Getting Ready for our Sailing Trip

Up early. It's hard to sleep in.

We packed our stuff up to prepare to move to the Mamallena Hostel, where we booked our boat from. They are they main booking place for boat trips to Panama, so figured it was easier to be there and there would be lots of other travelers there.

Said goodbye to Ashley, she is heading to a winery near Bogota to volunteer for a month.

We headed to the other hostel around 11:00 and got checked in. We talked to the hostel about getting an itinerary showing we'll be leaving Panama within 72 hours, she suggested we edit our travel documents and they can print them off for us.

Editing text in PDFs is a lot more complicated than it should be. The very latest Microsoft Office and the very latest Adobe Acrobat can do it, but dad only had older versionsof these pieces of software. I tried Google Apps and some free online services and those were all fails as well. I finally downloaded the latest LibreOffice onto dad's laptop and it worked wondrously for editing PDFs, keeping fonts and formatting. We literally spent over 3 hours trying to figure this one out. The internet isn't super speedy here, and downloading LibreOffice took about 4 hours on top of that.

I sent them to the front desk for printing, but never received them.

We headed across the street to a Mexican restaurant for lunch in the mid afternoon.

At 6 we went to the meeting place to meet the boat captain. The restaurant was closed, so we all went to the square a couple of blocks away.

The captain is young and very tiny frame, not quite what I expected. He's Columbian.

We found out that we leave in the evening, not the morning, so we have another day in Cartagena.

After our meeting, dad and I went to a small restaurant for supper. I then headed over to the old city walled area, and happen to come across a swing band performing on the streets. They were awesome, I bought a CD from them.

Back to the hostel and read and to bed.