Buenos Tardes!! Good afternoon on this sunny Viernes, Friday. Current weather is sunny with some light high clouds and a temperature of 30.8 in the shade. No precipitation since September 29.
A bit of a different schedule today…nice to have time in the afternoon to update the blog. All possible because we were up early for Telmex, got the gym out of the way and had no errands to run this afternoon. So instead of 4pm pool time, it was more like 2pm pool time…actually needed sunscreen!!
The feedback to my photo expose has been over whelming, so I will not make you all wait.
This is a photo of a taxi from Santa Cruz, where mi banco is as well as the location of Emigracion and the cruise ship pier.
Glad to appease the crowd of taxi photo collectors.
Bexico is getting up at 7am (yikes) and has been very productive at that hour of the morning. She starts her work right away and has generally accomplished quite a bit (hee hee hee) before yours truly drags his butt out of bed. But even getting up at 7am, she has made comment as to not knowing where the day goes.
It’s crazy for us to think that we left Vancouver September 15 and come this Lunes, we will have been here in Huatulco for uno mes (month) already.
Lalo met us at our condo at 1010am…the first early Mexican we have ever met!! I had typed out the specifics of our contract, the results from our first 3 visits as well as the 4 or 5 preguntas (questions) that we had. Lalo speaks very good Ingles, but being able to have something on front of him would assist. That and he has NO idea about the internet or computers. My favorite quote from him regarding computers was “they will somehow send that with electronic mail”.
Anyway, it was great to have him there at Telmex because it ensured there would be no missed questions or answers. He ended up talking to our regular contact, Christina, who I think went above and beyond today by calling Oaxaca’s head office and trying to get an installer and/or a time for an installer.
I am sure if we had gone alone, we would have ended up with the same answers, but might not have gotten the extra effort. Bottom line…we wait again. Telmex in Huatulco is short of installers and they had sent the crews they had, to the out skirts of town to deal with all the complaints and issues caused by the wet summer. As of Monday, there are supposed to be crews in La Crucecita so we might see service Lunes o Martes.
Now, they wanted to know how to contact us to ensure the installer could meet us…but we have no phone line (duh) and no cell phone as we have decided we currently do not need one. Lalo stepped up and gave Christina both his cell number and the number for the jewelry store where he works, Gabriel the Owl. So, Telmex will call there and he will come and check if we are home. If we go out, we will leave a note on the door. What a system!! And we don’t feel bad about his help; because of all the work we did on the translating.
And in Mexico, there is always one piece of info they don’t tell you. The installer is not installing the modem they gave us; he is only installing the phone line. Once the line is installed, it takes from 1 to 7 days for the actual internet package to be activated. Lol We did not know this before and only found out because we had Lalo ask one last pregunta…”as the modem instructions are in Espanol, does the installer assist us?”. It was then that we found out the last tid bit.
But Christina says it will not be a problem, there is a phone number we can call if we need help (where someone “probably” speaks Ingles), or we can come in and talk to her. Ha ha ha.
We thanked her for her help and dropped Lalo off at his favorite comidor (not really a restaurant, but somewhere they make comida…meals). Grabbed my gear for gym and Bex started her workout. She is a machine with these at home work outs!!
I walked by the comidor and Lalo was picking up his 3 items. I probably would have never gone into this little hole in the wall comidor without having someone show me what was going on.
They take corn tortillas and then you get to pick what you want on them, and then they are heated up on a charcoal heated pan. There are three sizes of tortilla and the biggest is probably one meal or possibly enough to share for two.
You choose from the following:
-la grasa cerdo
-queso
-frijoles
-cactus
-piemento verde y cebolla
-carne
-chorizo and papas mixta
-pollo
Not sure about la grasa cerdo (pork grease), but the finished product looked and smelled great. We will try these some time soon.
Hit the gym and on the way I saw this truck unloading.
These are the big, hard plastic, water containers that every Mexican casa has on its roof. Water is pumped up and then gravity fed (our condo has a small booster) to the inside.
We will have several of these at Mojon as we are drawing water from our two wells vs off the Fonatur water lines that they have in town. We will also collect and use rain water in the summer and recycle dish water and laundry water for plants etc.
Anyway, the gym was great (solo…the place was empty) and then Rosa, her nino and myself had a discussion about the important sports in Mexico and Canada as well as the difference between football Americano vs football Canadiense. I have not caught his name yet, but I also introduced him to what snow boarding is. He had NEVER heard about it. Surfing on nieve (snow) is how it was explained, and then I told him about the record 100 feet plus of nieve that Mt Baker once received. He could not believe that fact, or the fact that I cannot speak Espanol.
Rosa is very interested in learning Ingles and every day she shows up with either a question, or the lyrics to a song she will translate. Neil Diamond’s Love on the Rocks and a Bryan Adams ballad have both made their way into the gym.
Walked home and did a quick stroll to a part of la Cruceita I had not been to before. There are a few window frame manufacturers as well as glass and mirror cutters conveniently located next to them. Also found a bigger hard ware store and saw the glass blocks we will incorporate into our villas. I have not sourced them in Canada, but $4 Cdn or $50 pesos seems reasonable, while all the faucets etc are outrageously priced. We have previously been warned about that.
Home, alberca (a more common name for the pool vs piscina) and ta da, here we are…525 pm.
Off to the veggie store, back for la cena (burritos) and then will post this later tonight.
Until manana,
Saludos.
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