First day at the house

Woke up to find this fellow hanging out in the bathroom...a harmless guy...he later was found expired on the floor. I questioned John about this but he assured me he had had nothing to do with it. I believed him.

And these lovely specimens are regulars across the street from us. I have learned sinceIi've been here this time that the pale flamingos are the young ones.

If you look closely in the center you will see a small brown, furry, mouse. We had to eject him from his cozy spot in our clothes.

Our first day, I got up, made coffee and tea and we resumed our unpacking. We really didn't bring a lot with us even though the truck was packed. I had to determine what we actually needed to get out to use and what would remain packed.
It didn't take long to get things in place, at least for now, so we decided to drive the 15 min or so to Dzilam de Bavo to visit a couple of people we know there. One is a woman named Linda who is originally from Canada but has been here for 15 years. We talked to her at length about the drive down and how we had not received any sort of temporary visa at the border. By the end of our visit it was decided we would return tomorrow and go on line to fill out an application for our FM 2-it allows us to stay for longer than 6 months and in two years it could lead to dual citizenship. We went home, ate something, puttered around a bit more then went into Dzidzantun where we dropped our dirty clothes from the trip off at the lavenderia to be washed. we went to the internet place to check e-mails and returned home after having ice cream treats. we atched another seinfeld CD and ended our first full day.

day 2- after tea and breakfast, John headed into Dzidzantun to buy a mattress. Our friend from the hotel stopped by with a buddy of his. They were on their way to take photographs of birds. I cooked breakfast and made coffee for them while we waited for John's return.About an hour later, the truck pulled in through the gate with a mattress in back!!

Later that day, we returned to see Linda about the application, which we filled out on line. It was decided that we would go into Merida the next day to the immigration office to drop off papers and see about our visa, which is exactly what we did. Thank god we had her! she knew exactly where to go and what was needed. We had a great lunch, I bought a beautiful mirror and wall sconces at a shop she wanted to stop at to buy some tiles. Oohhhh...the tiles!!! talk about overload. it was almost like walking into Cargo or the Cistine chapel....well, maybe not qwuite but you get my point....beautiful, beautiful tiles and lots of them. So when we got home, I packed the mirror and sconces away. I won't be hanging things and decorating until some work gets done.

by the time we dropped her off and got home it was dark..oh, we did stop and meet a very interesting woman in a town about a half hour away from us. She is around 60 and had a swin suit top on under her tank top. her curly grey hair was tied back in a pony tail and her skin was smooth and glowing. she pays $150.00 a month to rent her house and makes her living by teaching english to whoever wants to learn and baking bread. She says shes never going back. In her other life in the states she raised goats and sold bootleg cheese....i will tell you more about the cheese phenomenon another time. right now i am tiring from all the posting and the no seeums in the lobby have started biting so I will bid you adieu for now friends. All is well and we are happy....more to come...