July 19-21, 2021: Days 28-30

For the most part, days twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirty were all pretty much just working during the day and walking around looking for dinner after 7pm or so. We stop working around 4pm, but honestly, its just unpleasantly hot outside, so we tend to watch a little TV or read or swim in the pool until the rain looks like its passed and then out we go.

Francine has pretty much at her limit with regard to Mexican food. This place is FULL of Mexican restaurants!! (Who would have ever seen that coming!) I can see her point a little. Its very good, but its very redundant. To me, its sort of like Italian food that way, but I am prohibited from saying that in pubic. Joking aside, I can understand that if you don't like corn tortillas, or bread made of corn, this place could get a little tedious because just about everything comes with or is made of some kind of corn. I like it and even I'm heading toward overload with it.

Our expenses perked up for two reasons. First, I managed to incorrectly book our hotel, ending up with a two day gap (no place to stay), so we had to pay for that. Second, we seem to be eating very indulgently - not so much by volume but by cost. This might be a side effect of avoiding local food.

Paseo 60 food court.

We took the suggestion of someone we met who recommended this mall sort of place called Paseo 60. It was only a few blocks from the hotel. We went twice in these past couple days. This is a newly opened venue that has more or less a food-court kind of setup with six or seven food places indoors, accompanied by a giant courtyard with outdoor seating. There is live music in the courtyard (at least there was the two times we went.) There are also fancier restaurants lining the perimeter of the courtyard with table service. We had actually walked by the Paseo a few days ago when we got here, but decided from the outside that it looked too much like a mall for us, so we kept on walking. But with the suggestion to try it in-hand we did and it was very nice, but/and pretty up-scale.

Besides that - a whole lot o' normal life - there's not much going on.

And so end days twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirty.

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