Melting In El Sal

I am reminded by my brother in law that this is hottest time of year here in El Salvador.  I actually handle the heat a bit better than Douglas, but yes it is still extremely hot down here! 

We are staying in a quaint little "Guesthouse Hotel" that does NOT have a pool in the city near Metro Centro Mall - and the close proximity of food is our saviour at the moment.  However, sadly, we are "mall rats" and absolutely sick of Mall food at this point - we eat there almost three meals a day - except for a few comedors that we have visited on the side of the roads - so that has been about 11 days so far!

With the vehicle sold (because he thought he was out of this country and back in Canada on the 9th) we are left with taxi cabs or our legs.  We walk to the Mall almost every day.  We take cabs to other locations.  I have walked all over the neighbourhood and taken photographs galore of the surroundings, which I will post as soon as I am able - currently they are trapped in the iPhone and I am on an ancient computer at an internet cafe.  

We await the date of March 31st - our appointment with Government officials and hope that everything will be resolved on that day and that we will be flying home within a few days afterwards - our lawyer is extremely hopeful and tells me this will be so - but with our luck I take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt and will be cautiously optimistic at the moment.

Why are there no public pools in this hot city? The only one that we can find is the Military one - which we are fortunate to be able to use only because Douglas´ family is a Military one.  

The logistics of taking an extended "vacation" down here have been quite complicated.  My family is looking after our children, we speak with them every day and listen to Trinity begging to come down here every day to be with us (she takes after me and has the travelling itch), Avalon is too busy with cheerleading and playing on the computer etc. to text us 20 times a day and call us three or four times a day! I am also missing my University classes in the evenings - this is a problem to keep up with - so I will have to do some speedy catch up when I return to Canada.  My employer is extremely understanding of the situation - they have been fantastic! We now have two return flights to Toronto cancelled and needing to be rebooked - I am afraid to ask what the price is going to be as we are now going to be stuck booking them the minute we are able to leave for the first flight out.

Despite the circumstances, we are enjoying I guess what you could call a "second honeymoon" - being able to reconnect after so much time apart without screaming kids in the background - for soon the reality of our lives in Canada will resume.  The first thing Douglas wants to do is get his "double double" from Tim Hortons and order "Swiss Chalet" - yes his never ending pit of a stomach is what his life revolves around !