On the hunt ...

GALLAVANTING: It's hard to believe that today is already our 5th day here! Our Mexican mission for today was to pick up a few things we needed. A couple of the items proved to be entirely elusive!!

1. Toaster ... they provided one in our condo but it doesn't work. We looked for one yesterday, to no avail, at the Mega store. We were convinced we'd be able to find one at Walmart ... but alas ... no. I guess the locals favor tortillas over toast , so toasters aren't stocked on the shelves here. Oscar, the concierge at Walmart, assured us we could get one at "Liverpool" (which we learned is the Mexican version of Macy's). And, well, Oscar was absolutely correct. The problem was that it was a glossy, red enameled version ... clearly very upscale in the world of toasters priced at 8900 pesos ... which is nearly $63 CAD!! 😲 And so .... we were told to try another grocery store called Soriano. It was too hot to walk all the way over today ... so ... the only thing that will be toasty today is the tourists! 😉

2. We ran out of coffee cream today. We didn't expect it to be a problem to replace .... but .... we had no luck with finding cream either. We stopped at no less than 5 places and could not find any. We finally settled for something that might work (Pookie can you tell me what it is?) .... but .... I'll get back to you tomorrow morning! It's time for cool drinks now instead!

GIGGLES: Which brings me back to our game of Cut throat Coaster Collecting. I successfully pulled into the coaster collection lead by purchasing a 4 pack of purple rubber mesh placemats at Walmart yesterday. I cut them up into 48 coasters. Finny only has 4 so far ... 😏. I don't expect my amigos are going to let me walk away with the win this easily! I'll keep you posted on this as well!

GRATITUDES: We also checked out the Municipal Market .... got some potatoes and green beans to serve aside our roasted pollo ... and ... some fresh mangos for our smoothies in the morning! The markets are always so amazing .... we saw some plump prawns and are planning to get them for another day!

And then, we opted to head home to our palapia to escape the heat and dip into the pool. All in all, it was a nice relaxing day that filled our spirits despite our lack of success in finding things. Perhaps tomorrow? 😊Meer informatie