So....I will give you a brief summary of what has been happening since I last wrote...
El Salvador or London?? Turned out to be Tegus and not a beach in sight! Having toured around Sigua trying to find things for my car, I took it in to the mechanic on the day we were supposed to leave just to have a strange clanking noise checked out....well it turns out a piece of tubing that is in the engine, to do with water getting somewhere (my Spanish vocab is increasing slowly - but doesn't help that I would have no clue in English either!) had rotted away and was very dangerous and thus the car would not have made it even close to El Salvador. Thank you God for that one! He mended it for me and said the noise was safe and he would deal with it after the weekend for me! How kind. So I got into the car, drove 100m down the road and there was a huge clunking sound, the front of my car lifted up and as I looked in my rearview mirror there was my spare tyre lying in the road behind me! The chain holding it under my car had broken, so I lifted the huge bloomin thing into the back of my car, went back to the mechanic and asked him to help me. He just laughed and said the chain had broken. I explained that to go to El Salvador I needed to get 6 people into my car and so 1 had to go into the boot/back with the luggage. However, there was no way he could fit the tyre chain thing and so the tyre had to stay in the back of the car - so no room for a person, plus bags, plus a tyre for 6 hours!!
So after lengthy discussions - far too many people to make a quick decision around here - we decided it was ok to drive to Tegus (the capital) and that I was not happy to drive it out of the country! So, Mark, Deb and Noel caught a bus from Tegus to El Sal and Amanda, Megan and I stayed in Tegus for the weekend.
It was just EXACTLY what I needed and was great. We stayed with Marlon and met up with Jorge. On the Thursday night I gave my car keys to Jorge and he drove us around Tegus to see all the sights by night. It is a city built into the mountains and so we went up one side and looked down on the lights of the city, then went up the other side. Really beautiful at night - not so much in the day! It was a hilarious midnight tour of the city.
Me, Megan, Marlon and Jorge
Whilst in Tegus we went to various places, some beautiful, some not so much.
On the Friday night we went to the National theatre to see "de MONSTRUOUS y PRODIGIOUS. La historia de los CASTRATI." We were to see a Mexican cultural production, with singing and dancing....or so we thought! We got there late, were sat in the front and proceeded to laugh the whole way through. In fact I was crying my eyes out with laughter. I dind't understand a thing - not because of the language so much, it was just so random. The history of the castrate - apparently historically accurate, about a group of singers who thought they could sing higher if they were castrated. I shall say no more! Hilarious, haven't laughed that much in a very long time.
Before heading back to Siguat, we stopped at Pricemart - we know it as Costco in UK - oh my goodness.....you can get everything here that you can in the States! Was amazing! Then went on to Office Depot....where I was in my element! At least we now know what you can buy in this country!
Pushing Megan with her broken foot around Pricemart - not sure where the others got to but we ended up with the wheelcair AND the trolley!
All in all a great weekend!
2 comments:
Perfect summary of a fun weekend!
So glad you have filled us in on all that's been happening. Nearly the end of term - you lucky thing. At least we've got next week off followed by 2 inset days!! SATs happened last week and this week years 4 & 5 are doing their tests; joy oh joy. Lots of maths papers to keep me out of mischief!! Take care, love Barbara xx
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