The weekend was not as quiet and restful as we had hoped it would be. We managed to use up all of Saturday and Sunday as hard as we used up the rest of the week. Since we were out of cloths we gathered everything we could to take a trip to the laundry. We even stripped the bed and washed them as well. I located a broom and dust pan and cleaned up our space as well as the hall and bathroom. It is the least I can do to help Hortensia. The floors are tile or marble depending on the room. The house itself is clean enough to be healthy but would not win any prizes.
We had no place to hang a wet towel or our sweaters/jacket so we contrived one from one or two of the shops here. We bought a bit of cord and Don tied loops down the cord and we hung that from the curtain rods. Now we have a place to hang a few things but we mainly live out of our suitcases. Hortensia was impressed when she saw it. The other room they rent has a wardrobe (a.k.a closet) in it. I would not change our room just for the closet. We have an ´L´shaped room so it works as well as you could expect in a camping situation.
Last night Hortensia stopped in our room for something and noticed our suitcases on the floor. She then scavenged a table and carried it into our room. We decided we need some place to sit and write so we turned it into a small double desk. It was a great idea but the house is just not quiet enough to allow any studying to be done. We have an additional touch lamp that provides a bit more light but let me tell you these people have a ´thing´about using enough light to see by----anywhere.
After class today, which Patty and I spent at the local Mercado, Don and I ate lunch of a really good potato salad, a thin red salsa and the inevitable tortillas. The we took a shuttle bus to the Hyper Paiz (large mall) to buy some snacks and clothes hangers for our ´closet´. We picked up laundry and re- made the bed. We stopped at McDonald´s for a snack of chicken nuggets to help fill in the cracks. Hortensia makes sure all of the people in the house have a cup of liquid to drink with every meal. She brought up a cup of tea and that is how she saw our nifty closet.
Dinner was a bowl of cut up fruit supplement in our room with peanut butter and crackers. We ended the day by working on this blog at Xelapages.
Now my day is done and I have run down. It is time to return to the house for a cold ´hot´shower and another night of sleep. Things are better now that the pageant is done. Yeah!
