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June 30, 2021: Day Nine

Francine worked all day and...well...I did stuff.  Mostly read and I worked on an excel spreadsheet a little bit.  I had every intention of taking a walk to the post office, knowing full well that it closes at 3pm and remembered too late to make it on time.  I also intended to stop someplace else on my way to the post office, but now I've totally forgotten what all else I wanted to get done on that trip.  I did go out this morning to get a coffee from the Oxxo.

It rained a bit, but it seems nice now.  It is much nicer outside than it is in our apartment, despite having every possible ventilation opportunity deployed.

We're finding that we have a rather narrow window of time in which we can go places or do things.  As the work day generally ends around 2pm for Francine, that means it ends when its pretty damn hot out side - and not much is open.  Things seem to close after lunch.  Restaurants seem to get going around 7 or 8 pm but by that time, most of the local market type places are closed.  On top of that, due to Corona, even the restaurants shut down pretty quickly.  I think the normal flow is to go for dinner at a restaurant and then to a cantina (which stay open later and serve drinks and only limited food) to continue the drinking and munching - but the cantinas are all corona closed.  All of the "sights" are definitely closed after 2pm.  So, really, for us right now, it really is just normal life, but in México - oh and without air conditioning.  I think we are both getting used to that as well.  I normally don't like air conditioning, so 90F is not unwelcome for me, but for Francine its a stretch.

We went for a nice walk after work...mostly to things that were mostly closed, like the market.  We had no particular agenda in mind - we really don't want to buy anything despite some of it being quite beautiful, especially the fabric arts.  We hung around and people-watched at the main square.  The cathedral was already closed.  We bar hopped with appetizers, sort of treating restaurants' bars as though they were cantinas, minus the music.

Main square of Mérida
During dinner, it rained quite a lot and the weather changed quite a bit.  It is now even cooler outside than it is on our apartment.

And so ends, day nine.

Steps:  7,018


**Note the $35.79 "other" expense was for international roaming data for my mobile phone.
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Location: Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

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