Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa: Thursday January 14, 2016 Mercado

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Thursday January 14, 2016 Mercado

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Thursday January 14, 2016

On Monday Cristina & Christian did some last minute shopping.

Tuesday we hosted the Oldies But Goodies dance at Villa San Carlos and were shocked again at the callousness of the gringo population here. This is twice in a row where only HALF of the registered dancers showed up. We only had a total of 41 guests, including about 6 walk-ins, after 70 people had registered to come....

I booked the next dance for Valentines, on Monday Feb 15th, also to avoid Carnaval time. There will be a very blunt email to accompany that announcement, probably tomorrow.

Christian and I did our level best to dance with virtually every woman in attendance and the ladies all indicated that they were very appreciative of the attention. The single guys at the dance must be picky, or shy, because they certainly do not help out much to spread their attentions.

Wednesday was occupied with the last minute details prior to Christian's departure for Colombia on the 11:15 bus. He really is such a good young man and we enjoyed his visit which meant a lot to Cristina.

This morning Cristina wanted to go to the 10 De Agosto Mercado downtown to buy some fresh fish. There were certainly a lot of new gringos floating around with cameras, and I must have looked the same to them as I tried to capture some of the colour and flavour of the place. We went upstairs to the food court where I had a large chicken dinner for $3.50 and Cristina had fried fish for $3.

The sun is on its way back north as my noon shadow shrinks day by day. On or about March 13th my shadow should be negligible as the sun will be right overhead.

I hope you enjoy the photos. That was the day's excitement, Cheers, Al