bvi so basically the tanks as free.
we did two beach days complete with the palapa cooler and gold beer and rum and diet coke. the first day we where acosted by the masage girls where quite entertaining. the wold litterly not take no for an answer and just sarted rubbing you down. i finally reletned to one of the hotter funnyer ones as she kept saing promotiano or whateve the spains woord for "promotianal" is. the second trip we even managed to bring the ble speeker so we could continue to listen to the same palapa play lists again and again!
some where along the way we both got hair cuts, seth from the old school barber and me from some big black chick in a message/beauty parlor. i remembered to take a picture of my self with short hair along to bridge the laguage gap. i think i am going to stick with this 6 month between haircut program going back and forth between short and long!
we also ventered into the backbacker land one night and had the best fried chicken ever at this little bar. the litterly just have this vat of boiling oil behind the bar they throw chicken into. it is delicous and super moist and takes an amazingly long time to cook. the whole system looked like a massive deth trap with exposed wires and hot oil. we where pretty sure the was not workers comp if you screwed up and put your hand int the vat. the second time we went we even got them to make us fries, a special order item that seth had too seet talk them into. the best part was they gave you plastic gloves to eat your chicken with, i am amazed no one else has come up with this!
we even did the "gay day bus tour". we almost did not get to squeeze this event in as we where getting so good at sleeping in towards the end of the trip but we got organized after our 11am wake up and where on the bus at 1pm. it was quite fun we got the front top seats had our little 6 pack cooler with beer. we where all set up and then the "flight attendant" came up. we thought she was going to complain about the beer but she just took our voucher gave us tickets and our "complementary" headsets for the tour (in 6 different languages).
it was quite a fun event we got to see the whole city most of which we had seen in bits and pieces before. we went down the "peninsula" which apapernetly used to be an island and is now covered with hi rises really reminds me of garden grove in miami.
we finished up the gay day charter event with a stop at mc-ds for fries for the bus ride home and then a final pass at the awesome fried chicken place! we really are going to miss this place.
we got off the dock and fueled up the day before seths departure, super nice fuel dock 4.25 per gal fuel. stayed open well after closing to fill up all the boats waiting in line to top up before the weekend. after this palapa was pretty much ready to go anywhere. we headed back on dropped anchor and after a r&c
headed in to clear out.
the check and out here is a breeze, the dock guy new "gordo" dave and the day after we arrived he came by and picked up our papers. a few days later he came back with a customs girl who looked at the boat from the dock and gave us our clearance in. the night before i left dave met us at the marina parking lot and geve us all the docs and charges us 400 pesos's 200$. no waiting wandering or anything
after the "check out" i took seth out for pizza and then we buzzed over to the minimart to get money from the atm for seths follow on trip. of course there was this hot chick in the mini mart giving out free samples of rum. she seemed to like us and kept poring us rum. seth got a bottle and got a free sausage/lime combo with it! they offered him a free jacket as well but it was a bit small and its a bit hot here! not sure where that marketing program came from! the chick wanted pictures with her and seth and we ended up pretty much shutting down the line while the posed for the photo opp.
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