board members and shopping

Meeting board members
Saturday evening there was a benefit concert at Cuates y Cuetes for a local musician who needs back surgery. We stopped by there for a few minutes before meeting up with Dave. The three of us went next door to Langostino’s to meet Marsha (MysteryMs), Bill (Wills) and Bill’s wife Pat . We just stayed for a drink as we had planned to go to a photo exhibition by another board member, Astrid (todopoderosa). Her show was at Vacas Grill, which is one of our favorite places for a burger. We ate dinner then looked at the photos. Astrid is a whale-watching guide and has taken some fabulous pictures. We met her and her boyfriend Azael (nickname Acey). He is also a tour guide but he does canopy tours.

Lamp shopping
Our friend Deb (pvdeb) lives in Dallas. She has always wanted a pair of Talavera lamps for her living room. She had priced them, but never bought them because she had no way to carry them home. Shipping would cost almost as much as the lamps. She asked us to shop for lamps and bring them back to Texas with us. We had been to the World of Tiles store looking at lamps last month. A very nice sales clerk told us that we could order the lamps with the color scheme we wanted and they would be ready in 3 days. I emailed Deb photos and we discussed colors, designs, etc. Since Marsha had the money for the lamps, we went this week to order them. Well, lo and behold, you can get lamps made to order, but it takes over a month to get them. And, they can’t do dark red, which is a color Deb wanted. So we were back to square one. We found a pair of matching lamps as close to what Deb wanted as possible. They are now purchased, wrapped and ready to go to Texas.