El Wally World

29 October 2008: I really am easily amused

Day two, we had to attend a breakfast meeting in the morning and after last night Paulette and I decided to pick up a few supplies at Walmart in downtown Cancun. It is about a half hour from our hotel so it only took us about an hour with a 20-30 minute tour of the neighborhoods.

I get a kick out of visiting stores in foreign countries to see what different stuff they have, especially if it is a US chain. This provided us, well more me, with a few hours of entertainment. Plus they are not as anal as stores in the US about taking photos.

The first thing that hit me was we are coming up on Dia de Muertos or Day of the Dead, more on that topic later.

In my hunt for for the odd we came across some choice items. Platanitos Sun Chips were pretty darn good, they were plantain banana chips and came in chile and regular flavor. Nestles Freskas are malted milk balls in Pineapple and other flavors. Bubu Lubu candies are pretty tasty too; chocolate, marshmallow and strawberry. Pepsi Retro was just a retro can the pop tasted the same. Milch is a candy bar that we have not tried yet but the name is great and of course there is teh candy bar Mr. Big.

They treat food a lot of food in Central America. In one area they were cooking chicken on a gyros spike for tacos, you can get taco meal for about a buck. In the bakery you grab a tray and tongues and pick what you want. We grabbed some queso bread, ham & cheese bread and an apple pastry did not try things we were not sure about.

Paulette needed some hair spray so we wandered into the cosmetic side of the store. This may have been the best find; moco de Gorila Gel. Or as the bottle says Snott Gorilla Gel.

There really were too many fun moments but here are three; the stuff, the bakery and the snot.

john