Saturday, September 12, 2009
Last night Hna. Johnson and I went to “Price Smart”. It is only 4 miles away but it took us a half hour to get there because of the traffic. “Price Smart” is the Dominican Republic’s version of “Costco”. When we went inside we felt like we were back in Mesa at our favorite Costco. We will definitely be shopping a lot there. The Mission office already has a member ship so we don’t even have to signup.
Then this morning we went to a different store called “Carrefour”. It was huge with a large sign on the street that announced “The very best in French shopping”. Ya…. You guessed it, it was the French version of “Wal-Mart”! The best part of this store was that it had a very large parking lot. Most stores here have very little parking. Another advantage was the single level of the store. Many stores in Santo Domingo are spit level and cover many floors. We went to Plaza Lama a couple of weeks ago, it was about the same size as “Carrefour” but it was on 4 levels, which made shopping hard.
This afternoon as we prepared for our usual trip to Azua we received a phone call from the AP’s over “El Sur” to let us know they forgot to pay the Electric bill and the power was cut to the house we spend the night in. So it looks like we will do the whole trip in one day. We will leave at 4:30am tomorrow and get back after dark. Without any electricity for AC, sleeping is impossible in Azua. So it will be a long day tomorrow.
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