Stepping Out of the Boat

The screens that I am hanging were actually custom made by the lady that lived in the apartment before we did. She tried to contact us over the summer to see if we were interested in buying them from her. Unfortunately for us we were out of town and were unable to get ahold of her. So we thought that we would have to have screens of our own made and hung up in our apartment to combat the mosquito problem caused by the mango tree located outside of our apartment. However upon arriving I spoke to the landlord and it turns out that the lady was unable to sell them and he was holding them in a storage room here in our building for her. So as you can see we were able to get them and hang them in our living room and kitchen. It has been a tremendous help keeping the mosquitos bites to a minimum.

Here is picture of Claire on our way to lunch last Sunday. This is the view from the front door of our apartment building

Walking to the Multicentro we had walked by a little pastry shop called La Baguet, pictured here, and we thought that this would be a good place to try for lunch. Luckily for us the owner of the shop spoke English and we were able to ask about the different types of thing he had in his shop. There were a variety of sweets such as cakes, doughnuts, flan, and candies. He also has pastelitos which are little pastries filled with different types of meat or cheese. We wanted to try a variety of things so we got two of each of the pastelitoes and a couple different sweet things.

Here are the things that we got for lunch. Simply looking at the plate I am still not sure what was in each pastry but I do know that some were meat, turkey, ham, cheese, and cream cheese. After we sampled each one we came to the conclusion that we enjoyed the turkey pastries the best. I am sure that these will become a regular treat for us.