Our first week in Bucerias

We have been getting settled in to our house. Despite the fact that our car was stuffed full, the vast majority of our household goods will arrive in a few weeks. We have been sorting out things we brought for others. A steering wheel for our neighbor’s Ford Explorer was the most unusual thing we brought. We met Brenda, Dave and Linda and Ira Horowitz at CyC Friday. We had sugar free pancake syrup and other goodies for Brenda and a book for Ira.
Denny and his wife Barbara came over Friday and Denny worked on our Star Choice satellite system. It hasn’t been working and he had to come look at it. It had to be taken away to the receiver and dish hospital. Long story short, one part was shorted out and had to be replaced. Denny came through with flying colors and we were able to watch Desperate Housewives, which almost made up for us missing Boston Legal.
On Wednesday we went to Telmex to sign up for high-speed internet service. We already have a phone, so this was an add-on. The first employee we spoke to did not speak English. She had the guard help translate, but that wasn’t overly helpful. I did talk to the one person there who does speak English to make sure we had signed up correctly. We were told that it would take 3 business days to be ready, which would be Monday. They gave us our modem and away we went.
On Friday, I got a call from Prodigy. After asking to speak to an English-speaking tech, it was unclear why they had called us, but I did find out we were ready to go. I first tried connecting with the desktop computer but need a new driver for it. We did get online with the laptop. I will now figure out how to get the correct driver and also how to get my wireless router to work.
We don’t have a washing machine yet so we took our clothes to a lavandaria. Last winter we used Splash, near the Sheraton. Probably we went there 10 times total. We dropped the laundry off Thursday with one of the employees there. On Friday when we returned to get it, Leticia, the owner, had my bag of laundry out before I even got into the store. She not only remembered us, but remembered my first name as well.
After reading on the All Vallarta board about Brando’s at the Marina, we decided to check out the ribs there. On the menu, ribs were 79 pesos. I was glad I knew to ask about the special, which was the same plate of ribs for 49 pesos. The ribs and fries were very good.
Another day we ate at Vikingo’s Hamburgers on Madero. They sell 3 different sizes of burgers. We got the medium, and it was huge!
We have managed to get to the beach and also to the Krystal to swim. The weather has been hot and humid, but apparently cooler than it has been. We have been trying to get by without air-conditioning. The dogs are getting settled in as well. They like to walk up our street. There is little traffic there so they can just wander in the street. They don’t like being in the backyard very much, especially when we close the iron security gates.
Altogether it is very quiet in our neighborhood. The trash truck comes by Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. One in a while a water truck or a gas truck goes by. We haven’t seen many vendors yet.
Today we ventured down to Fidencio’s and met Deb, Jennifer, Ira and Linda for a nice visit on the beach. Tonight the weather seems to have cooled off just a little so maybe we won’t need the AC tonight.