Another Shopping Expedition...

We got up early this morning to see the youth group from Bethany off. They had said they were leaving no later than 7 -- but they weren't even up by then! They had gone to the Padres baseball game last night. There was a 51 minute rain delay, so they hadn't gotten to bed very early.

Soon after they finally got all their luggage loaded and left (at 9:30), Forry and I once more headed for Home Depot. Today I bought two 8 foot closet combination wire shelf and clothes rods, two 6 foot closet combos, two 2 foot combos for the hall closets and two 6 foot wire shelves for the laundries. I bought eight doorknobs, six of them just doorknobs and two of them with locks for the bathrooms plus eight doorstops. I bought 34 handles for cupboard doors; two oak bathroom light bars and eight G-25 globe light bulbs; two double towel racks; two hand towel rings; two toilet paper holders; one grab bar and one shower curtain rod.

The first Home Depot at Chula Vista didn't have the oak light bars in stock -- except for the sample on the wall -- so sent us up to the store in El Cajon to pick them up. They had them waiting for us at the Service Desk. Interestingly enough they gave us a fifty percent discount on the second one for our inconvienience in having to go to a different store. (Sure wish I had known that when I was buying laminated flooring!)

We decided that it would be easiest to do like I did the other day and take them directly to the proper houses rather then having to unload to safely store, sort and reload again on Monday with a new crew. We unloaded stuff at each house putting each knob, shelf and fitting in its appropriate room -- I wonder how long it will take for the crews to get them all mixed up?

Since it was late Saturday afternoon, the owner of House #2 was home from work -- and his brother, who speaks good English was also there. We were able to talk with them about the having a dedication for the house and actually set a date of April 25th.

It was after six when we finally got home and we weren't in the mood for leftovers again. The only other long-termer here had already eaten and didn't want to go along, but we headed back to Chula Vista to Pescados y Mariscos Hector's (Hector's Fish and Shrimp) for a scrumptious Mexican dinner of Crab Machaca (a plate of shredded crab and vegetables). Hector's is an interesting place, almost the entire clientele is Hispanic and the food is very much like what we've eaten in Mexico. It's a long way from the usual Tex-Mex.