It’s been one year since I had the hysterectomy. Not only was the surgery where they found cancer, it was also where they removed it which means I’m a year cancer free!! I still have a year of close monitoring to make sure it’s gone forever, but I’m feeling good and getting back to normal.
As I took this picture, Sven noticed I was wearing my sloth tank top and socks. He said he should be the sloth with the most pictures on this blog and asked me to post his vacation photos from our trip to Colombia.
Sven and I hanging out on Medellin.He loved the bright colors of Jardin. So different than the rainforest where it’s mostly just green. He wasn’t interested in the coffee farm we toured. He said he grew up in some trees by a coffee farm. But he did like the Colombian coffee.His favorite AirBnB was the one with the wall of bamboo.He loved the lake in Guatape.He slept on the top bunk in our hotel in Guatape.He was super happy to meet this Colombian sloth that lived in a park in Cartajena. He also really liked the beach in Cartajena
Sven had a great vacation but is happy to be back in Panama.
We’ve spent the last two weeks settling back into normal life. It feels great to not be thinking about Wasabi or upcoming medical stuff.
My hair is back to its normal color thanks to Jeff’s hair coloring expertise. I’ve also learned to embrace my waves vs fighting them thanks to curl coaching from my friend Julie.
I finally wore one of my wigs when Rolf and Samuel hosted a murder mystery party.
I was the murderer.
This is the last week at my job and then we take off for a two week vacation in Colombia.
Jeff and I took advantage of the day off yesterday to go to Taboga Island.
It’s a small island only a 30 minute boat ride from Panama City
There is a beach but it was rainy so we saw it but didn’t hang out there. Instead we walked around town and I took a lot of photos of doors. There were a ton of chickens as well which I also took photos of.
Jeff tried to interview these chickens on why they were crossing the road.
they wouldn’t tell him.
Lunch was a pork chop and fried plantains. In an effort to have something American for the 4th of July, we had light beer.
After lunch we went to the church of San Pedro which is the second oldest church in the America Pacific or possibly the western hemisphere, or continent. Google has varying accounts of what exactly its the 2nd oldest of. Just know it was old.
The church was founded in 1550. I’m assuming the basketball net is slightly newer.
On the boat ride back we watched these birds. They flew right in front of the boat and seemed to be surfing on the wind.
As we watched we saw something leave the birds butt. Before we could register what it was we were splattered with bird poo.
Didn’t catch a photo of that.
Luckily we had kleenex with us and were in our way back home. Once home we washed our clothes…twice and took very long showers.
I hope everyone has a good 4th of July. The sad news about the parade shooting made the news out here. We were relieved to know our friends there were all safe.
This is the face of a woman who just got a senior citizen discount! Women who are residents and over 55 get a jubliada (retired person) discount on many things in Panama. One being entrance into forest preserves.
It did include wearing this bright yellow wristband. Non jubliados like Jeff just got white ones. I’d like to believe in a natural disaster they use the bright yellow to know who to rescue first.
My discount was an entire dollar. Yes one dollar off. Jeff is not a senior citizen yet. Even though we are the same age men don’t get the discount until age 60. This is why I’m Jeff’s silver mama. Not able to support him like a sugar mama but at least can save us money.
Jeff’s pretty happy about that discount.
At this rate only need to go a few thousand times to get this residency visa to pay for itself.
I was super tired on this hike. It made me realize I’m getting stronger everyday but still regaining strength.
The only wildlife we saw were catapillers.
When we got home we realized why we didn’t see any sloths. Sven was on a conference call with all the Panamanian sloths. They were planning their next meet up.
We started the day at an art museum. When we got there a group of people were doing the hokey pokey.
After the museum we went to Veragrus which is the nearest beach to Panama City. It’s not the greatest beach but there are restaurants that line the beach which make for a fun Sunday lunch.
Jeff had chicken. I had a piece of fish but Rolf and Samuel had entire fish including the heads.
some people enjoy fish heads.some do not.
But it was a fun day and I’m feeling back to myself!!
I love that I don’t even know how to title a blog post now!
Today we went walking and I felt pretty darn good. Samuel and Rolf are over for dinner. They brought over the makings for passion fruit and champagne drinks.
