Just Looking
When we came to Mexico in October of 2005 one of the things we brought with us was a small TV set. When I say small, I mean small, I am talking about a 14" screen here. It has served us well; but the last while has been showing its age, which is considerable. Some days it is so blurry that you cannot make out the images well at all and forget about reading any of the writing on the screen. Then again on other days it is just fine, making you wonder what you were complaining about the day before. I am not a big TV watcher, clocking in maybe an hour or two a day at most. There is one show that I watch almost everyday, when we remember to switch the channel to it and then I watch bits and pieces of another couple. It is turned on almost all day though, usually tuned to CNN, Roy watches more of it than I do, so he is a little more concerned. My suggestion that we just wait until it died and then not bother replacing it was met with a LOOK, until I couldn't restrain myself and started laughing.
Today we decided that maybe we should think about getting a new set, so we headed up town to see what was being offered.
Electronics, such as TVs, computers, printers, cameras, etc. are definately not cheaper in Mexico, in fact I would say that they are quite a bit more expensive than north of the border. We are not interested in a top of the line, fancy gadget model, so are not really concerned about all the new technologies that are out there. We were just looking for a regular TV with a bit bigger screen than we have.
We wandered around downtown and about the best price that we found for a 20-21" screen, regular TV was 1599 pesos, about $159.99. Good enough for what we need.
Enough window shopping, on to the fun part of the outing, going to sit on a park bench in the plaza. Gee, aren't we exciting people. First window shopping and then hanging out on a park bench!
When we arrived at the plaza, we noticed some booths set up by some artisans from Oaxaca. Now this was interesting. We wandered along, looking at/admiring all the various articles for sale. Finished with our tour of the booths we retired to a bench and did some people watching. After enjoying this for awhile we wandered over to the bay to see what is happening with the part they are filling in. We were surprised to see that they had filled in another area, that we had thought they were done with. For some reason they have the area around the Plaza del Pescador cordoned off also. The work continues on the grounds of the Plaza de los Tres Presidentes also, so much of the area is a mess.
Last year I laughed at the look on the face of the burro in the Nativity scene that was set up in the Plaza de los Tres Presidentes. We noticed that it is set up across the road from the plaza this year, so I will have to return to take another picture of the burro and his friends.
We then headed home to relax after our taxing shopping afternoon.
