Buenos noches!!
A lot was accomplished
today!! First up was the AM rutina con Max, which included a great walk around
centro y the zocalo.
No need for the 7am
sprinkler show (phew) as when they are not turned on, Max does not seem to
notice. But if it is a windy morning and the trees are blowing in the wind, you
better finish desayunos in a hurry and get the lil’explorer outside quick!!
No wind today and the
morning was cool’ish, but it sure warmed up quick. We have been seeing lows in
the 24,0 grados and highs at almost 34,0 grados…it is going to be a hot
summer!!
No siesta for padre as he
had to meet up with his mecanico, so madre took over at 10am and really had Max
for the complete day.
The two of them had the
siesta, some comida and then were going to hit the parque, but the lil’man let
madre know that he was into other things, so they popped by el gimnasio to say
hola, and then had a great session in the alberca at the CP.
My day? Always fun to
visit Tony’s taller, shop, as there are always a group of hombres hanging
around and chatting it up, and many a taxista stop by for a quick tune up or
advice.
Quite the hub of activity
and everyone wants to check out the gringo and his camioneta, the one with the
6 cylinder turbo charged engine….muy raro here in Huatulco.
Things always change for
the better when I clarify that I am not a gringo, and then all the questions
come flying at me. How much did the truck cost? How expensive are the llanta,
tires? How’s the gas mileage? Why is your español so malo? Ja ja ja
I always bring a Coke for
Tony y padre, and they always appreciate it and treat me well. After changing
the filtro de gasolina as well as crawling under the truck to install the 4
bolt stoppers, Tony is prepared to let me go with out charging me anything.
It doesn’t work that way
for me, so $100 pesos and he is happy.
The filtro de aire was
dirty, and the filtro de gasolina was almost clogged, so by replacing both, we
should see some better gas mileage. If not, I will return and we will run the scanner
on the O2 sensors.
Tony jumped in the
camioneta to take me to the Firestone shop where both he and his padre suggest
I get the tire rotation y alineación, but first we pit stopped at a tienda and
picked up some motor oil for an oil change I need soon.
Muy caro for the synthetic
stuff, but it is good and with the heat here, it is needed. But I just checked
online and 6 litros at Canadian Tire would actually be $20 pesos MORE then I
just paid.
No filtro de aceite at
this tienda so I will grab one from Nissan. I also need to order a few gomas de
horquilla (stoppers?) as well as another filtro de aire. Why another filter
when I have just bought a new one?
The one I bought is the
lower grade one and will not stop as much polvo (dust) as the original one we had
installed. A good tip from Tony. So now I need the part number via mi mecanico in Burnaby and will see if it can even be ordered here. If not...hola to the abuelos in marzo!!
After the oil stop, off to
Firestone and Tony confirmed all the deets. I dropped him off back at his
taller and then went back to Firestone, where I was told it could take 90
minutes and would cost $300 pesos.
A tire rotation, an
alignment and 40 minutes later and I was on my way. The tech said there was
just a minor adjustment and all is good. Phew!!
Home, time for my comida
and then off to el gimnasio. There I see Galdino the patron, owner, hasn’t
found a day staff member yet, and he is manning the counter again.
On miercoles I showed up
at 230pm and he asked me to watch the gym until 3pm when Anita was due to
arrive, and I said sí and he left.
Hoy, he asked me the same
question and I said sure. The only issue? I arrived at 240pm and when I left at
4pm….no Anita. Doph. I walked by the tiangus on my way home, looking for
Galdino as he is sometimes there, but did not see him. I guess I will find out
mañana what happened?
I headed home and found
the familia having alberca time. I headed into the condo to start dinner and
the PM rutina. All good and after a FT con Oma y Opa, some leche and caballo
time, Max used up his 30 minutes con madre and took 5 minutes of my time before
he was lights out.
So, at 830pm, you find me
blogging away, Max sleeping and Bexico hard at work in her oficina. Good news
is that Bex is a few signatures away from having a contract signed and an
agreement for 3 films!! Each film is about a minute long, but will be 45 hours
of work. Cha ching!!
Fotos.
Down this alley live a few perros that Max hears but cannot see.
This is the look of a lil'níno who wishes he could have seen the perros.
So here is what happened prior to this next foto being taken. Max saw a bunch of globos (balloons) affixed to the tienda. He was soooo excited, he dropped his bandera.
He then came running to me and ah ah'd, hoping I would take one. Sorry Max, the tienda was cerrado and padre is NOT about to pinch a globo while in Mexico!!
The almost foto as I almost had a foto of Max in this plastic crate.
And how famoso is Max around Huatulco?
Group rate of $40 pesos.
And another $40...score!! Note the niña watching and wondering why Max is so famoso.
IKEA spring sale.
This hombre works at the smaller tienda de fruta y verdura and here he is making a delivery. All but one of the peeps that works at that tienda are always friendly to us and especially Max.
And look who I found in the alberca when I came home from el gimnasio!!
Mañana? El gimnasio and
hola to some Nascar!! Domingo is Mojon.
Proxima semana? Maybe
Pochutla y Puerto on lunes, we want to take Max to the estancia infantile for a
few hours and he also needs a vacuna on 20 de febrero, the day of mi padres
cumpleaños!!
Misc
Not sad to say that our
downstairs neighbors have packed
up and left. No more smoke and the sound of crying niños.
Ran into Roman at Che. He
said the team did some more cleaning our lot and also said the Mayor of the
town that runs Mojon, was coming down to Mojon for dinner.
Roman is good at greasing
the wheels of office and is going to try and get some $$ for road work, as well
as try and figure out how to clean up all the garbage the dumb a** peeps leave
at exit from the highway and at the entrance to the road to the playa.
Great news all around!!
New word for Max? He is
working on saying ketchup!! He has a libro where the word ker-plunk is spoken
and he likes both words that start with “k”.
Update on the secadora?
Removing the built up lint at the exhaust vent did the charm…all is good!!
Buen fin de semana!!
Marco, Bexico y Max
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