Waiting for Container

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

I had a good night’s sleep last night… under the mosquito net. I see he bought a fan and a refrigerator. We won’t have a stove until we get our container. In the meantime, we’re using a little electric pitcher (the kind with a coil on the bottom for heating water)… for cooking eggs, hot dogs, and oatmeal. Scott really is resourceful!

Since he’s been here, he hired an agent that will help us get our belongings through Customs. It’s funny… Scott’s hearing is getting bad, and he said he has trouble understanding what this man is saying with his Caribbean accent! So when the stuff goes through Customs, they’ve come up with the “elbow nudge” method… Each time the guy nudges Scott with his elbow, Scott just needs to hand over a $100 bill (EC dollars). This agent will make the arrangement with Customs and scheduling the dockworkers in making the delivery to our house.

We heard that the container came in today so we could schedule delivery on Thursday. But by the afternoon, we’d had quite a bit of rain & the forecast was for more of the same so they called off the delivery till Monday. Okay… 4 more days isn’t going to make a difference at this point! So we walked around town today and went to the bank to get cash for the delivery. Good thing I had my raincoat with me… we got caught in the rain!

Tomorrow or Friday, we’ll go to the phone company to get our phone and broadband internet installed.

In the meantime… we wait.