Friday September 7, 2012

Friday September 7/12 update

I got up early and did the chores before drafting another letter to the Commercial Manager at Etapa Internet.  I told him that we were very disappointed that he thought a service call every month to repair daily interruptions of our connection was OK when they never did solve the problem over 5 months.  I asked him to return the $44.80 installation fee charge to our account by Sept 28^th or my blogs would be fully noted of our experience.  It only takes one person to avoid Etapa to give us the satisfaction that they have lost money on the exchange.

I then caught the bus downtown to deliver the letter to the main Etapa office and enjoyed going by San Blas, Parque Calderon, the flower market, San Francisco.

I kept snapping shots going through El Centro and all the way down to Avenida Solano.  The Solano area was very busy with College and University students getting out for the day.  The new Chinese Restaurant seems to be very close to their opening day.   I wouldn’t doubt if it was this weekend as they were washing the windows as I went by.  

I walked to the Papeleria Monsalves near the soccer stadium to get a new stapler (broke our little one this morning) and a sleeve for carrying documents.

Outside they were selling soccer shirts for team Ecuador which is battling for a spot in the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.  I again managed to get a large size for a whole $5.  It was requested that everyone wear an Ecuador shirt today as they have an important game this afternoon.  There certainly were many yellow jerseys visible everywhere, and I always get thumbs up for wearing one too.  I was also thankful to switch from the hoodie to the jersey because the sun was getting very warm.   I will give Brownie points to the first person who can tell me what is wrong with the two jersey photos….

Next I checked out the big Farmacia near the Mount Sinai hospital to see if they had any humidifiers for Bella, which they didn’t.   So I walked all the way back to Pichincha Bank for some cash then went across the street to catch the #7 to the airport area.

I waited at Kiwi for 20 minutes until their English-speaking employee, Jonathan, returned from lunch.  I then had him hunt to see if they had another new humidifier like the one I had bought previously.  I was actually shocked that they did have one in a box so I grabbed it, and some light bulbs, and caught a cab home.

Tomorrow I have a very busy day planned with three appointments so there probably won’t be any blogs until Sunday.

That was today’s excitement.   Please see all photos at souvenircuenca.blogspot.com.  Hugs to all.