Driving Miss Dizzy...
Today we set out for the city of Guanajuato, which is supposedly about 30 minutes away from where we are staying. It was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. My husband programmed the GPS and we got on the road! After driving for 3 seconds, my MIL insisted that we stop to get gasoline right away (even though we had over half a tank and plenty to get there). Ok, not a bad idea.
As we pull out of the gas station there is a sign pointing clearly the way we need to go, so my husband heads that direction. Immediately my MIL contradicts him, the direction, and the GPS. He defers because she has "been here before." And we are trying to be polite. Around 3:30PM we realize we're nowhere near the city so my husband finally turns around, and to my amazement we STILL have people from the peanut gallery claiming to know the way to go. We head back the way we came and it is around 5PM and the GPS just keeps saying "Recalculating. <pause> Recalculating." The backseat drivers who managed to get us NOWHERE are still chirping and now they are actually accusing my husband of not listening to them! When we got back to the house, we checked a map and he was going the right way in the first place. Needless to say, we never made it to Guanajuato but we did (again, at their urging) go to the nearest mall where they tried to get me to eat in the food court. I put my frigging foot down over that one! With about 1000 amazing restaurants and places to eat well in this town hell if I'm going to a frigging food court. They're insane.
When I got home I had a shot of tequila (medicinal purposes) and a tablespoon of beans with fried plaintain. I couldn't stop myself! I tried to eat healthy for dinner and I passed on the dessert as well as the flan everyone ate when we got home. I had a decent day but make no mistake emotionally I wanted to chow down.
I know I sound like a huge, picky complainer. I really am not a complainer -- honestly. It is just sooo built up that if I don't vent somewhere...well...I will have to euthanize myself before I get into the car with them again ;)
If everyone who reads this wouldn't mind telling someone who annoys YOU to bugger off this week I would love to live vicariously through you. I just can't do that with this family -- it would be a critical setback after a lot of progress over the past 2 years.
Over and Out. And I will try to keep my damn spoon out of the beans.