McLunch

McTrio of the Day

I’m not really a big fan of the McScottish restaurant, but sometimes the value is too good to pass up. Today at Plaza Las Americas, my lunch was a BBQ chicken burger with fries and what they called a medium drink and I thought was rather large, what they call the McTrio, different each day and all for $3. For another 10 pesos you get a 12oz coffee. I struggled to get through it all, I think my eyes had been too big for my Mcbelly, or rather, my Mcbladder. So what was I doing at the Plaza? Well it all started with a misunderstanding….

I misread the email from my yoga school inviting me to the Forgiveness meditation, thinking it was at 9am instead of 9pm. I had brought my mat for the yoga class afterwards, at 10am, so I had an hour to kill. I started with an iced coffee from the Oxxo shop, then started wandering, turning down streets I’d never been before. You can’t really get lost here because the streets are numbered rather than named. I found a lovely little neighbourhood with a small park where I drank my coffee sitting on a swing, watching the council workmen painting a small building a lovely bright red. I wandered past interesting houses and admired their gardens. Ending on a fairly busy road, I crossed to what I thought was a park but turned out to be a small housing estate, all set around a delightful central park, palapa and BBQ area. I will have to take my new friend Janet there, she paints pictures of interesting doors and there were plenty of them there, including one where the door handles were gold hands!

By this time it was nearly 10 and I was enjoying myself so much I decided to keep wandering and skip yoga.  Eventually I found my way back to the main road, and the first bus to come along was going to Plaza Las Americas. I remembered that I’d read a new WalMart had opened just near it, so I decided it sounded like a good excursion. The bus trip for 5 pesos went all around the small housing estates, around the world for sixpence, and the driver dropped me off at an intersection, car drivers beeping angrily behind him, with instructions to Walmart La Cruz. I was hoping for a café inside like many of the other supermarkets here have, to enjoy a coffee and donut, but this store didn‘t have one. It did however turn out to be a good choice for shopping, because I found some cushions I really liked for the lounge, some double sheets in plain white, and my favorite Sangria which I haven’t found in any other supermarket (so I bought all 4 litres), and a 20 peso sunhat. Wearing the hat against the hot midday sun, I then walked about 800m further on to Plaza las Americas, where I had my Mclunch and picked up a few other items I needed. I ended up balancing 4 plastic shopping bags, the 2 cushions, my yoga mat and handbag on the bus home, and was glad I didn‘t have to walk far with all that.

It was warm and sunny when I got home and I decided to go up on the roof and test the Jacuzzi; I hadn’t been up since I arrived. The water was cool and I found a shady spot to read with my feet dangling in the water, and passed the rest of the afternoon relaxing. Pretty happy with my life at present.

Yoga tonight to make up for this morning’s missed class, and maybe the Forgiveness Meditation afterwards if I’m not too hungry.