First of all...meet Ghetto Claus. The Americans put on a Christmas bazaar and of course it wouldn't be Christmas without a skinny 5'5'' man handing out candy canes. This guy couldn't keep his beard or hat on to save his life and his dark hair and black 5 o'clock shadow kept showing. At least he was a tri-lingual Santa right? I tried to get my photo taken with him, but you know how kids are. Besides, the guy was probably my age and it would have been weird to sit on his lap.
Next comes, Mexican Night! The food that is. I found these taco shells this week and upon closer inspection I see they are product of the USA, and not only is everything written in English it's also from El Paso, Texas, 45 minutes from where I am from! It was crazy! I paid no attention to the Arabic sticker on it, hoping it wouldn't be a warning of sorts. Have you guys heard of Casa Fiesta brand in America?
I also bought the beans. I love refried beans and these are quite tasty. Also from El Paso, TX. Now, if only we could start getting tortillas here!
The last couple of days we have had really low water pressure making it difficult to take warm showers because there isn't enough pressure to turn on the bhuta gas heater. Well today it was cut off altogether so we got a buzz from our concierge informing us we need to bring our buckets to fill up with water. Here is everyone frantically filling up their buckets as if we are in some sort of drought and there won't be enough water to go around. I wasn't sure if they knew something I didn't so I got our buckets and went downstairs too.
Cody carrying our water upstairs. Mostly, we wanted to be able to flush the toilets because, ewww, can't let that back up.
In other apartment news, this is the store that has opened since we moved in here. See the "Residence" sign, that's our door where we go in. As if a huge orange store wasn't enough they added this balloon too. Pretty huh?
3 comments:
loved the water bucket story. amazing how diff life is overseas, huh? :)
Enjoyed the post ya'll. I haven't heard of this Casa Fiesta brand, but I could have missed it too. Hope they have something cool at Microchoix!
Paul
Carrie....I actually have heard and ate Casa Fiesta brand stuff-my sister loves it!!!
in regards to the buckets....remeber the summer we were there and you went to the restroom in the M's house that was moving??? Remeber our training from Kansas kicked in and we remembered how to flush the toilets with a bucket of water....wow....i remember that just a little to clearly! love ya gal~~~
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