Tuesday August 25, 2009

Hola,

Another wonderful in our new home! We looked at the temperatures for the next couple of days and it’s gonna be hot. I think Ross said 39 by Friday, we have been told this is going to be a very hot September, I guess they were right.

Off to John’s at about 12:30ish for Ross to e-mail his UPS gal in Guadalajara as she said she has not received the e-mail with the bank receipt and if she doesn’t get it soon she will send the shipment back. Ross looked at his email and found out that Zac e-mailed the scanned copy to Ross but not to UPS girl, so off goes the e-mail she needs and she e-mailed back to let us know they are going to release the shipment, yeah! John gave me the Google Earth Plus and I can see our house on Google maps, it’s really cool!

We drove to Vallarta so I could get my nails done by someone that knows what they are doing so we went to the Soriana Mall across the street from the hotels and I found a wonderful place. She did my nails for 350 pesos (which is about the same as Edmonton) but she used a powder for the French tip rather than a spray, it looks so much better. I have booked another appointment for 3 weeks along with a pedicure. Handyman was to come over at 5 and I wasn’t nearly finished by 4:30 so Ross took off home and after I got my nails done I wondered the mall a bit and stopped at a little restaurant and had Paella (I think that’s how it is spelled) which is a really yummy rice with mussels, shrimp and I think calamari. I tried to take a bus home but every bus I stopped I asked if they went to Bucerias they said no, so after about 5 buses, I took a cab. It cost me 200 pesos but it was definitely worth it as it would have taken 6 times longer by bus.

Handyman was here when I got home and he extended my roof drain off the kitchen and put it into the ground, Ross wanted to know where the water went and we found out that our drain for the washer is missing around 1 foot of pipe so all that water was going under the house rather that out the pipe into the sewer system so our laundry room, after time, would collapse, this is the pipe he attached the roof drain to. So he is coming back tomorrow night to fix that, boy we are paying for his kids Christmas this year. Actually that was wrong, we pay him so little it’s ridiculous, but he is happy for the work.



Guess what I am doing tomorrow! I am going out with the girls for lunch and a chic flick, I have no idea what movie we are going to see, but I’m meeting Sue and her friend Gail (I haven’t met her yet, according to Sue) at 12:55 at the Oxxo (Mexico’s 7-11) at the Decameron gate and we are going into Vallarta for a girl’s afternoon out. It makes me feel good (actually it makes us both feel good) that we have been accepted and liked by the Gringos here. We seem to have fit in quite well; we certainly have a good time when we are out with any of them!

Well, it’s 9:30 and NCIS is on, I’ve already seen it but it’s a very good one. So I’ll say adios for now, everyone take care and we’ll talk to you soon.

Love Hugs and Peace
Ross and Kim in Paradise
(and ROCK N ROLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ross