Only a handful of photos today.

We wanted today to be an adventure day, but we had two small problems that became obstacles.

One problem was that Ava woke up and was in a really bad mood and was spreading it around the house.

That one alone might have stalled us, or stopped us, but it was the complete lack of cash money that really had us worried.

We’d brought a good amount of Mexican dollars (it’s really odd to see menu items priced at $330…roughly $27CAD), it ran out, as it is supposed to do. We’d planned to just get more from an ATM, it’s a global economy, easy no problem. Except that yesterday, no ATM we could find would give us money, and we didn’t know if we could contact the bank before Monday (tomorrow).

Now, it’s not super bad, because lots of places take credit cards. But it severely limits our choices to those places that take credit card, which is mainly only 5th Ave, which is mainly the restaurants that are jacked up in price by $30CAD/visit compared to places a block away.

We tried both mine and Miranda’s cards, multiple dollar amounts, multiple currencies, multiple ATM machines, we even tried our credit cards we were getting so desperate. (note: never try your credit card, we were really hoping it wouldn’t work).

So we planned today to put it all on card. We had breakfast, packed up some stuff and walked down 5th to Fundadores Park a very well known park in the area. We put Ava in her new wet suit, hoping that it would mitigate any issues with cold water she might have.

But it couldn’t mitigate her being afraid of the ocean. So we played in the sand instead!

We had lunch at a credit card place that was in the same space as a restaurant Miranda and I ate at 6 years ago. Not the same restaurant, and I think most places we enjoyed aren’t there anymore.

We got home, so hot, and put Ava to nap and called Vancity. A guy told us it wasn’t on his end, and that he’d just been in Mexico and had needed to try a couple ATMs. I needed to go to Walmart for groceries, so I walked past a Scotiabank (no) and an HSBC (yes!!!) and brought home the groceries!

Dinner was back at Zitla, the #1 rated Mexican place in PDC, and then we walked past the water fountain again. A band was setting up, so Ava and I played in the water and danced to a 5-piece live band that played classic rock hits with a baritone sax and trumpet. It was a great night!

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