Ropa Usada

We finally made it to a "ropa usada" store today. Several friends had told us this was an experience not to be missed. "Ropa usada" is Spanish for "used clothing," but the ropa usada stores are something unique. Bales of clothing are spread in heaps in a warehouse and sold by the pound. Customers climb and burrow through the mountains of clothing and other fabric items. We went with Gary and Mary Ann to the Tres Dimensiones Ropa Usada, but it is only one of many in the Valley. All the leftover used clothing in the country must find its way here.

Lee and Mary Ann each found a few treasures amid the trash.

Then we drove down to the Dodge Arena, where Gary and Mary Ann bought tickets for a Monster Truck Show performance tomorrow. We could hear the roar of the engines inside the arena from where we stood at the box office.

We decided to go to the Old Hidalgo Pumphouse Museum. The Pumphouse once was the irrigation source that turned the valley into productive agricultural land, but it was shut down in 1983 and now is a museum and the grounds are a World Birding Center location. Unfortunately the museum is closed on Saturdays, but we walked around the grounds.

















For breakfast we had baked eggs in mashed potato nests. They turned out pretty good, but messy, since the muffin tins I used were too small. For supper we had sloppy joes, tomato soup, and cole slaw, with chocolate cobbler and vanilla ice cream for dessert. Ken said that sloppy joes are his favorite comfort food.