Agua left over from some sidewalk cleaning...perfect for Max to jump into.
Ok, so how was the road trip to Salina
Cruz and back? Long día for all 3 of us!!
We left at what would normally be Max’s
siesta time, thinking a nice nap in the camioneta would leave him refreshed for
some prowling at Sam’s Club and Walmart.
Ahhhh…no. He did fall asleep, but after
40 minutes or so, Max was awake and not so happy to be in his silla.
Now madre, being the expert traveler
with niños, had packed all the distractions needed and was working her way
through them, when Bubba noticed in the rear view mirror that Max “Vomito” Van
was doing his thing in the silla.
Not again I said to myself as I pulled
over. Yup…hola to a change of clothes and the need to pull the car seat out
again.
I took Max to the tailgate where he is
used to partying it up after being sick. He dances on the gate in his playera
and sandals and waves at all the autobuses y coches that drive by.
Trooper madre held in the gag reflex
and cleaned the seat to the best of her ability…aren’t we glad we brought along
the can of air freshener?
Back on the road and it took about 2.5
hours for us to get to Salina Cruz, with the pit stop.
Found out that there is a new way to
get into Salina Cruz, through the tunnel that takes you right down town, in the
complete opposite direction of where we wanted to be.
No crisis and we found the Walmart y
Sams.
Max had fun prowling, but was now
hungry, so we blasted through Walmart and sat down at the Sam’s restraurante…it
does NOT beat the dogs at Costco!!
We managed to score a one day pass into
Sam’s, Max pushed the cart around as we loaded up, and then another pop into
Walmart as we needed 30 minutes for Bex’s Dramamine to take effect!!
Max managed to fall asleep…until I had
to slam on the brakes to avoid flying over a tope. Doph. We were an hour from
home and Max made sure we were aware of EVERY minute.
He was on unhappy camper and madre
ended up solving the issue with Cheerios. The same cereal he currently will
have nothing to do with during our desayunos. Hmmmm.
Made it home in 2 hours…sin vomito…and
I dropped madre off at Los Portales so she could get la cena ordered for us.
Max and I drove to the CP and parked the car and then huffed it back to the
restaurante.
Perfect timing and moments later, la
cena was there. No cooking and no need to lavo los platos!! After our día…a
well needed break.
Good eats and then home for the tina
time and the Whisperer took 5 minutes to get the lil’man asleep…and then joined
him for a cat nap!!
And that was our martes.
Was it worth going to Salina Cruz? At
the end of the día, we would have to say mas o menos…more or less. Full tanque
of gas and that was paid for by the savings on items we bought that we can find
here in Huatulco, but were cheaper in Walmart o Sams.
Did we find some items we cannot find
in Huatulco? Yes, but sports bras for Bex and some seasonings for Chef Bubba
was not really a wow. But...I am sure the Senor Cara de Papa (Mr Potato Head) for Bex...ooops, Max...was worth it!!
We did not find any clothes for Max and
that was disappointing. We will stick to Yogis and the tiangus and its $30 peso
muscle shirts!!
Then throw in the time it took to get
there, the unhappiness of our hijo and then the unhappiness of his padres
cleaning up vomito and then having to remove the niño silla and reinstalling.
Long and short…we won’t be doing that
again anytime soon. Probably stick to the hour drive to Pochutla, taking a walk
and then driving the next hour to Puerto.
As for our miercoles. Happy to report
that we all had a good sleep last night and our day was back to normal!! A
great AM rutina y siesta, madre y Max had fun at the playa and Bubba managed to
hit the gym and grab some sol at the alberca.
Good dinner…we forgot to look for
Cheddar in Walmart and were in the queso aisle in Sams when I had the ah ha
moment. Grabbed 3 more blocks and celebrated by having some more burritos
tonight!!
Currently 730pm and Bex is having first
go at leche and seeing if the lil’man wants to sleep. The Whisperer will take
over in 30 minutes.
Photos.
A few fotos from ayer...Max checking out more water meters.
Max's autobus radar has been triggered!!
Today Max was helping rearrange some furniture outside the pescaderia.
And in the zocalo, Max is trying to make his own trail to the sprinklers.
Ah padre...I am stuck.
No sprinklers...just un arbol grande!!
Mañana? It was maybe going to be a
Mojon día, but after the go go of ayer and putting the house back together hoy,
we are going to have a tranquilo día. I do need to track down an a/c repairman
as the unit in Max’s room is wacked. Stay tuned.
Misc...just received our latest CFE (electric) bill and we dropped another $300 pesos from the bill before. Phew. Still waaaay more then I would like us to be paying...$3500 pesos for 2 meses...but most of it is the air con for the lil'hombre, and the fact that we are no longer government subsidized...doph.
Have a great jueves.
Marco, Bexico y Max
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