Viernes, 13 Julio 2012. Bread pudding for breakfast. Carmen did laundry from a couple days,
plus the bedding. Dan of course did his part by helping to hand ring
our the items. Our kitchen sink is a good size for hand laundry.
Next Carmen worked on the blog while Dan walked into the water
office. The bill was hand delivered yesterday by a man walking from
house to house. The bill was higher than we thought it should be
because they are billing on average consumption. The average took in
the time before we looked at the house, when there was a leak at the
meter connection. Dan talked to the office personnel about this and
yes, the bill was corrected to the lowest monthly fee of (about
USD2.25).
Ania had stopped by while we
were hanging out clothes, to see if we were ready to go to her house
for the day yet. We just had too much to accomplish before 11am,
when Frank had said he would pick us up. Ania went off to get a free
facial. Turned out that she was a bit allergic to the products used
and her face was red and itchy when she got to the house awhile after
we did. We took some pork chops with us. We had expected to be here
in Fortín longer so we had too much meat in the freezer. Ania is
such a wonderful cook. She prepared fresh beets (remolachas),
fresh chayote (squash), potato, a vinegar salad of green and
shell beans, rice, bolillos (rolls) and cheesecake for
dessert.
We paid Frank MXP200 to
cover the 7 hours of work David did for us the previous day. While
Ania finished up the meal in the kitchen, Dan and Carmen were in the
den, using their Infinitum broadband connection trying to get
reservations to fly home. We had planned to stop in San Jose on our
way, but it was complicated and it will cost but two dollars more to
fly to Seattle, then do another round trip to San Jose in a couple
weeks. We could have paid for our trip between $300 to $3000 per
ticket. As it turned out, the second half of the trip had only one
seat available that did not require we pay an extra $50. Today we
toted along our little portable printer and printed out our receipt
and flight info.
We'll leave here Monday and bus to the
TAPO bus station in Mexico City. Then a short Metro (subway) ride to
the airport. Just did not have good times out of Puebla. Will stay
in the hotel, we used last time, but a couple blocks from the
airport, and leave by plane at 6:45am. In Mexico one must be there 3
hours before flight time. Then change over in Houston again, passing
thru US Customs there. We're flying United again because of flight
times—the other airlines have us getting into Seattle too late for
a departure to Anacortes the same day. So we arrive in Seattle 4:45
pm, and then will take the airporter on to Anacortes,
Thankfully got home from
Frank & Ania's before the daily thunder storm hit, in time to get
laundry off line. It had been thundering in the distance while we
were enjoying our afternoon meal on their patio. Gracious but the
butterflies here do like to fly close to you. Today's downpour was
just that. Tropical rains are not gentle. At least they seldom seem
to last long. This one stopped in about half an hour. Then another
started up an hour later. We look out our windows to see how long
and from which direction the next storm will be. In Anacortes the
rains come mainly from the southeast. Not so here. It can be from
any direction. Reading time.
