Wednesday February 25

Up and ran before eating. bought two pan dulce con rado baya (one for tomorrow. HA!) went home and ate them both.

Today's mission it to go to the centro, get a hair cut and buy a raft of tee shirts for friends and family. I will remember my mochilla this time.
I will also try to buy one of those roasted whole chickens like I got the first week here.

New observation. casual street greetings alternate reply "Hola. Bien"
As I read it, you answer as if you heard "como estas?" and reply "Hello. I'm well".

Today's vocabulary for hair cut:
donde esta Peluqueria?
Lo quero corte cerca mitaad de lo que. Y recortar la barba del mismo.
tienes bloques par su maquinilla?

The trip went pretty well. I found a barber shop near the mercado. The barbers are women. Cost was 35 pesos. I apologised for my terrible Spanish and read from my notes. She read over my shoulder. Anyway, it came out good. I have been cutting my own hair since 1971, so this broke a long string. I tipped an extra 10 pesos.

Then I asked the attendant at the mercado where to buy souvenir tee shirts. He thought a shop on the adoquin would be the best deal and gave me direction."turn right and eight blocks. At nine or ten blocks I reached the carreterra (highway). So I began to ask every five minutes. Maybe he meant go straight 8 blocks and then turn right.

 I finally stumbled on what I thought was it and a Senora confirmed. I walked up and down and picked a store. A girl helped me. I bought ten in total in sizes from xl to 2 year old. cost averaged out to 59 pesos each, much cheaper than I had estimated.

Then I went to Graco's fish Taco place for lunch , Only to find they don't open until three. It was one PM. Andrew's sky nest across the street looked closed up so I went home. I suppose I could have climbed up 4 flights to be sure. HA!! I took the collectivo home.

There is a street side cafe just off the carreterra that always has locals eating, so I went in and stumbled my way through ordering breakfast. I ended up with fried eggs and tortillas cooked in a comal (like the one below) over a wood fire with beans and salsa rado. Really good.

The cook had a picture perfect Mayan profile.