Friday September 18, 2009

Hola! Another beautiful day in Paradise! We woke up to a beautiful day, very humid but no snow! Lynn, Ross and I sat up on our rooftop palapa with our coffee and tea and had a fine time catching up. You can see everywhere up there and it is looking awesome. It’s funny how the Mexican’s are staring at us when we are up there, like, what the heck are you doing sitting on your roof, are you crazy. But it’s funny, across a few houses over we noticed a chair sitting on the second floor of an unfinished house, that wasn’t there before, maybe we are setting a tradition!!!

We took off to Mega, going to get some groceries and a bigger fridge then we were going to go to the beach. Great plans, however things sometimes happens that you don’t expect, we spent more time in Mega than planned then had to come home to accept delivery of our new fridge, we didn’t think they would deliver so soon.

I digress, we got to Mega and found Jesus, he speaks English, we asked him about buying a fridge and he said for us to finish our shopping and once we were ready to find him. We actually found him the first time when Lynn started taking pictures of the shelves of Mega (they have more than ½ of the isle full of oils) and he came up to her and told her she needed special permission to take pictures and would she like him to get that for her. She of course said no, explained to the man that she was not a secret shopper and just wanted to take a picture for her friends at home.

We got all the groceries we needed (without my list that I forgot at home) and Lynn went to find Jesus and then I went to find him, I found another man that spoke English and found Jesus while we were going to the fridge department (actually the appliance department but the fridge department sounded too good to pass up) we went with him to the cashier pay for it (6,480 pesos) then went to the security to have them stamp my bill for the 15 day warranty, then we went back to the “fridge” department and it was a go. In the meantime we bumped into our friends John and Christie and had a nice chat with them.

We got back home, went up on our palapa and watched the clouds roll in. Ross took off to his meeting and Lynn and I went for a walk in our Barrio with the dogs after the fridge was delivered. (The delivery guys (a girl and a guy in a pickup truck) brought the fridge in and left. Lynn and I took the cardboard off, plugged it in as our frozen food was actually thawing!) As we were walking we saw funny looking wacko ducks, lots of dogs, I petted our resident baby horse, chickens, roosters and lots of kids. There is a purple house that we can see from our upstairs palapa that we tried to get to. We figure it is in the gated community that we found by the highway that I didn’t know existed. It started raining while we were coming back from our walk and it was a good thing that we got back when we did cause it rained a lot harder for a while. So much for the beach tonight!

We had a great dinner of BBQ hotdogs wrapped in bacon, beans, ensalada (salad in Spanish) with poppy seed dressing (yum), pickled beets and pickles. We are just putzing on the computer now, almost ready for bed. Lynn and Ross finished munching on some fudge we bought from Banff in April, chocolate and orange, they both drooled while eating, and it was quite disgusting! Ha ha ha! Had to say it!

We are expecting Trina to come tomorrow, she gets to have dinner with us (the old crowd) and we will probably do the ocean tomorrow night. Well, that will be for tomorrow’s blog.

Create a great day!
Ross Kim and Lynn in Paradise