We had Rita with
us today, and getting lost wasn’t such an issue. Our first jaunt was to Grecia for Rita to
look at a bed she was planning to buy.
We found the location, but she didn’t like the bed. We had lots of time, so we went to find the
location of the church chapel. We were fortunate in finding that, and we were
still all right with time. Most of our
time calculations centre around how long we can leave the dog.
We decided to go to the BIG
STORE. It is the Price Smart store. It was huge.
I was so surprised to find a huge department store in Alajuela. It’s patterned a great deal like the Costco
stores in North America, even with a
membership plan. Rita had her membership
card so we loaded up. That’s the problem with these type stores. Sure, they have everything, but you always
over buy if you aren’t very careful. We
over bought, but we will use all the goods we purchased, including a convection
toaster oven by Oester, shipped down from the states. The selection of goods was as good as Canada,
including cosmetics, stereos, T.V., and lawn furniture. I think they have been organized to
facilitate the foreign resident, because an average Costa Rican couldn’t afford
to shop in the store. Rita’s husband has
a substantial job in the big cheese factory, and she has rental properties, but
they are above the average person here.
It doesn’t take
long to tire me out in a big box store and I was happy to be finished and back
in the vehicle, but Melaney had promised us ice cream. We had looked in the store for the snack
counter, and thought it hadn’t been built yet, but from the car, we saw the
open window counter outside, and Mel hiked over to find the treat. Ice cream in Costa Rica isn’t very good. It isn’t creamy and rich, like North America, and has quite a grainy texture. It was a
treat, though, and we kept the little plastic cups and spoons for use at home,
but that is another story.
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