Christmas Day started with horrible news from home. Keith's dear sister, Teresa, passed away during the night, luckily in her sleep. She has experienced nearly annual bouts with obstructions in her digestive system, very painful and serious, and it seemed to be intensified by stress. We lost her this season and our family will never be the same.
Thank goodness for SKYPE! We were able to talk face to face with Keith's dad, Stan, and our daughter, Lyndz Spring, along with my mom who lended support to all. But we still know we need to head home for a bit to be close to our family including Teresa's daughter, Emily & her young family, as well as Teresa's husband, Tom Hess.
We have appreciated the support of friends through emails over the past couple of days. The world is made closer through technology, we are not grieving alone. And what would we have done without the computer to reschedule everything, cancellations and new flights.
We are heading home on Monday night, a red-eye flight. We will be heading back out on the journey after about three weeks. Brazil isn't in the picture this go-around.
Our last two days in Colonia were mostly spent in our hotel room watching the computer to see if anyone was there to chat, but we did get out for some long walks around the riverside. We dreamed of taking some of the sailboats out for a spin but stayed on shore looking longingly.
We took a bus for 2 1/2 hours today from Colonia south to the city of Montevideo. We went out for a nice dinner and snapped a few pictures of the fancy buildings around the hotel. Tomorrow we will have all day to check the Old Town here before flying out. I'll add a few pictures from tomorrow's tour if we get internet access during our various airport stops tomorrow & Tuesday morning.
This will be the last blog entry for South America 2010, part 1. Look for part 2 in mid-January 2011.
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