We have had a pretty lazy weekend; yesterday morning we cleaned the laundry room from the work that had been done and then I headed down to the beach. I used to have this theory that the beach was quieter on Saturdays because that was the busiest day for hotel transfers. That theory fell apart yesterday when I could not find a sun lounger to sit on. I came home after a couple of hours and floated around in the pool on an inflatable for the afternoon. Last night we went to Mangoe’s for supper – a restaurant around the marina that opened last year and has provided consistent food quality and service since our first visit to it last November. We enjoyed a Caesar salad each and shared shrimp quesadillas. The Caesar salad is very good, firstly because I don’t seem to eat anywhere near as many salads as I do in Calgary and secondly because the waiter makes it tableside with the dressing made from scratch. The quesadillas were excellent with some very plump and large shrimp. With the addition of three drinks the bill came to a grand total of 320 pesos (~$27).
We arrived home to find our water dispenser leaking on to the floor and hence the physics lesson. We cleaned it up but it happened again this morning. There is literally almost nothing to go wrong with a plastic vessel that holds the large water bottles and has a small tap for dispensing the water but somehow ours appeared to defy this logic. Malcolm dragged out his tool box (not sure what for but it looked good) and the only thing we could think of was that maybe the bottle itself was defective. The plumbing was another story…. a pipe leading from our washing machine (lavadora) let go part the way through a washing cycle and we could hear water gushing down a service shaft on the side of the building and it also leaked out of the AC unit in our bedroom (the laundry room is upstairs where we go out to the roof). We did not like to call the plumber on a Sunday but it will be first on our list tomorrow morning.
I have been diligently practicing the art of making Pina Coladas although we ran out of jugo de pina tonight and had to use mango juice instead. I would like to say that they are almost perfect however I feel that more practice in both making and drinking them is definitely required!
Hasta luego...
Someone on the web agrees the water bottle's probably to blame....
ReplyDelete"The main reason is that there is a very fine hairline crack in the bottom of the water bottle. When the bottle is standing "neck up" on the floor, the crack is covered in water, and is so fine that water cannot escape through it. When you flip the container, air slowly seeps in through the crack. As we all know, water always finds its level. And if the bottle is not airtight and is allowing air to slowly come into the water bottle, the reservoir inside the cooler will overfill, and cause the cooler to "leak". My suggestion is to get another water bottle and try it. 99% of all cooler leaks are caused by cracks in the bottle."
Practice makes perfect!
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