We made another trip over to Zihuatanejo for some food and window shopping.

We found a little corner of the market in Zihuatanejo we missed on the first trip.  Fresh baked pastries!

With all this home cooking I realized, upon gazing at the racks on the left of donuts, cakes and breads, that we haven’t had much junk food on this trip.  Well, that changed today.

By the way, to put into perspective how much things cost down here, that tray of pastries on the right only cost $12.60 Pesos. Yes, less than $1.00 USD.  No, we didn’t eat all of it today.  Just the chocolate cake.  The rest will be gone by tomorrow night.

We picked up some more seafood for lunch tomorrow.  Shelley picked out some shrimp on our last trip, and they were so good.  Not the plain Jane types we get back home.  Real flavor to these.  Takes a bit to prepare down here however.  You have to clean them and dip them in iodine water to disinfect them (just in case) before cooking.  This time, Shelley found a tray of crab meat and scallops, etc.  We’ll be trying that, along with the rest of the shrimp, for lunch tomorrow.

 

While I was in line getting the pastries, Shelley spied a woman wrapping up fresh backed tortillas down the counter from me.  She was wrapping them in stacks of 40 each (actually, by weight, but appx 40 in each wrap).  Shelley brought them over to me in line and they were still warm.  We didn’t need 40, so Shelley was able to ask the woman to give us only 20, which she counted out and wrapped up for us.  I’m amazed out how many tortillas the two of us have gone through down here in just a few days.  One woman ahead of us in line bought 160.  Wow.  The tortillas are in the white wrappers on the top shelf just beyond the scale.

On the bus ride over to Zihuatanejo, I stuck the camera out the window and took a couple photos of the street life.  I didn’t think of it at the time, but I should have just ran a movie.  I didn’t think of it in time so you’re stuck with a bunch of stills.  The “Bodega” is there as well.

Another interesting thing I saw this time that I missed last time, this store is affiliated with Wal-Mart in some way.  While walking around the produce section, I noticed that the plastic trays the produce came in all had Wal-Mart’s name on it.  Once I noticed that and began to look around I saw that the employee’s name tags all had Wal-Mart written on them.  There was even an infomercial playing on the TV’s above the cash registers advertising a Wal-Mart Visa card.

It was a good day of sight-seeing, window shopping and buying more groceries.  After a lazy morning in Zihuatanejo, we headed back to the condo and more beach time.

We took the bus into Zihuatanejo today to spend a bit of the day there and go grocery shopping.  The grocery store there is great.  It’s right off the bus stop and its huge (by the local standards around here).  Kind of like a baby Costco.  The bus is only $7.00 Pesos per person, one way.  So, pretty cheap.  Right now the exchange rate is $1.00 USD = $13.56 Peso.

In order to reduce the chances of food illnesses we suffered from last time, we decided to eat in more often this trip.  Much cheaper that way too.  In fact, this trip today to the grocery store came to about $16.27 USD.  Counting what we bought over the weekend we have spent less then $25.00 USD on groceries.  Not bad.  Along with daily Pepto Bismal tablets and Quaker Oats oatmeal every other morning for breakfast we are having a very pleasant trip this time.  By the way, trexmom, we are eating those breakfast burritos as well.  Good stuff!!

The local fisherman were just pulling back in to port when we were walking down the waterfront.  In hindsight, we should have bought some for dinner for ourselves, but we still had to go to the store and make our way back to Ixtapa and there wasn’t really any way to keep them cold.  If you can time it right and bring your own cooler, then this is the way to go.   Talk about fresh fish.

After all our errands, we still made it to the beach by 1:00 pm.  Boogie boarding is now a daily thing.  We just hung out on the beach till sunset around 1745.  Our shopping list wasn’t quite on target, so tomorrow I’m going back to the store to restock on a few things for the rest of the week.

We used the condo’s gym today as well.  Not a huge workout, just enough to stay on top of things.  We are in the process of training up for Mt Rainier next August so we want to maintain where we’re at on our schedule.  Besides, what else are we gonna do when you have nothing to do at all?

This is what we are looking at every night.  Can you believe it?