It's Time to Wash Dishes

The big news around our house today is the arrival of our new dishwasher.  For the last five years that we have owned the condo we have not felt a need to install a dishwasher.  Only coming down for three weeks at a time didn't seem to justify the expense.  But now that this is our primary home it was time to make that move.

Dishwashers are not that common down here.  As a matter of fact the Home Depot only carried one model and it did not fit our space under the kitchen counter.  The average price for a dishwasher is over $1,000.00 which is caused by the tariffs charged on imported products.

Fortunately our kitchen was built to have a dishwasher installed.  The wiring, water and drain pipe are already there.  We just needed to find a dishwasher to fit.

Last weekend was Mexico's "Black Friday Sale".  We went to the new Liverpool (like Macy's in the USA) store that just opened in our neighborhood and they had what we needed.  And it was on sale.  There were two discounts offered and when it was all added up including tax and delivery it was $508.52.  What a deal!!!

Our shiny new stainless steel Electrolux dishwasher.   OOOOOOW.

We will have a friend of Manuel's do the installation.  Manuel is our condo maintenance man.  He is the one doing our painting and as all good Mexicans say, "I have a friend that can do that for you".  And in five years he has come through every time.

It has been our experience that the prices we are charged are always fair and sometimes to cheap to believe.  Also if they say they will have it done by a certain time or date their word is good.  (This does not apply to Megacable, but all cable companies everywhere are known for poor service.)

I haven't said much about the new mall that is now open in the Marina development.  When we left last year they were just beginning the building.  This year the anchor store, Liverpool, was open when we came back.  Two weeks ago 57 of the 127 stores in the mall opened.

Our new two story mall "Galleries" just opened.  The multi story silver building on the right is a new university, "Tec Melono" which opened two years ago. The striped building on the right side of the mall is Liverpool, just like Macy's.
We can see the mall from the back side of our condo looking to the Northeast.

This was our first day with no guests in town so we kicked back and were lazy all day.  We did get a nice walk in this morning and we will go feed the Marina cats this evening.

Another nice sunset here in paradise.