We arrived into Merida via Toronto, Nashville and Cancun on April 30th after spending five days in Toronto with my son and his family and two weeks in Murfreesboro, Tennessee with my wife’s family.  It was great to get caught up with everyone – we feel so isolated on the west coast that it was nice to get a hug and updates on their family life.

We’ve grabbed the first Platino ADO out of Cancun to Merida that we could (ADO only allows only a certain number of seats on each bus for “INAPAM seniors” tickets so we headed out on the 2:15 p.m. bus and took the 4 hour and 30 minute relaxing trip to Merida.  By the way the have a new terminal, it’s no longer at the Fiesta Americana Hotel, they’ve moved it to a new facility just a few blocks away and they call it Calle 60.

We’ve been here for three (3) days now, with Thursday and Friday was pretty much occupied with our builder Adam dealing with updates and clarifications on building components because we’ve been  unavailable for the past three weeks or so.  Today being Saturday, we had a day off from the building process and we were able to go shopping.  Luckily enough, there’s kind of a “black Friday” sale going on here in the spring as well as the fall, so we decided to pull the trigger on some appliance purchases.   It was kind of insane spending some huge pesos on four appliances and one mattress we did manage to trim the expense by close to 55% overall on savings.  Timing is everything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Casa is coming along fantastic.  Both exterior and interior stucco is being applied to the walls, tiles are being laid, and meetings with the “iron guy”, the “aluminium guy” and “the kitchen counter guy” with the first one set for Monday at 10:00 a.m.   It was “Worker Appreciation Day” on Friday so we got invited to the big luncheon shindig that Casa Yucatan Construction throws for all it’s workers.  It was held at another Casa Yucatan project  site that was not far from our Casa, but I counted at the peak of attendance some fifty-eight (58) workers, some twenty-five (25) alone are from our project – so he’s got a sizeable crew and payroll as well.