First Week in Colombia

Today is Saturday, Feb. 11, 2018, and we have been in Colombia since very late Tuesday night.  Our trip was tiring but I am adjusting fast to the warm weather and getting over swollen ankles.
We have been carefully taken care of  by our family here and by our friend, Mercedes, who drives us where we want to go.  Yesterday, Saturday, Juan Esteban arrived from Bogota with a load of PH Plus water that can only be bought there.  Then we enjoyed a wonderful lunch with him and Mercedes, his Mom at a wonderful restaurant called Restaurante Cafe Quindio.  The food was amazing.  Wonderfully prepared.  Juan also made sure we got our Colombian phone number with a SIM card you buy here which fits into our older Iphone so we can use our phone here without having WiFi access if we are out.
I have not been swimming yet because I prefer morning when the sun isn't so hot and the pools are not crowded.  And, we have not been going because of dentist appointments yet. The park where we go has 3 olympic size pools.  Usually one is open during the week.
The weather is hot when the sun is out, and cooler when it is cloudy.  We have had sunny weather almost every day unless it becomes cloudy and rainy which doesn't last all day.   It is "WINTER" here now, so they say😄
As far as my health, I am feeling great.  I am enjoying eating their wonderful cooking and being careful how and what I eat.  I wash my hands a lot.  Everyone is being sensitive to my health needs and I am very thankful and happy about that:)
The other day we had a visit from a very old friend whom we haven't seen in maybe 40 years.  His name is Rafael Cardenas, a former opera singer in Bogota.  He is now a pentecostal pastor and he shared his faith with us. Because my Spanish isn't very good, I listened attentively, and knew the gist of what he said even though I didn't understand him word for word.  (He probably thought I understood more than I did:)   Anyway, it was very interesting to see him again since I didn't even remember what he looked like, especially with graying balding hair:):):)  He used to be a friend of Agustin's brother Ovidio who is deceased and used to come here and sing arias for us!!!!  A baritone!
We have to leave in 2 weeks again to go back.  I am savering every day and thanking God for this opportunity to be here again and feeling so well.  I am trying to enjoy all the scenery, food I can eat and people around here once again.
Aside from a few mosquito bites already, I am being careful now about that with Repel I brought along.
    This is all a  gift from God that I never thought would be happening again when I got the results of the news that I had a adenocarcenoma tumor in my pancreas last year that has been treated over a year with chemo.
     Each day is a new day for which I am thankful.