The last few days have been insane! Everyone is trying to squeeze one last job out of me. I got an unexpected project on Tuesday that I couldn’t pass up and that has meant very, very, very, very long work days. Any breaks are spent starting on laundry, packing, and cleaning.

I asked my friends L&N if they wanted to go to Miguel’s for dinner tomorrow night, but that didn’t work for them. They asked me to instead join them at El Velero for lunch today.

So I did and I wound up being there for almost three hours! I didn’t really have that much time to spend there, but it was nice to chat with friends and just take a break before the final push.

El Velero is really popular with the Canadians, but I don’t find it great and it’s rather expensive. But I’d heard all winter about their ‘Imperial’ shrimp. I decided to do a splurge (and at $140, what a splurge it is!) and try them out.

They are huge shrimp stuff with cheese and wrapped in bacon and very delicious! I managed to make two meals out of the dish (have supper waiting for me later!), so that amortized the cost somewhat. But it came with just a tiny scoop of rice and frozen veggies (what?!) so it really wasn’t that special. I’m glad I tried it and the shrimp were amazing, but it’s not something I’d have again. I had a mineral water limonada with it since I had to get back to work after. Yum!

I came in to find another small job waiting for me related to the Tuesday project, which explains why I haven’t been paid yet. So I’ll do that tonight and hopefully will get paid tomorrow. I’m a little tight in my April budget, so this project being something of a windfall, I’m allowing myself to access the funds next week rather than waiting till May. Normally, money made one month is only accessible the following month, even if paid the same month, but I’m going to have some overlapping April/May expenses, so this will be much appreciated bridging funds.

Contessa sent me a link to information about protests shutting down the Mex-15 cuota between Maz and Culiacán. So I think that is the universe possibly trying to save me several hundred pesos. It took me five hours to do Guamúchil to Maz city limits, so there is no way I’m doing that entire trip by libre, but I think I’ll do the libre to Culiacán, check traffic on my phone, and get on the cuota there if everything’s okay.

Back to work I go. And by that, I’m not sure yet if I mean typing or packing…