The reason for going back early this year was to finalize our Residente Permanente. This gives us the rights of permanent residents. The main reason among many is so that we can keep our Mexican-plated car; such as it is.
Please note that it is an electric
We decided to use the services of our friend Eddie Peña to do the leg work for us for which he will be adequately compensated. The language barrier is the worst part of the process and of course, he knows English as well as his way around the system.
There was an appointment to meet him at the immigration office at 9:15 a.m. and after signing some documents and parting with some money, the worst of it was over. Then the wait for final approval, to get our new ID cards. We thought we had paid all that was owed except to pay Eddie. Apparently, there were another three thousand pesos each (we thought) before getting our new cards.
When we did it ourselves in the past it was way more difficult and entailed lots of visits to the office as well as internet work and photocopying. Back at INM the cost this time was over $6,000 pesos each. I cringed but as we had come this far, what the heck. So, we have been approved and eventually got our new cards. Rosalie is not happy with her picture!
And while we waited we played.
I’m addicted to Maynard’s Wine Gums so I bought a 1k bag to bring to Mexico. I paid $12. 49 and got another small bag for free. I figured that I could order more when I got here. Wrong! I can get them on Amazon okay but the cost works out at over $202 CDN a kilo. On Mercado Libre, they are $310 CDN. I don’t think so! I guess they don’t sell too many down here.
One of the unique experiences here is sitting outside watching TV in the middle of a nasty thunderstorm. It was fine to start off with but as we live outside it soon developed into a panicked attempt to get all the electronics inside. Our patio is covered, however, the spray from the wind and the general splashing threatened to soak everything.
So after getting everything inside, we sat back and watched the local geckos chase flies around and a friendly little land crab trying to get past us to get to the beach.
It’s been a warm summer according to some of our friends here. Lots of heat; the other day it was 28C with 91% humidity. There hasn’t been a lot of rain so far but temperatures are slowly getting better/lower.