Friday, January 30, 2015

Walking, Wi-Fi, and Whales

It was time for Emelio's, and this morning, before the sun released maximum heat, we strolled the fifteen minutes to Ixtapa Centro to pick up a selection of baked goods at Emelio's. This is a combination bakery and Italian Restaurant, producers of bread rolls, croissants, strudels, etc. and assemblers of lasagna and pizza extraordinaire.

But even the morning sun was strong enough to incite yearning for a smoothie, so we stopped first at a shaded outdoor restaurant where we each enjoyed one of the banana persuasion.

Nearing Emelio's we passed men stacking firewood for the winter. No, wait, this *is* winter. They were stacking wood for Emelio's great pizza oven ...


Emelio's

Upon returning home we discovered our wi-fi service was crippled. Things were loading very slowly indeed, and after a while not at all. I called our rental agent who stopped by to advise us that a car had crashed into an electrical installation which disrupted Internet service for most of this building. But not to worry because it would be fixed sometime, and next year the building would have Internet service from a better company.

When we got back from our meeting tonight wi-fi was working again. But it's been spotty for a while so if this blog suddenly vanishes you'll know why.

next year?    yippee.

This afternoon Carol, sitting on the balcony and watching the ocean, saw whales playing in the bay, some close by and spouting. I was on the phone at the time and missed the spectacle.

Tonight's meeting featured the first Ministry School part with a family study demonstration. So nicely done I took a photo ...


The last part was about using a tablet to show videos to interested persons they could show in turn to their children. The hall has wi-fi but no flat screen TV for major display, so the congregation watched a sample video of a song on an iPad.


... and so it goes.

1 comment:

Granny said...

Most spectacular playful whales I have ever seen. I was watching about three playing further out in the water and then suddenly I saw this water spout fairly close to shore, and then the huge body come up out of the water. He put on a great show. It was so beautiful.

Let's hope there is Internet service tomorrow or there will be crying gringos marching in the streets. It's Super Bowl Sunday.