Recap of our busy weekend....

This recent weekend was a full one, a busy weekend that consisted of a birthday party, witnessing an offering to Buddha, wandering the markets, and then marching across the island in an attempt to find deodorant.

Yes, a search for deodorant that took us from the local supermarket, Rainbow, to Watson's, a UK chain that resembles a Walgreen's back in the States (Shopper's Drugmart to our Canadian followers), to the French Carrefour - think Walmart, and then finally to actually stop at Walmart. Yes, the Walmart stores that we had vowed never to go into again after our first, and second, foray into them with Rocky when we first moved here. Guess what? They're still super crowded, and as an added bonus - they too do not have deodorant.

Now I guess that's not entirely true, we have been able to find small bottles of Adidas antiperspirant, or bottles of Nivia antiperspirant, but I'm looking for deodorant and not antiperspirant and these are both in ladies scents. Ah the fun....

That's ok, as I slowly approach the end of my current supply I use it a little more sparingly; they don't notice at work, and I try to avoid any activity that would make me sweat. Not easy in a country where the believe there is something wrong with cooling a building below 28C (82F). We leave the country in two weeks for visa reasons, right now our only hope is that the civilized world that we land in has some supply of the ever-elusive deodorant....