Day 3

Just talked to Zephan.  It was pretty choppy, but I did gather a few things:

He's doing great, and so far has talked with some other PBT-ers and gone shopping.  They have Ovaltine there, so that's pretty exciting.

Tomorrow, he's headed out of the capital to visit the region we may end up working: a 20-hour taxi ride away. 

Silas and I are visiting in Columbia. Tonight my friend Jeanie is watching him and I'm going to do some shopping all by myself.  Yay!

Day 1

Silas and I took Zephan to the airport this morning.

Silas has been an angel today—a great way to start out our three weeks together.  I'm just hoping it will last . . . the whole time.  That would be grand.

After the airport, we headed to the botanical gardens with Zephan's parents.  They know someone who works there, so we got in for free and got to go backstage to the greenhouses.  I had my camera and had lots of fun taking pictures.  Silas slept through most of it.

I haven't heard anything from Zephan yet, but he should be headed across the Atlantic by now.

Since we've been home, I've had a little bit of that giddy home-alone feeling of my childhood.  I can watch any movie I want and eat anything that I can afford to buy (we haven't been home for a century, so our fridge is very empty).  Wooohoooo.  Tomorrow Silas and I are cleaning the house, running errands, and heading to Columbia.  I am SO looking forward to staying with our friends there :)