Cuenca Updates: Friday May 25, 2012

Friday May 25/12 update

Bella was off to do chores and then headed for her bridge game at Bettye’s. She was still really stuffed up so the bridge game must be really important to her, not to let the other ladies down.

I caught the #15, went past the Pumapongo inca ruins and hurriedly got off the bus when it veered off the normal route within a block of my destination. I was not aware they had closed the road to do some digging at Parque De La Madre.

I met Chris downtown for lunch and we had opted for a donair meal at the Persia Pipa but it wasn’t open so we went to the Taj Mahal. They had the same thing they called Sharma, I think, and it was excellent.

Then we went to San Francisco market and picked up a $4.50 switchblade, then went to Almacenes Espana. Chris put down some extra deposit for all the appliances they had bought there and got the agreement of the owner that the balance would only be paid after delivery and installation. Smart man, that Chris.

We wandered through a few shops and Chris stopped at a health food store run by gringos. I saw a tiny bag of unshelled sunflower seeds for $1.50. I thought everything was way overpriced so I just told Chris I was headed to the camera store across the street and across from Santo Domingo.

While Chris was getting a healthy $3.50 ugly green drink, I was getting 90 photos printed for $22.50…. More on that tomorrow.

Chris had to do something at the Vega Pottery studio so we hopped the #28 only to find it closed. Today is a holiday celebrating the independence day of Ecuador so a few places were closed and the rest of the population was outside enjoying the sunshine.

We walked part way back and stopped at the small park that has that beautiful metal dragon to take a few shots. Even Chris had his camera out getting different angles. Just as we were about to leave this brother and sister came in and started feeding popcorn to the minnows so we stayed and took a few more shots.

We then grabbed a cab to Chris’ place as the ladies were finishing up their bridge game, Bella was apparently having a good bridge day but it was reported that she made her first error of this decade. Everyone mark their calendars please.

We stayed for a wonderful chili supper with salad followed by homemade ice cream. I was having trouble focusing, courtesy of the tequila that Chris had poured me, but we all survived and a good time was had by all.

Enjoy the pics. That was today’s excitement. Hugs to all.