The new Air bnb seems good so far. The apartment has a rooftop that is perfect for watching tge sunset. On Tuesday night we went up with glasses of rose.
There is a pool but it’s pretty small. Not for laps, but good for drinking wine.
On Monday we moved to our 4th apartment in a month. This one I think is a keeper. At least I hope so because we are here for a month. I didn’t take photos of each of them.
1. Tulum. This one was perfect and amazing. I could have lived here forever. But, it was far from everything and the taxi mafia charged a miniminimum of $25 per ride.
2. North Merida. This one was a little small but good. The only problem was it was in what felt like the suburbs. The AC also sounded like someone was inside it trying to escape.
3. Cento. This one was good except there were no real windows. They were all frosted. Also it was a loft so the bed was up stairs and the hand railing was an industrial cable. I felt like I was mountain climbing.
One of my main complaints about Panama, was the lack of corn on the cob. On Sunday we were able to find street corn which was good.
We started the day checking out another church. This one looked more European inside.
We finally sat in one of these iconic chairs. Although it was in the sun, so we only sat here for one minute.
Then we went to check out this historic hotel. We read you could go in and look around. But, the staff must not have gotten the memo because they kicked us out.
We also toured a museum that was the original house of the main conquistador. It was a beautiful house but the story behind it was harsh.
On Saturday we went to see the three arches in Merida. There used to be eight, but there are three still standing after five hundred years.
The second arch had mini arches top walk through. People must have been much shorter back then.
On our way to the third arch we were distracted by a church.
I love the statue above the door. I think he’s supposed to be blessing all that enter, but he loojs to me like he is saying, “Go Away.”
On our way to the third arch we also got distracted by churros. We decided to save tge last arch for another day.
On Friday Jeff and I set off for fancy coffee. The streets in the centro are so colorful I wanted to stop and take a picture of every door.
We made it to our destination in about half an hour.
From the outside we couldn’t tell if it was even open, but inside was really cool.
They had a menu of specialty drinks that rivaled the Starbucks Roasteries.
I ordered the top one. It was good but reminded me of orange and chocolate. You could put them together, but they are better on their own.
On Thur we caught up on things. Jeff worked, I had a Spanish lesson and my writer’s group.
We also met with an immigration lawyer. We are currently here on tourist visas and have another 5 months. We aren’t sure yet how long we’ll stay, but wanted to find out what our options are. It sounds like getting our visa extended isn’t too complicated. We are moving to another Air bnb next week to check out another neighborhood.
The above picture I took a few days ago while walking around town. You can tell because Jeff is wearing long pants. It’s much hotter now. Long pants are no longer an option.
Wednesday was pretty quiet. We checked out a neighborhood, rode the bus, got overheated and stopped for a juice. I didn’t take any photos yesterday but these are funny signs from a few days ago.
We think they say “barf” the way we say “arf.” Both the store and the sign are advertising dog food. So they either say it differently, or feed tgeir dogs some real gross stuff.
On Tuesday, Hector, the best most honest Uber driver ever drove to our Airbnb to return my wallet. I had somehow dropped it in his car the day before. I took this picture of a door while I waited for him.
We also learned how to take the bus. I like to think of myself as a public transpotation expert, but the bus was confusing.
Waiting for the boys was fine, but when we got on we couldn’t figure out what to use as a ticket. The bus has an app where the ticket is on your phone. We waved our phone at everything. Then the driver took my phone to help but couldn’t figure out how to use my phone. We felt terrible since we were holding up an entire bus load of people. We got off the bus not knowing it was going to wait for us to figure it out.
A really nice man who just happened to walk by showed is what to do. We for neck on the waiting bus and I looked up to apologize to all the passengers but they were all smiling and told us not to worry.
Once we were on it was great. These are new electric air conditioned buses. It was a fun way to see more of the city.
Yesterday we changed AirBnB’s. I didn’t take pictures of the move which is why there is this picture of Jello.
During the Uber drive between AirBnBs I dropped my wallet in the Uber. I didn’t realize my wallet was missing until hours later where I went through all our luggage and thought I was going crazy.
We finally gave up looking, put holds on pur credit cards and went grocery shopping.
This store was crazy for Jello.
By bedtime I had accepted the loss of my wallet when we got a text from Uber. Our driver found my wallet and had it for us!
Today we’ll get it from him and give him a 5 star review. Just kidding. We already did give him a good review but we may buy him beer or something.
On Sunday we took an Uber to the beach. This one is only 20 minutes from our Air BnB. It was beautiful and not that crowded. A lot of cruise ships stop here, but not on Sundays.
We started at a restaurant for breakfast nachos.
We walked along the beach. We had hats, water and sunscreen but still got really hot.
We stopped for lemonade and guacamole and chips.
And then we went back to our Airbnb.
