floundersgreatadventure

The next day Ruby and Jeff were introduced to my friends the Lizards Ruby’s not very fond of them, Jeff says they remind him of lizards they sold at circuses when he was very young, they just keep me up at night when they chase ants. That was about six thirty in the morning , I thought they still had to go to work so I got them up early, needless to say they weren’t too happy with me. When they finally woke up after several cups of coffee they decided to go shopping for a refrigerator and washing machine which they found in a store similar to Wal-Mart back in New Jersey called Carafalo.They made arrangements to have everything delivered the next day. I should explain that refrigerators aren’t quite as big in Colombia as they are in New Jersey, that’s because people only shop for one or two days at a time. They have butcher shops everywhere and the same with produce markets so the only thing you buy for the week or month are can goods and paper products. You may have noticed I didn’t mention dryer when I said washing machine that’s because nobody uses them they hang the underwear above the machine and the other clothes outside (in our case on the balcony) and with the sun down here everything dries in about an hour also they don’t use hot water. I should take just a minute to tell you that unless you own your own house and have money you don’t even have hot water in your house.Thats right if you want to take a shower it’s going to be cold unless you purchase an electric shower head to heat the water for your shower all the other faucets in the house are just for cold water you most likely won’t even see a hot water one. This is one of those things that will take Jeff a little time to get use to. Now that they have their major appliances all that is left is to wait for the rest of their belongings to arrive and that’s just what they did they waited and waited and waited. Just about everything in Colombia is cheaper unless it’s electric. Then it’s a little more expensive at least that’s what Jeff has noticed so far.Oh by the way we’re still waiting for our stuff at least Jeff and Ruby are I have everything I need.