Driving in Guadalajara

Yesterday we made the trek to Guadalajara. I wanted to go to Costco, the mall, Ford dealership to look at my car to give an estimate etc and then we were returning home to go to dinner with Sandra and Henri, our neighbours.

We got up early enough and headed out. Our first arrival (we went in order of finding the places) was Walmart to see if they had any bedding that Kristen liked. She has a twin bed and only has queen sheets for them - so it doesn't work well and here in Ajijic we currently only have Soriana for sheets and you can only get 180 thread counts. Walmart had nothing that she liked and the shoes didnt fit her either so we left.

We found Ford next and they appraised the damage on the car from my accident and said even if the parts were available in Mexico (but they aren't) it would cost almost $26,000 pesos. Too much. I will talk to our insurance next week.

We asked them to hook up the car to a diagnotic to tell us why the car kept stalling. They wouldn't have the computer tool until Monday and they suggested that we get it done in Ajijic.

So we headed off to Costco. The computer file back up I want is too expensive here so I will have Andre bring one down at Christmas and they had no twin sheet sets only Queen and King, so other than getting to see what Costco had and getting a new stainless steel cannister set, Costco was a bust too.

We headed across the street to the Galleria Mall and off to Sears - yes Sears is here too. Their bedding department is much smaller than north of border and hideously expensive, 850 pesos for twin set of sheets with 150 thread count. Not for me. So that wasn't a great time saver either.

So we left there to go to the outlet mall on the outskirts of town to see if they had bedding for her bed otherwise we decided she could wait until Christmas. And turning left onto our street, the car stalled and refused to restart. You have to let it wait until it is ready to restart but in the middle of a busy 6 lane road was not an ideal place for it to happen. I had visions of the Federales coming to move us because of all the cars honking at us, asking for our import papers and them taking the car from me because I still can't find them. Thankfully the car started before my worst nightmare happened.

We arrived at the outlet mall and there was a bedding store with tons of sheets, duvet covers and bed in a bag, which is what I wanted. And we settled on a brown, blue and green set with circles. It is really cool looking and we are all happy.

I do not think I will venture out as far as Guad again until the car is in my name and Jalisco plated (which is how we have decided to proceed). The stress is just not worth it.

But dinner and our company was a perfect way to end such a day. We had an awesome time.