Journey Across the Americas to Colombia, SA

Good grief, we're still on the first day of mommy and daddy's big trip. Lots to tell....for sure.

So, after they had settled in to their new digs, and had lunch....oh, lunch. That was on the first page..the picture. Lunch: pretty much daily....soup with potatoes, yucca, and/or plantains, celery, rice, and a meat....all that in the soup. Then, on top of the soup, they would have a dish of rice, a beet/cabbage salad, plantains, and a meat......chicken or beef.....both very tough by our standards. They might serve arapas.....white cornmeal pancakes....but they don't eat bread like Americans eat bread. Supper would be very much the same fare. The portions are huge...much more than one would eat at home in the states. Plantains are eaten in soups, or roasted, or deep fried in oil after being sliced and mashed flat. They are eaten daily. To drink, they had fresh fruit juice.....all different kinds and all very good. The lu-lu and blackberry were the best. Breakfast consisted of egg soup, scrambled eggs, arapas, and hot chocolate. That was after two cups of coffee, of course. The coffee was the absolute best.

Meals, done. So....the next order of business was to walk two blocks up to the Morales compound. Didier is a Morales....his father is Don Domitrio and his mother is Fanny. They live in a house with family next door. One one side is Fanny's brother, Rubernay, and his wife Rosalba. On the other side is a son Norberto and his wife, Miriam Flores...and next to them is another son Freddy and his wife, Miriam A. Norberto works for the state in Cali and Miriam Flores works for the flower company that another Morales clansmate owns. They have a flower farm next to Alberto's farm and they send their flowers all over the world. They had two beautiful arrangements in Al's house when we finally got there. Freddy works the big machinery at the sugar mill and Miriam A. does beautiful crafts. She is very talented. Freddy is the family jokester, although it was later admitted that he learned all his skills from his father, Don Domitrio. Pictures on next blog......