Tuesday Mar 11

Another lovely day in paradise. Today’s temperature, 31 C. I didn’t know paradise was so hot. I hope I didn’t take a wrong turn somewhere.

Today I did all of my marketing this morning. The veggy truck was in town, but the lady wasn’t there, so I had to deal with the veggy man. He told me how to say things properly, el aguacate, and made me repeat it until I had it right. Then when I could say it properly, he told me he didn’t have any avocados today. Hahaha For less then 6 bucks I came away with two huge bags of fresh fruit and veggys. I bought a bag of things that I didn’t know what they were. They look like a tiny kiwi, but not fuzzy. I found one of our friends in town and he said we call them plums and they have a big stone in the middle. The Spanish word is really long and I can’t remember it.

There is a fruit man near the bridge that leads into the park. His stuff is more expensive, but he does have cool weird things, like the baseball shaped fruit that is purple inside but bleeds a white milky juice. Today he had something cut in thick french-fry shaped pieces. I couldn’t understand what they were, but he said that they weren’t sweet, and to eat them he would put salt and lime juice on them. This cracked me up so I got some. Very yummy, but the thing that made me laugh was his lime. It was more yellow than green and when he cut it open it was bright orange inside. No wonder Charles and I can’t figure if we have a lime or lemon tree growing outside of our door. I think there’s a lot of cross mojo-nation going on here.

After I finished my morning’s work I went to the office. I walked a couple km down the shore and found a picnic table in the shade to sit at and relax. Oh man, the beautiful ocean in front of me, the jungle behind. Heaven.

It’s fun watching the new turistas in town and on the beach, now that we are seasoned Cahuitains. There were 2 couples close by shaking a bag of food under the trees to attract the white faced monkeys. Hahaha Monkeys can hear a bag of food rattle from 50 miles away. Monkey tactics consist of loud noises and quick movements to trick you into dropping what you have, then they grab everything and run. Within minutes they had more monkeys around them then perhaps they had anticipated. Turistas!

A couple of monkeys came to check me out cause I was close enough to be of interest and who knows I might have some food they could con me out of. Well about 3 feet from where I was sitting a monkey dropped out of a tree onto the beach. She was carrying a tiny baby monkey on her back. She stopped in front of me for a few minutes, and then wandered back into the trees. Very cool!