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| Colorful Dress Shop in Alajuela |
Yalile came at 8 AM today to clean my apartment, my first time for a maid. I have scheduled her for every two weeks now. I’m pretty clean but she probably does more than me with dusting furniture, cleaning the floor and the bathrooms & kitchen. It makes me feel cleaner now. 🙂 The standard rate here is 2,000 colones per hour or $4. So for $8 I get 2 hours of cleaning! Spic and span clean! It is such a good deal I might even consider going weekly when I’m in town. But I’m not ready to give her a key yet, maybe in the future. Plus she is already helping me with my Spanish and I with her English learning. When you have to communicate is when you really learn a language!
After she left, I went to Alajuela again, which I always love and it is always a colorful place! I don’t think I will ever tire of walking around Alajuela! Especially with a camera! Just phone pix again. I’m tempted to take my camera bag and good cameras, but then you just call attention to yourself and its sometimes harder to do candid shots. I still don’t photograph many people which I’m afraid will be considered rude. But occasionally catch a candid like the umbrella guy below.
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| Methodist Church at the Alajuela Central Park Made more colorful by the guy losing his umbrella to the wind! |
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| A Fruit Stand on nearly every block in Alajuela. |
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| Move Over South Beach! We have Art Deco too! In Alajuela Central. |
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| I finally found and ate at the raved-about Jalapenos Restaurant. It is good and better prices than Tacontendo from yesterday, but just Tex Mex food by a transplanted New Yorker serving mostly expats. |