For the last 10 days I have been sick to various degrees. I’ve had every sort of sickness you can think of and it all blended together into a slur of running around town looking at houses and apartments. Some of these places are really scary with cockroaches scurrying under the beds, puddles of questionable liquids in the bathrooms and the paint peeling off the walls while other places cost a million dollars but they had 50 m pools and white furniture so clean that you are afraid to sit on it. I only remember a couple places clearly but I do remember a general feeling of not bonding with any of the homes. 3 days ago we moved into a huge stone palace that we decided to rent, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms plus the maids quarters. The way we have decided to justify having the huge place is that first of all it is very cheap by Canadian standards and also with this many bedrooms relatives coming to stay here can be in the same house as us and the cost of hotels they would have stayed in pays off the difference. Of course we are in Mexico so the house isn’t perfect. The first night the toilet in my bedroom broke and managed to flood my room with 4 inches of water by 2 in the morning when dad noticed the water in the hall. Several days have been spent cleaning all the floors and outdoor areas. When we first moved in our bare feet were black as beans after 5 minutes of walking around. Now that we have a permanent house we bought a high chair and nice stroller for Bella. This involved going to 7 different Wal-Mart like stores all over town, which was quite an ordeal. Today we worked on getting the internet/phone/tv hooked up. We went to the cable place first and they sent us to the Ley mall and they sent us to Wal-Mart and they sent us to the bus station and they said come back at 5:00. Oh, also Christmas was in there somewhere. We tried to make sushi for Christmas dinner and watched Nacho Libre.
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