Today I did some work and then took a walk to the bank. After getting money out, I walked to the grocery store. The below photos are of the neighborhood I walked through. It was very pretty and serene. But I wish I would walk through a neighborhood that didn’t have so many hills.
I noticed this pretty mural on my way into the grocery store. I have no clue what it is, but here is a photo of it.
When I got home I worked a little more and enjoyed cookies made by our third child. He cooked them with his class over zoom, they are bananas smashed with chocolate chips and a few other ingredients. They tasted great and he was so proud of himself.
For dinner we are steaks and Mac and cheese. Nothing says you are a parent of small kids when you serve Mac and cheese, with steak.
It is very hot here and we bought a small blow up pool to be out in the garage. We moved the car out and cleaned the garage floor. One of our kids accidentally hit the water nozzle with a bouncy ball and the pipe broke. See the below area that is circled. It completely cracked off.
We had to turn our water off because that little pipe was gushing water from it. We had a plumber out here last week and he said he fixed it. He did not. He also said he would come back “tomorrow”. He did not. He told our landlord that he did come back the next day, and he lied.
My wife explained to me that people are more laid back here in Mexico. She calls it a “mañana culture”. When our dryer was not drying clothes, it took us a couple weeks to get an alliance repairman out to our house. Everyone we called said they’d come “tomorrow” and never did. We ended up pleading with our landlord to bring someone out and they came out. They looked at the dryer, said they reset it and charged me 400 pesos ($20) for their work. They did nothing, and the dryer was still broken. I ended up fixing our dryer. I cannot fix this.
This is where I think American culture is superior. If I call a plumber and they say they will be at our house at a certain time, they will, but not here. So now we have no running water until Saturday. Because that is when this man told our landlord he would be here. If I were a betting man, I would bet he does not show up. 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤 These are still first world problems, we will be fine in the end, I just wish we got better and quicker responses from people here.
We finally put the kids to bed, and I had to take this photo. It’s children 1&3 sleeping next to their pile of books.
Our Family Adventure 