Hola!! Welcome to Jueves, Thursday.
It was another fun day in paradise. Bexico had a busy day working on her work, both creating and bidding for on line projects. Her Jueves starts early as she is at yoga for 8am.
Me? Up at 830am and then piddled around until I left for the gym at 1130am. On the way to the gym I saw these guys setting up a tent.
The tent was to be used for a celebration at this construccion/cement store.
I am not sure what the celebration was for, but they were sprucing up the store and the lot out back.
Next to this store is the llanteria (tire repair) that I have previously blogged about.
As you can see, they do all the work outside, with the green form in the middle background, being where they soak the tire to find the hole. This llanteria is a whole lot nicer then the one we went to in Mazatlan!!
Continuing on, I saw this taxi.
It is local, Bahias de Huatulco, but no one I know can tell me where the sitio of Huatulquenos is.
Had a great session at the gym, both mi escolar as well as mi workout. Lots of bench pressing, good for the pecho (chest), not to be confused with the pechuga (breast) of the pollo.
As for escolar de Espanol…manana voy a ir a Puerto Escondido. Tomorrow I go to Puerto Escondido. I was asked a question that I did not understand, so I asked Rosa to escriber and her is what she wrote. Cuando llegan tus padre y madre a Huatulco? The answer was Martes Noviembre 16…when do my M&D come to Huatulco.
The word for teacher is either maestro or maestra and after much debate, tight muscles are tenso el musculo vs firme el musculo.
The gym is a great place to chat it up and I seem to be asked a lot of questions about words in Ingles as well as have phrases in Espanol just handed to me. If you see an amigo, you can ask “que honda?” which is the less formal way of saying como estas?
There is a lot of slang and it is sometimes tough to keep up. Also dual purpose words (just like Ingles) as I learned a banco is a bank, a bench as in the gym, a stool such as a bar stool as well as a work bench in banco de trabajo. Phew.
Popped in at the store (Gabriel the Owl) and an hour later (yikes) I was on my way home. The boys are not buys this season and it weighs on them. We talked marketing but they are restricted by lack of marketing $$, a landlord who is not the most business savy, as well as “rules” put on them by the business community and a few people who seem to have some control of things.
Chatted up a few cross promotion ideas with the store and the restaurante in the same building…will see what happens. But even the idea that they like, pens with their name on it, seems to take forever due to Mexican attitude of manana as well as Huatulco being small and not all these services are available. Oh well, all I can do is offer my help and seek first to understand the culture and way of doing things before expressing opinions or ideas.
Home by 3pm and then we had a float in the alberca. Amazing as the seasons change. The pool is now cool to the touch and it is fully in shade by 4pm vs the 6pm we experienced when we first arrived. (yes the clocks have changed)
We decided we needed a blanket/bed spread for the room M&D will use when they come, so we added it to our shopping list for the day. We headed out on our walk and took these photos.
This guy is selling a ton of candy from his covered rickshaw.
This next photo is from an advertisement for a rodeo and a singing competition between two groups on Sabadao 20. It is going to be held in Santa Cruz….fun time for M&D!!
Here is the closest paleteria to our condo…where we pick up Bexico’s limon paletas.
This is one of many local buses. It states on the side of the bus “urban y urbano” and “desarollo turistico” means development tourists…Tangolunda primarily.
Here is the internet site we used to go to before we found Blue, and where Bexico would go if she had a few hours of work to accomplish. They charge $10 pesos/hour and in comparison, we pay $500 pesos/month for our phone line and internet.
We went to the big textile store/shop, where they are using the looms right out front and making the table clothes, bed spreads etc right there. They wanted $600 pesos for a queen size colcha (bed spread) that can also used as a blanket. We decided to keep looking and found another textile shop directly across from the Panificadora (bakery).
colcha so we moved on. Before we left, I asked about a huge and beautiful wall hanging, and it’s cost was $9000 pesos and it took uno hombre 3 meses (months) to manufacture it.
They did not want you to take photos inside, but I took this one outside of another wall hanging. It is a Picasso style, all hand loomed, (?) and was for sale at $6000 pesos. Hmmmm….
We picked up our French stick for la cena (chili) and then off to the central Mercado for one last look.
Bexico found a stall where they sold colchas and asked how much for queen. The hombre said $500 pesos until the mujer (lady) saw that we were gringos and said $900 pesos because it was large. So…we left.
As we were headed to the salida (exit), we saw another stall and went in. Here we were greeted by a young senorita who was watching over the family stall. Her name was Bibi (?) and was eager to help as well as try some Ingles and Espnaol with us. We truly enjoyed the chat and she even brought her friend over for a laugh as they asked our names, ages, if we had any hijo etc.
They had only one style/color of queen size and it was only $580 pesos, but we did not like the colors that much. She told us the next size down was matrimonial and we laughed as we told them we were no espousa y espouso…but diez ano as nobia y novio. Any way, they had lots of styles and colors and these are only $420 pesos…but we were not sure it would fit.
We told them we would go home and return, and I don’t think they believed us, but we went home, measured what would work and did return. The matrimonial is the perfect fit at 210 cm wide. We did not do any bartering, which is a common practice, because we liked Bibi and for the $100 pesos we might have saved, the $9 Cdn was worth it.
So, when you come to visit, here is what your colcha will look like.
The Bitts and Bono do not come with the colcha!!
Phew…busy day. One of our blog followers told me that I was the busiest unemployed guy he knew. Lol
La cena was great and after posting this blog, it will be time for mi Coca Light!!
The same blog follower reminded me about the Magic Jack. When first told about this device, I was apprehensive, as I had seen it on late night tv and the infomercials were a bit cheesy.
Well, we bought one and I am a believer. The device plugs into the USB port on the computer, then you plug your regular phone line into the device and then you make your call. We have a Canadian phone number for the MJ and when I called Vancouver and Maple Ridge last night, it was almost as clear as being in the same town. And once you pay for the MJ ($30 one time cost), the one year subscription ($20) and for the Cdn number ($10), the calls are free.
Our current paquete (plan) has us being charged $2.39 pesos/minute for a call to Canada, which is only 20 cents Cdn…so we only need to use the MJ for 150 minutes a year to pay for itself.
We have gone from no one being able to contact us (except if we went out to check email), to blog, email, phone and MJ….lol
Manana is our trip to Puerto, so there might not be a blog update if we return too late.
Hasta luego to all.
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