The first real adventure

What can I say?
Thank god, the day is over!

Everything started just so perfectly! I received an e-mail from a colleague from work with real good news (I don't know if I am allowed to tell already, so I just wait). I was so happy and made a big mistake: I checked the rest of my business e-mails.

And there the first shock arrived:
I received my phone bill for January: 17.000 €. Yes your right, that means 17 thousand Euros. Man, I was totally shocked. Of course I sent an e-mail to our mobile phone team, but still... I was shocked.

Then I finally left the house to go to the Nuevo Museo Soumaya. As most of you might now, I am very typical German, so I was well prepared, my map knew where to go and I followed the map. The adress was copied directly from the official document of the museum. Funny enough, the adress is wrong... there is no museum at all at this adress. So I went on walking until I arrived the mall in Polanco... there I connected to the internet again and did VERY MUCH research until I found another adress...

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I just had dinner and a bottle of wine with Paty and Carlos and now I am feeling much better ;-)

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so I started walking again... the google-directions were very creative again, but at least I saw the building and could adjust my route to finally get there.

In a later post, i will do a short retrospective (as I am in the sprint-mode now) on the museum.

After the museum I hit the metro again to go shopping at Parque Deta (which was my shopping place already four years ago).
There, the next adventure started.

I just can advice you to not try to pay with credit-card at Liverpool. I tried it. And according to the girl at the cash desk, my card never was accepted. But according to the messages, the credit card company sent to my mobile phone, my card was charged 7!!!! times with 1028 Mexican Pesos. I of course complained and after long discussions in spanish, I was led to the departamento de credito to discuss it any further. At the end they gave me a bottle of wine (but I had to ask for it) and I have to check my account tomorrow to find out if my card really was charged, if yes, then I have to contact my bank... hahaha... of course I have to contact my bank. I am just so so happy that I have skype out.

After this experience I left the mall to go back home. And lucky me, it just started to rain again, so I got soaking wet... I guess just what you have to expect from a day like this.

Finally back at home, I checked my work e-mail again and the good news is: the phone bill is wrong. The big german provider, starting with a T had it all wrong and there are some guys from my company working it out... one thing less to worry about.

And now I am going to watch RIO totally in Spanish. But at least I will get salted popcorn.

The plan for tomorrow? Talk to my bank about my credit card and then go and take pictures with the BIG camera in order to get used to it.