Luna....To me grocery shopping in RP is an adventure that takes place between my breakfast Bloody Mary and my lunch Tecates.
I really don't care much for the Bodega but enjoy the Super Ley and Santa Fe. I had a nice older Mexican man approach me in
Santa Fe one day and asked me why I wasn't buying rice and Beans. In my broken Spanglish I tried to explain that I do indeed
love rice and beans but I love potatoes more. We had a nice chat and I felt I had met another friend.
Next time down, I'm going to try the new Merced Market off of Calle 13. I'm told they used to have a great butcher and I'm
going to give it a shot.
Try it Luna, it can be fun. I hate shopping for dirty t-shirts and nick nacks so I do this once every visit.
Sorry but grocery shopping is a chore and something I refuse to do on vacation. I also do not do laundry or clean house (but I do cook a little, hence the suppllies)! Now we have ventured to the stores to pick up something we may have forgotten or ran out of and that is fine.
Vacation to me is not having to be responsible . . . I get enough of that in every day life north of the border. Vacation to me is total and complete R&R! Sleep in late, take a nap, go to bed early? Watch the dolphins play while having morning coffee. Take a nap? Go to the beach or go the pool or both? Take another nap? Hunt for treasures from the sea and play with my big doggie on the beach? Take another nap? Have a drink, or 2, or 3? Read a book? Etc., etc., etc. Get the picture.
BTW . . . I DO enjoy shopping for nick nacks. Of course they are things I do not need but enjoy picking up a little treasure to remind me of Mexico until I am able to return again. We also enjoy occasionally going out to eat, also part of what vacation is to me.
Apparently, we have very different opinions about what a vacation is but as long as we are happy and enjoying ourselves who really cares right?