Ladies Day Out!

Just so you don't think I am pining away at the beach all by myself, I decided to write about one of my adventures with the expat ladies I have met down here. :)
There is a very large group of ladies from Canada and the US here and we get together frequenly without the spouses just to have a ladies day out.
This day there were 13 of us and we decided to make it an adventure and met at the main square in Progreso at 9am. Progreso is the central area of the beach, some of the ladies live east of Progreso and some live west. We met there and walked to the bus station to take the Auto Progreso bus to Merida. This is a very nice Air conditioned bus with reclining seats like an airplane. The round trip cost: 28 pesos or about $2.30 US, I don't think we could drive ONE car into Merida for that. :)
So the bus took us up the road a bit to Merida and we chatted along the way, leaving all the driving to the bus driver, and we got off at the bus station in Merida, two blocks from the main plaza.
 We went to several stores downtown, then walked up  a few blocks to the Tupperware store to see what was new in there. (They were so nice and gave us all catalogs, and a gift) Then we stopped at a jewelry/bead store having a 50% off sale. wow. Next we walked a few blocks up to the two story Air Conditioned store of Fantasias Miguel (our local Michael's craft store), and looke all over at the new things there.
Next up was lunch, too many Restaurants to choose from in Merida!!! This required a smal conference on the side of the sidewalk. lol. Finally decided on, we all headed to lunch at Las Vegas, owned by a man from Pittsburgh, PA. He has a clean place, nice bathrooms and most of all delicious food. oh, and AC! Can't forget the AC in the summer time, it sure gets hot here, and we walk around with our water bottles and cool off where we can. lol.
That all done, we decided to stop at the plastics store (everything you can imagine in plastic ware here).
Then back to the bus station for all us tired ladies. We rested our feet on the comfortable bus as it took us back to Progreso (about 30 minutes)
All the ladies try to get together at least once every two weeks to do something.