Tuesday, September 12, 1995 - Curaco

(The logs from August 22 to September 11 are no where to be found?) Went downtown on the eleven-o'clock bus. Roy bought something at a drugstore while I went to the post office to mail Meghan's present. I was totally stunned by the amount of postage for a small, light package. Also checked for General Delivery mail, but as usual, there was nothing. Walked to Immigration and got our extension. They asked why we wanted to stay longer, which surprised us. Roy said we were waiting out the hurricane season. Went to the Tourist Information office to find out where Radio Shack or some other electronics parts store is. Roy needs to buy a small-point soldering iron to try to repair the handheld VHF radio. They gave us the address of a place called Microtech. We knew it would be closed for siesta at that hour, so we ate lunch at McDonald's and then took a bus ride to Santa Catarina just to see what was there. Nothing to shout about. On the way back, we got off at Promenade Plaza and went to Microtech. They didn't carry soldering irons, but they told us where we could get one. The man was very nice. He was going into town, so he gave us a ride. The place he told us about was Jimmy's Electronics in Otrobanda. Sure enough, they had a suitable soldering iron, so Roy bought it and some solder. The Super Jumbo Colon Market was next door, so we went there and bought a couple of things. Roy had his hair cut in a little local barber shop. The barber didn't speak English, but he did a good job. When I first saw Roy after the haircut, I nearly disowned him, because his hair was all slicked down and he had bangs! Fortunately, the wind quickly dried his hair and blew the bangs back where they belonged. Then he looked great. Best haircut he's had since I've known him.