Monday August 10th & Tuesday Aug 11th, 2009

Okay, you are looking at 2 people, ok, if you could see us, you would be looking at 2 people that have spent 2 flipping years planning our trip, you would think that we would have everything covered. Ha

We woke up this morning and were just lying in bed minding our own business when all of a sudden the lights go out. We thought nothing of it as this happens quite often, except I didn’t get my coffee this morning, heaven forbid. We called John and Christie to ask if we could come over and have their son Zac look over some papers that UPS sent to Ross in regards to his ordering his power conditioners. Thank God Christie made coffee and everything went great, except for our power. I had asked Christie what we owed them because they paid our power bill in June when we weren’t here and we owed them money. She dug it out and it seems they paid on May 26th and they bill every two months. OK, if you have been following this you would realize that we are 2 weeks late on paying the power bill, even if we haven’t received a new one! Off we went to CFE (the power company) which is right beside Telmex where we have our internet (cross your fingers, 2 more weeks) scanned our bill in and it asked for 34 pesos (approx $3.40 cdn) and we paid it.

We went back home to see if the power was on, and no it wasn’t, Ross went to talk to our neighbours and they said (he thinks) that they didn’t have power either, so we took off to go to PV to go to Office depot for a computer chair and filing cabinet and then to Sam’s Club to see if we could get the shed to store all our shit in.

I got a 2 drawer lateral filing cabinet and an office chair from Office Depot, and then went to old town to Pepe’s tacos for some very excellent tacos, then off to Sam’s club for the storage shed. They had 2 left and we are having it delivered along with a pool that Ross found for ½ price that I think will work in our backyard. Just to remind you that we are in Mexico, nothing is fast, after about 2 hours in Sam’s Club waiting for the guy that speaks English to get everything in order (he mentioned that getting the paperwork in order was close to filing papers for the government) we took off.

So today was a good day in regards to getting stuff done that we needed to get done. We got back home and guess what... no power. We called the Forget household and asked Zac to call to see what the problem was...........are you waiting for it.......................our power got cut off because of non payment. Go figure, if I hadn’t asked Christie for our power bill that they paid we would not have paid it and CFE wouldn’t be coming tomorrow to turn our power back on! So here we sit with battery lights, candles and flashlights!

We sat outside and watched a most excellent thunderstorm (I think 3 cells were colliding), the lightning struck and then instantly the thunder came. Wow it was spectacular! The rain was just pouring down and it was quite windy, which, we hope stays, cause our fans aren’t working or for that matter our bedroom air conditioning because of the power. So being Canadians we took off in the car and drove to tower pizza to have a great pizza and lime ice tea. We drove through (it seemed like) rivers until we got to the highway, and still the water was quite high is parts.

It’s 10:03 Jalisco time and Ross is lying in bed giving our critters their bedtime treats, and I’m sitting in the kitchen table with a battery operated light over my computer so I can see something, the candles aren’t really helping a whole lot. It is raining gently!

We were going to have a bonfire by the ocean tonight, as John, with our chainsaw, cut us some wood, but it was called off because of the rain, we are hoping for tomorrow night.

Tuesday...................We didn’t get a great sleep last night and was up quite early for us this morning. We started the generator in Betsy and plugged our fridge and water cooler in, that was of course after we made coffee. Dick came over to go over with Ross what we will need for another power meter and when we told Dick what happened to our power he went out back and got our power working for us! While Dick was here John Forget called to let us know the power company wants 90 pesos to turn our power back on but when Ross told him what Dick did he said ok. We are still out of water, Christie says that our tank will probably fill tonight to we will be in the ocean for sure tonight and John said that the bonfire is a go for tonight too!

I started to put my new file cabinet together but it is too complicated to put together with Spanish instructions so we are going to have someone from office depot to come to put it together. I am sitting in my office on my new steno chair that I got together without a hitch.

UPS came early this afternoon with one of Ross’s power conditioners (it is now residing in the bedroom) so he is a happy camper. Sam’s club came by with our new shed and swimming pool and Francisco is coming over at 10am tomorrow to put it together for us. I just got a call from Yuan and he is coming in a couple of hours with my dresser, table, cd and dvd cabinet, the shelves for my buffet (hopefully) and the shelves for Ross’s speakers.

So all in all it has been another grand day in Paradise! Oh yeah, I put a pot on the BBQ with a pot of cold water with 6 eggs in it to hard boil them.......................I had it on for an hour and they still could have had a few more minutes. Being at sea level water takes forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrever to boil!

Well gotta go and get the stuff out of the other dresser so Yuan can take it away so I’ll say bye for now
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Luv and Hugs
Ross and Kim