Making Our List
and no, not checking it twice. That would be too easy! Our cupboards are starting to fill up with things we didn’t really want. See our kids begin arriving tomorrow so Mar needs to stock her kitchen. You know what mothers are like when it comes to making sure the kids (both 20 somethings and certainly capable of preparing food themselves) have enough to eat. Anyway, as I was saying, we have a few rather strange things in our cupboards now and are trying to prevent more. Mar was making Rice Pudding for our christmas dinner and the recipe called for vanilla flavored rice milk. We searched Wal-Mart, Chedraui and Soriano’s and came up with what you see in this picture. We were sure we had Rice Milk. Turns out we have rice flour that you add to milk. We also have some veggies we ought that we should take around to the neighbors and see what they are and how do you cook them before they go bad too. So now we make our list, then sit down with it and a English-Spanish dictionary and note the spanish words for things on our list. I mean for things like banannas it’s pretty easy and I can spy cerveza from out in the supermarket parking lot but you can’t live your life on a diet of banannas and beer. Sooner or later you have to move on. Let me just say we’ve had a few suprises over the past few weeks.
So now we making our list and translating it twice.
Yes we’ve been in Mexico now for 5 weeks now, we’ve been on the road for two months today. Seems like a life time ago we left Grimsby.
We notice a change in how people relate to us now. Part of it is we have lost that lily-white color we left with. We’re not the same color as the Mexicans, not even close, but we are brown. Now lily-white tourists stop and ask us directions or advice and often Mexicans open their conversations with “you guys live around here?”
Tags: Family, Mexico, RV Adventures