People always as me "What do you do all day?"
We left the house @ 9:30 this morning, picked up our laundry that we dropped off yesterday. It was raining so hard yesterday @ 4:00 p.m. we did not venture out to pick it up. We went to our new place and went thru the usual stuff, how the t.v. works, how the suicide shower heads work, every key for every lock and all the little quirks of the house.
The owners are going back to the states this monday (Mike is driving them to the airport) and then when the wife retires in about 2 years they will be returning.
Then we went to Coronado, Panama to shop at 3 different grocery stores for a weeks worth of groceries. They are all in the same area so shopping is easy. A quick stop @ Mailboxes etc, to check what used paperback books they have available. This is where the ex-pats drop off their books and take others they haven't read. Totally free !!!!!! Isn't that cool? No library check out, just drop off, pick up and go...
So excited, I found Panama brand Italian Bread Crumbs, been on my grocery list for awhile. We have been told there is a store called "Riba Smith" in Panama City, they carry alot of brand names for ex-pats, prices are pretty good. On line Mike found Jimmy Dean Sausage and Mountain Dew. The store is out of Miami and what you can't find here they will order for you and it is shipped to their Store in Panama... I am sure for a price.
After lasagna @ Mia Nonna's (in our Coronado) we headed up and over the mountain to El Valle just in time for the groceries to be unpacked and our friend Manford came by to visit. He is the proprieter of Los Capitanes Motel and Cafe we stayed at last year. Great old sea captain with lots of good stories. After ice tea and cookies he left and Mike started dinner.
It is now 6:30 p.m. and it is pitch black outside. Time for a shower and read a little, watch old stuff on t.v. and before you know it... we are both yawning.
Last weekend we went to our usual sunday brunch @ Ty's and then we went to a nice place for dinner. One of our ex-pat couple's went back to the states for 4 months to visit family and do a little traveling. There were about 8 couples and we all paid for our own dinners. Had a great time and met a few new friends.
This week I have a "girls only" beach day and saturday night we are going to a cocktail party @ 4:p.m. and then down to Mama Mia's in Coronado for a band @ 8:00 p.m.. They are playing music from the 50's to the 80's.
Where is my husband and what have you done to him?.. Mr Sociable is a busy man down here in Panama. And I am trying to stay up with him.
We have a list of places we want to go and after we move next week we want to start checking those places off. One of our first one is Costa Rica, another stamp in our passport. We have alot of traveling to do to catch up with our Granddaughter Mackenzie, she is 20 and has traveled almost everywhere.
That gives you an idea of what we do, and I know I have asked my bother-in-law Pat and sister-in-law Kate a hundred times "What do you do all day when you retire?"...
Like everyone told us, "They don't know how they worked full time and got all this stuff done." I get it, I finally get it... And I love it...There is a reward for all those years of working hard...We get to spend the last 3rd of our lives RETIRED .....
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