We started out to mail the crutch tips to Joan on Lake Atitlan today. Can I just tell you that the postal service here is just past the pony express stage? The young lady behind the counter (yes only one person) did not even bother to stand up to assist us. She wanted to know if we wanted stamps. Our Spanish was not good enough to get her to understand that we wanted a package, envelope, something, that we could use to mail the small box in. So we left the post office on the hunt for packaging materials. The first paper store only had brown envelopes which busted the minute we put the box inside. We left to find another paper store that might have a different inventory, no luck. We ended up at Mont Blanc, having walked there, where we bought a gift bag that was made of brown craft paper. We cut it up, taped it up, and addressed the box and started back to the post office. It took us about three hours to get this small package ready and then mailed! We can only hope that it reaches Joan. It cost as much to mail the crutch tips as it did to buy them. Don sent Joan a note about the tips and she responded with delight. It will make her life much easier. All together we walked for about 3 1/2 hours, I will say we SAT to eat for maybe 30 minutes. I was tired by the time we arrived back at the house.
Don and I had a quiet evening at home. We spoke to Susan and Donna and of course Nic and the twins by computer. Donna is sick and Nic is home chattering away as it is spring break. The twins are coping with our slow Internet and wait for us to dial back in so that can 'see' us. The system works better if we do not do the video part but that is not good enough for the twins. It is fun to seem them even if it is hard to stay connected.
