Uaymitun 2024-Blog Post #3 “What should we do today!”

Welcome to this blog post that captures highlights from our 2024 Winter in Uaymitun!

This post will include highlights of a couple of excursions to favourite haunts!

We have enjoyed visiting La Picuda in Telchac Puerto and seeing José for many years! Being adventurous, Dave & Carolyn agreed to come along for a new experience!

After consuming 3 orders of Shrimp, done various ways, and 1 order of Chicken Fajitas, we went for a walk on the pier!

We enjoyed talked with a young couple from Mérida who were fishing on the pier! They practiced their English and we practiced our Spanish!

On our way back to the beach house, we had to made one other important stop!

I just have to include another sunset pic! Given our frequent Él Norté storms so far this season, we haven’t had many “sit on the beach” evenings!

We are constantly being surprised by the amount of building going on along the Costera! However, we were really surprised to finally, after passing by many times, there’s a new liquor store, Roby, beside the OXXO. While it’s not quite open yet, it wasn’t even there when we left last spring!

In talking with a few of the local folks, apparently the Chicxulub parochial Church “Nuestra Señora De La Asunción” was in danger of collapse, so it’s being replaced!

A bit closer to our beach home in Uaymitun, the construction is never ending…

Since we’ve arrived, we had been to the Bodega Aurrera and Soriana in Progreso, and the Costco, Chedraui and Walmart in Mérida shopping.

It was now time to go to the Soriana in the Altabrisa Mall… of course, the PF Changs there is also an excellent reason to go to that mall!

After our successful shopping excursion, we headed upstairs to PF Changs!

Yes, the Lettuce Wraps were delicious… the best one’s anywhere are found here in Mérida! We also enjoyed other fav’s: Mongolian Beef and Crispy Honey Chicken! Yumm!

The day after our Altabrisa run was very trying! I awoke at 4:30 AM to horrific winds battering our bedroom windows. The power had already been out for an hour or so at that point!

The winds continued howling all day… no power, no morning coffee! I drove down the Costera to the OXXO as I knew they had coffee vending machines. Enroute, near Km 13, already there were 3 CFE (power company) trucks attempting to rectify a downed pole!

So there was power west of there into Chicxulub but none our way. Our next trip into town to pick up a few things at the Bodega Aurrera showed 5 trucks working.

The power didn’t come back on until around 5:30, just as we were cooking our supper on the gas stove… and it went off/on again for short periods another 3 times before it settled down. We lost a few items in our freezer unfortunately.

In a similar vein, a few doors down from us, the CFE (local power company) had hired tree trimmers to cut away branches that might impact the power and telecom cables during storms. Well, the workers got somewhat carried away there and were lopping off very large tops of trees! You guessed it… the dropped a very large branch onto the wires and took them out! Our friends, Dave and Jeanette were without the Internet for 4-5 days until they came to fix the damage.

While the Natural Thangs market in Chelem features local food vendors on Mondays, the session on Thursday has more artisan vendors. We made a trip up with Dave and Carolyn to see and Elaine was able to find a nice sundress and some cloth coasters for the table. We also picked up some Breakfast Sausages, which we hope to cook up soon!

Well, I think I’ll close out this Winter’s 3rd blog for now! The next one will highlight a few mor outings and spending quality time with friends and family!

Cheers!

Love to all,

-Doug and Elaine