This morning, we get up with an alarm, to drive Marie-Andrée to the airport. The car's GPS takes us elsewhere, but thanks to Louis' phone, we find the right way.
Well, our paths diverge until our return. Thank you for all these good times and these laughs Marie-Andrée. We welcome you back on board whenever you want.
We then go in search of a quick place to have lunch. Louis wants to stop at a McDonald's but there isn't one open on the way before 11 a.m. It's 9:30 a.m. So we stop in a small gas station restaurant. There are at least thirty seats, but few people when we arrive.
We order half in Spanish and less in English. In fact, we see ingredients cooking on a plate and it makes us want: sandwich with egg, cheese, steak, salad, onion and tomato. I managed to make myself understood for a long espresso for Louis and a freshly squeezed orange juice. Really nice as a small restaurant. It fills up in minutes and it gets crowded with people looking for a place to sit, some even standing.
A little anecdote: I'm looking on the internet for how to say brown sugar for Louis's coffee: azúcar morena. So I go to see a waitress:
“Can I have azúcar morena please” / can I have azúcar morena please
“I don’t speak english” / I don’t speak English
It was the man sitting next to him who told him in the Spanish accent that I was just trying to speak Spanish and repeated it to him in a better way than mine azúcar morena. I got some brown sugar. All that effort and it's not even for me anymore!We then return to the sailboat. Louis moves the boat a little and rinses it, because there is a lot of sand that sticks to it. I'm going to do the laundry.
I go there once for the first load, and a maintenance employee comes to see me when I leave, with a $10 in his hand. It fell out of my pockets. THANKS! I'm going to change at the marina for the next load.
So I come back after 30 minutes and take the wet sheets, put the clothes in the wash and go see the lady at the marina to see if it's worth going to the Teide volcano, because we can't do everything on our vacation. The maintenance employee comes back to see me to give me my access card which must have fallen out of my pocket. He tells me that it happens often, but after 2 times, I start to be embarrassed. I won't put anything in those 3/4 trouser pockets anymore.
The lady at the office told me to forget the hike on the volcano due to the heat, but she explained to me other ways to go there. I won't explain them to you here because Max and Andrea are coming to join us and we don't want to take the surprise away from them.
I go back to the boat to spread the sheets in the cockpit in a way that is a bit bulky, but pretty and that works. Anyway, Louis sleeps in the square and during this time, it will dry quickly.
I'm going back for a 3rd load of towels. It's starting to get expensive. But we want it clean for the arrival of our friends in a few days. And it's nice to have a clean boat. I will surely do some washing in the boat another time.
Back to the boat to discuss our next excursions and the rest of our trip. We book our next excursion before our friends arrive. We talk about diving and the fact that Louis doesn't think it's a good idea for me to go diving because I'm holding my nose in the water. We'll see.
Louis repairs part of the table inside, I hang out the laundry on the boat and go get the dry towels. As you can see, everything takes longer on the boat, but that allows us to take our time.
We then go to dinner at the same restaurant, this time we share a pizza and then go back to have an ice cream. A bit like yesterday with Marie-Andrée.
We spent a quiet evening, Louis listened to a film on the iPad and I went ahead with these stories.
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