December 19th - Rogue None

We are nearly finished out site set-up, finally having hung the electric light from our canopy.  We don't often use it, being content to sit in the evening dusk/night and listen to the Night Herons croak their way past, on the way to an evening hunt.

So the big plan for today was to go see the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One at Cinema Guayabitos.  The fly in the ointment was the need to climb a long, winding set of cement stairs with no handrails to get up to the cinema.  Friends said that the DVD's were already for sale in La Peñita, they're cheap, but unreliable, however, you can take them back if they don't play.   Hmmm, cheap....I mean, frugal...  Off to town we went.  The store on Centro across from Pharmacy Guadalajara had them on display.  No hablas englais, but Nancy asked specifically if la pelicula was en englais, and she was assured it was.  $25 MXN (multiply by 7 for approximate CDN, i.e. about $1.75 CDN)  Done.  Home we went with our prize.  It was the first time that we had used the DVD player in the Brave, so it took a while to figure out, plus I had to do some coax cable re-arranging since we're jury rigged in order to use our neighbours sat. receiver (since he upgraded LNB's over the summer and we did not, our receiver won't work with his dish, so he has loaned us one of his) (Nothing's ever simple).  Finally, with great anticipation, we started the movie.  The iconic Star Wars script started to scroll up the screen, slightly crooked, en español.  The conversations started, and yep, Spanish.  Sigh.  We searched around the DVD for an option to change the language, but nope, it was (Surprise!) a cheap burner copy.  (I say we, because Nancy did not trust my meagre tech talents, and had to have a go herself).  So it goes.

We had drinks on the deck to celebrate my birthday.  I got a pair of great "Mexican-ish" shirts from Teri & Louise, plus Louis brought up two prepared plates of gourmet level spaghetti and meat sauce for us for supper, and from Dave and Dawn, a point (that's Newfie) of high-end dark rum.  I'm fortunate to have such thoughtful friends.