Stranger in a Strange Land

Well today was my first day without work so I had to find a way to entertain myself besides sitting at the hotel all day. By about noon I was ready to strike out and even had eau du deet on to ward off the bugs. I figured today I would try and find the Zona Rosa that was a short distance away. It wasn't hard to find but there wasn't much to see either. The first place I went was the grocery store or Super Selectos as this one was called. Pretty much had everything I was used to seeing except for the armed guards. Guess the grocery store is a pretty dangerous place to be. In all reality though, I saw quite a few guards, armed and un-armed, around the area. The area seemed pretty safe and I guess that might be why.



Next I tried out the McDonald's that I ran across and it was surprisingly good. I'll have to keep it in mind since I'm sure I'll grow tired of the hotel food. Across from McDonald's were a couple shops that were nice. One of them was a book store which had US magazines but were for sale for about 7 bucks a pop. Pick-up Artist will be happy as I as able to find a creepy clown at one of the shops. Below is a shot of the zona rosa...like I said not much to it.



After the Zona I walked a short ways to this church I has seen in the morning on the way to the embassy. Not much to say about it but it was pretty.



Anyway after that I had about as much "sightseeing" I could handle and made my way back to the hotel. Not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow...possibly check out the mall, it seemed pretty nice. Random side note, besides being my title it is also the name of a song...can anyone name the artist? No cheating now ;)

I Want to Know What Love Is

Yesterday was fairly uneventful in the office but back at the hotel I had some excitement. I was reading in the paper yesterday that foreigner was in town for a concert and one of the sponsors was the Sheraton Presidente. The place that they were giving the concert was about a mile away so my logic in this was they were probably staying at the same hotel and I was right. I ended up riding in the elevator with one of the main band guys. Which one? I'm not sure. Below is a picture of the group and the guy that I saw is the one third from the left. I tried to find his name but I couldn't for the life of me. Does anyone know? Anyway it was pretty cool...of course I wish I could have looked a little better. I had just finished up in the gym downstairs so I probably looked pretty skanky to him.

Zzzzz......

Well, I'll be the first to acknowledge that this posting is a bore. It's just a photo of my room and the view that I can see from my balcony. At the same time that's about all of seen. Work was uneventful, I pretty much just sat there all day as everyone else was out of the office meaning there were no miracles made. I guess I'll just have to work extra hard for miracles tomorrow. Anyway, I'm off to meet up for dinner with the some others from the office and the TDYers. We're meeting at 8...thankfully I had some quesadillas earlier to tide me over.

Come Fly With Me...

Well, I managed to make it in one piece to San Salvador. I started off at national airport did a quick layover in Georgia and even managed to make it in early down here. When I got off the plane I got first class service and got not one but a two person police escort through customs so I was able to fly through there pretty quick. The temperature was something I wasn't used to. At the airport the temp was 99 degrees. Thankfully as we made our way inland the temp went to around 90 degrees. Side note here...did you ever wonder what happened to those awesomely bad 80's songs? Well, I quickly found out that they have a home down here on 92.9. All that channel plays is bad 80's but I loved it.
The hotel and room I have are nice. They thankfully didn't cheap out on the cable as I have 70 some odd channels to pick from a lot of them being American shows some dubbed in spanish but most just have subtitles. As I was flipping through the channels last night I came across Los Simpons...yay!! It is too funny watching simpsons dubbed in Spanish. One of last nights episodes was when they went to England. Now my question is when they are dubbing over do the people speaking spanish do a british accent? It seemed like they were trying to have a more "proper" voice but I don't know if such accents exists. The only downside is internet connection is a whopping 14 bucks a day but I found out that the office I'm working at has internet connection as well as several down in the caf.
Anyway, enough ramblings for now. I have a few pictures to put up but I'm going to wait to upload as I have to do them from my computer. Hopefully tonight I'll have them up as well as how my first day went.