Errands

Thursday, 17 July 2008

OK… Today’s plan is to get the phone line scheduled for installation. So we had some errands to run in town again, and that would be high on our list.

Scott’s been making what he calls “jailhouse coffee” for us each morning… we have no coffeemaker. (Didn’t pack one either, since ours was on its last legs!) He somehow makes a big “teabag” with the coffee filter. It’s getting us by in a pinch! So we’re shopping around for a new one. Now you would think that would be an easy task, but here’s where we ran into trouble: Our old one used the flat bottom (Mr. Coffee) filters, so I packed our supply of what we had left… lots of them! So that’s what we’re looking for… with a European-style plug for 220v electric. They do sell Mr. Coffee machines here, but everything we’ve seen has the 110v plug, which means we’ll have to use another transformer. Everything with the 220 plugs uses the cone-shaped filters… or they have the reusable filter basket. (I don’t like those because they’re hard to clean & I don’t like coffee grounds in my drink!) Too many things to consider in making this decision… so tomorrow morning I guess we’ll be having jailhouse coffee again!

We stopped to schedule the phone line, but we’ll have to come back tomorrow… we forgot to bring our passports with us. They need to photocopy our passports before they can schedule the installation. It’s a half-hour (curvy) drive home, so rather than run back & forth, we’ll come back on Friday.

The day started out rainy, but it actually turned out to be an okay afternoon. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

(Photo is a view of St. George's Carenage. You can see the Catholic Church is still missing its roof... destroyed by Hurricane Ivan nearly 4 years ago.