Barranquilla

We got to Barranquilla on Sunday night where we were met by people from the school and taken to our apartments. I love our apartment! It's huge (compared to what we have been living in) and beautiful with lots of built in bookshelves, white tile floors, 3 bedrooms, not counting the maid's room (ha!) and three bathrooms, not counting the maid's bathroom, which is just a toilet and a shower head behind a shower curtain. I guess a lot of people here have live-in maids, but we won't. There's a living room, a dining room, a tv room and great big windows that look out onto the city and the river.






















We bought some hammocks to hang beneath the windows where there are built in hammock hooks, which will be good because that sturdy looking furniture isn't all that comfortable.

We are right across the street from El Prado Hotel where the school pays for us to use the pool. We haven't had a chance to go there yet, but I'm hoping we will soon.

The fruit on the table, a pineapple, 2 mangos and a coconut (which we drank before we took the picture) only cost $2.50 from the fruit stand across the street.