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We said goodbye to Clara, our host, at 6am on our way to the airport. We were excited to be heading home, but found it incredibly difficult to leave. We had to make sure we had enough cash to pay the Colombian departure tax. Fabio, who drove us to the airport, got an exemption certificate for Angela but Kelly and I ended up paying the business rate of 122,000 pesos instead of 75,000 pesos because I was too groggy at that hour to come up with the right Spanish to explain... The nice thing about coming from France is that you can leave in the afternoon (although then the flight is 10 or 11 hours)..
Ok, that story was just a smokescreen to distract readers from realizing that it was *emotionally* difficult to leave, not logistically.. We are going to miss new friends and of course Clara's Ajiaca (Colombian chicken soup). And we'll have to go back to doing our own laundry (although Mom did enough to get us through the first few days!)