We’re having a Thankful day too but not Thanksgiving yet because the turkey is still defrosting. It was the only turkey left in the biggest grocery store in Mérida, the capital city of Yucatan, where turkey is ‘a thing’. We didn’t discover until we got home that it’s smoked and already fully cooked!
Here are a couple more pictures of Kai relishing the sand in the back yard.
Early(ish) morning reflectos. I knew better and did it anyway. The bedrooms are air-conditioned, outside the bedrooms it has been hot and muggy so I had the camera in the oh-so-cool and dry atmosphere of the bedroom and took it straight outside. Bam, Fog. The camera lens fogged up like crazy and this was the only picture I could rescue.
Later, after the camera recovered, I went back outside again and who can resist a morning moon. Not me.
We have many coconut palms with plenty of coconuts. Watch out!
I had a super-fun time going to the local shops in this village of Chuburná. Which reminds me to make a map.
OK, back to the shops! We went to four places, I got to say a few things in Spanish, and everyone smiled and did their very best to understand me. Cynthia’s Spanish is excellent and she could always help me out. It was so fun, the shopkeepers didn’t need to speak English at all although I’m quite sure their English would have been better than my Spanish…
First we went to a little mini-mart where I realized how fun this was going to be. They didn’t have much in the area of fruits and vegetables so the guy there sent us to a fruits and veg place a few blocks away. Across the street from the fruits and veg place was another small store selling chicken feet (attached to the chicken – chicken feet are a special treat for Kai that you can buy dried out and oh boy does he love chicken feet). We were looking for more raw food disinfectant and the woman at the chicken feet place sent us around the corner to a pharmacy. Mission Accomplished!
The fruit place and the pharmacy.
Time to eat! We walked over to a nearby fish place and again, fun. Not as delicious as we might have hoped but fun nonetheless. The seating was really comfortable and the staff were lovely. And if you are eating there, you are welcome to use their pool!
All of this just came to the table. Yikes…
We asked for guacamole and got this. It was the best part of the meal. We also got a fish dish and a shrimp dish – a feast.
Later we took a nice nap and then cooked a dinner of pasta and meatballs and sauteed vegetables. It was delicious!