Had to work a bit on Sunday (real work, not relocation work). So, I'm in the office at 9am; Decy and the girls are to pick me up at approx 230pm.  Plan was to go out on the Ilha (penisula) to the Coconuts restaurant and have a late lunch; then go home.

Get to Coconuts (which is an outdoor restaurant) and they are full up. Do you think they would offer us a chair to sit in while we are waiting for a table to open up??? Noooooo ... finally 15 minutes later we have a chair.  30 minutes later we have a table.

After thoroughly reviewing the menu, we pick our foods.  When the waiter comes .... seems everything we want they are out of.  So, we have to cycle, recycle, and re-recycle.  Get through the order process, food comes .... for the girls, theirs came all at once.  For Decy and I, the vegetables and rice came 10 minutes after the meat .... meat was then cold.  Got thru the meal, almost done, order a kilo to come pick us up.

We end up waiting an hour for a kilo (which was stationed only about 2 miles away from us) ... frustration and anger abounds ... especially after having gone thru the same ordeal on Saturday.  Ok ... time to get off the Ilha .... TRAFFIC !!!!  urrrggghhh .... 1 hour later (no joke) we have travelled 2 miles ... to where the kilo was originally stationed ... only to be told that "shift change" had occurred and we needed to change drivers.

So .... at 4pm we called the kilo ... at 615 pm we do the driver change out ... total travel time 2 miles ... remaining distance to home - - - 6 miles.  I think we could have walked faster ... it certainly would have been healthier !!!

ciao ciao