Another work day, again sort of capped by nothing opening much before 7pm and most things rolling up around 10pm - leaving a very narrow window for us to do much.
So, this morning, we jumbled things up a bit. The rain from last night meant that the weather had turned pleasantly cool (83F), we went for a walk to the post office. (Again, not sure if its meteorologically possible to be in excess of 100% humidity, but I think its working on it!). This was our third walk to a post office to try to mail my mother's birthday card, which we bought about a week ago. We even carried it to Campeche with us. First post office was closed, despite the website saying it was open. Second trip turned out not to be a post office. Third time's a charm, right? Wrong. This office (despite being in a strip mall) only handled mail - did not sell stamps. You would not be alone in asking why one might want to have a post office that doesn't sell stamps! On the plus side, at least it was open when the website said it would be. The nice, non-stamp selling man told us where we could actually buy stamps, but it would have taken Francine away for too long, so she went back home and I set out on a dual mission to mail this damn card and get a snack for lunch. Mission accomplished on both fronts - plus an added benefit of learning that an "empanada" in Mérida is pretty much a sealed-up, deep-fried taco. Good, but not a real empanda like the Jamaican or Puerto Rican or Spanish ones.
On our trek for dinner, we walked to one restaurant. We we got there, we decided it was way too fancy and ended up at our back up plan which was across the street. We did not know this when we set out, but this place has a happy hour kind of deal: 5 beers and a giant plate of steak nachos for $15 or so, including the tip. And dinner was served! And lest you think it shabby food, I found it on a list on a website of the 62 best restaurants in Mérida! Pinkies up. We had our choice of five Mexican beers: XX Lager, XX Amber, Sol, Indio, Tecate (Light). We went with Indio, just to be different. For me, it is a rather sweet beer, as beers go. (Think: Heineken, but amber.) I did a little research while I was there to find out that the brewery that makes all of those beers is owned by Heineken. In Ecuador, the two big brands were owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev. In Florida, we would generally try to keep beer local, but here, we're having trouble with the words they use to describe the beers. The national beers are all kind of the same, but we are considering trying the upstart array of craft brews here but don't know where to start. Plus, with most places not serving draft beer due to corona limitations, sampling/flights are not possible.
After "dinner" we walked to an ATM (which are few and far between I might add) and two marquesitas. In terms of marquesitas, I stuck to original but Francine ventured wide and asked for cheese, nutella and a banana. Unfortunately, he was out of bananas, so cheese and nutella. Did not disappoint.
Work, eat, walk around. Sort of boring, but a little bit less so than had we stayed in Florida. Next week is beach-bound vacation with some overflow work smattered in - but at least it will be air conditioned and at the beach.
Steps: 11,451
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