Round Two at the 'bodega' a.k.a. our version of Wal Mart. We left the apartment early today to purchase the things we forgot to get yesterday. This time we had a list, a dictionary and a plan so things worked out a lot better. It still took us ALL morning to get the job done. We needed a skillet, tea pot, and a soup pot. We came home with 2 of the 3 since we did not go back and pick up the bigger pot for our veggie soup. So we will have just enough soup for two this evening because I am not going back out today. We learned that perhaps Mondays at the first of the month and perhaps around the 15th of the month is not a good time to try to shop--payday. Our most important need was a pump for our very large bottle of water. Yesterday we could not find it but today it nearly jumped off of the shelf. We have to do everything with bottled water including brushing our teeth.
We shopped for our vegetables in the farmers market where we found onions, tomatoes, zucchini, broccoli, etc. as well as some tangerines. We can eat anything we can peel or cook or disinfect (wash). I did not see celery but I suppose there is some if I look hard enough. I was not brave enough to purchase meat. I would like to talk to someone (an ex-pat) for information about meats before buying them. We found a smaller market that is much better organized that we will visit for a good part of what is needed as soon as we have our 'kitchen' functional.
As today is suppose to be a day of rest I am going to get that started because there is no cook here -- just me. I do however, have a dish dyer in resident and perhaps a trainee in veggie washing and slicing. More about how that works out later.
