Success!

You know the VW pickup I told you about yesterday? I found it today! Pretty cool, I thought. But is it just me or have they gotten a little bit uglier?

So I said good-bye to my host family today. It's true that I moved out on Monday, but I returned today with my parting gift. I purchased a gift certificate for them from Casa Santo Domingo - a local restaurant with a fancy restaurant.

It's true that I'm a bit of a procrastinator, but it wasn't really my fault that the gift was late! I purchased it on Monday, thinking that I would give it to them before I moved out.

It took quite a while to get everything squared away ... it kind of seemed like they rarely sell gift certificates. After I paid for it, they asked if they could have it ready for me Tuesday ... I asked if it was possible to have it now, but they said no ... so I acquiesced. The woman who was evidently in charge of el certificados de regalos (the gift certificates) said it would be ready Tuesday morning and that she'd give me a call. Strange, right? Usually you get a gift certificate when you pay for it!

Unfortunately, I neglected to charge my phone and my battery died. I headed over to Casa Santo Domingo (which is beautiful by the way - I'll take pictures sometime) after class around 2pm figuring the gift certificate would be ready. I got there and it was chaos. No one knew where my gift certificate was. A different girl escorted me to an office upstairs, which she had to unlock with a key, and then shut the door behind us ... I was kinda nervous. Clearly she had some really bad news for me! But, she merely told me that the paper work got misplaced and she didn't have the certificate ready. This took all of two minutes and then we went back downstairs ... muy extraño (very strange).


Finally the girl I talked to the first day showed up and mentioned something about how she hadn't called me - haha! I explained that my phone was dead and I just assumed that the gift certificate would be ready ... after 24 hours. She said to give her a call the next day (today)!

So today I call at 3pm and ask if the certificate is ready. The girl asks me when I'd like to come pick it up - haha! I had to make an appointment to pick up the certificate! What?! So now I'm thinking that this certificate is going to be pretty fancy - maybe high gloss with some foil inlay - after all, it had taken 48 hours to produce!


This is the gift certificate I picked up today. Hahaha! Extremely underwhelming. Don't get me wrong - it's perfectly adequate - but it seems like maybe they could've just filled this out the first time I was there .... Haha! Oh well.