Thursday, July 12, 2012

back to Isla.... problemas.....sorry!

remember the board game, 'Sorry' ?
I used to play it and love the excitement, & getting in & out of dilemmas....  
              
but now, that's how it feels sometimes coming back here...& really, it's not fun anymore...
sorry....your AC doesn't work.
sorry...your golf cart was stolen  (long story--maybe tomorrow....it's been an ordeal....)
Go back to start. 
sorry...you need your FM3 Visas to make an important transaction....but...oh no!....they were just given to our attorney to process the new FM3 Visas, which expire soon....which is why we came....

I wonder if one ever gets out from under.   From when we arrived, 3 days ago, we're at minus 0.
It's almost like when we first came to Isla, over 7 years ago....  sitting on the beach...waiting....
having nowhere to go because we had no transportation...
trying to figure out what to do next...trying to resolve the latest problem...etc., etc.

even when Steve got back to the house, the taxi driver asked him....
  '.....so...are you renting, or house sitting?'      (not as if there was any other category....)
I guess you can't get no respect around here.
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On the plus side... our downstairs renter, David, who is a capitan for Keen International charter boats,
has been telling us about his recent forays out to see the whale sharks.  He is sporting a 'Virgen' label T-shirt, and says the 'Virgen' company came from England, and are renting boats for many days, and doing photography, video, and have some famous actress, & maybe other famous folks, out on the half dozen boats they take out every day.  Maybe the most famous is the guy behind the Virgen label himself.  I'm getting some good gossip, and asking him to get details!!!!

Meanwhile, I saw this on a facebook posting, so I guess it's for real:
Sir Richard Branson, empresario multimillonario fundador de Grupo Virgin, visita Isla Mujeres con su familia y se va a nadar con el Tiburón Ballena !!! La presencia reiterada de éste líder de los negocios en Isla Mujeres está atrayendo la atención del turismo internacional hacia este destino.
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