GoodBye Sunscape Hello Mexico Day 1 and 2

After 3 days of massive clean out of things we could not take along and then cramming things into every tiny space available in the car we were ready to leave. I know if we come again, we will not bring alot of the things along that we did not use this time and we will down size food a lot earlier. It was shameful the amount of opened food we threw away. We did give away some of the unopened containers, like pop, salmon, and cheese. It seemed the last 2 weeks just flew by and time ran out for us.

We left Sunscape early Wed morning and dropped off the last garbage

and headed for Yuma. We had booked to stay at the Quechan Resort and Casino which is only a couple of miles from Algodones Mexico. We raced toward Yuma after being held up a half an hour or more due to traffic down to one lane as a big semi had smashed.
We got to the border and parked our car in the parking lot and walked quickly into town to find the dentist.
Now if you don't know ..Aldogones is a small Mexican town very near the border of California/Arizona...called Baja Calif. It is said there are over 400 dentists in a 6 block square radius plus hundreds of eye glass places and pharmacies as well. There are Mexican men all along the street calling out to you if you want a good dentist or pharmacy drugs.  Lots of Americans come to get their legal drugs and as well lots and lots of Canadians and Americans are getting dental crowns, implants and other dental work done at a 10th of what it costs at home. Of course "Cash only"
You see the very rich and the average person getting beautiful white smiles in a few days work.
I asked what it would cost for a complete upper plate, a partial lower plate and my last 4 front teeth cleaned and whitened. Total would be $500.
Now back to our arrival. We had recommendations of good dentists from a few different friends and chose the one that quoted the cheapest price for a new bottom plate.  With our little tiny business card  showing the map to the shop, in hand, we nearly ran down each street fighting off the hawkers to find the place as we thought we were late. I had forgot that there is no such a thing as late in Mexico or any other southern hot country... They all move at a speed slightly below slow.....
They must of thought us crazy as we loped down the middle of the street. We first turned the wrong direction and headed up the wrong way but after giving a couple of dollars to a man he told us to go the other way,  We finally found the little hole in the wall office and the tiny door sign that could have easily been missed if we had blinked.
We entered and the seats were all filled with other Canadians waiting for the dentist. The beautiful Marie who spoke perfect English welcomed us and took the information on what I required. She informed us to make a new plate and have it fitted, we would have to wait 3 days. We had figured 2 days not 3, and as our insurance will run out  by Monday, we knew we could not wait that long. She said she would have the dentist check to see if it could be repaired instead.  I was called in and handed over my plate that was in two separate pieces.... As he rolled his eyes I said..."They were in my pocket and just broke as I shrugged my shoulders. He played around trying to fit them together as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and then called in another Dr who the placed them into my mouth, held them pushed up to my four remaining teeth and the other Dr started shooting something in my mouth and then something like solder or glue being used to hold them together.... Quickly an impression was taken of the whole contraption in my mouth and said they would send it to a lab to see if they could redo the silver part to make it hold together. I was to come back the next day at 1 pm . They would do their best but no guarantee would be issued. 

Day 2 Mexico
I returned Thursday, waited an hour and was taken into office where the dentist put the plate into my mouth and then after finding many placed the gave me discomfort....he went out and ground and sanded down the spots about 4 times. It finally felt good and it was sent on my way to pay for the two days work.  I paid the $50 and I have been eating well ever since.... Now two things that were different from home ( well other than not understanding them and listening to Mexican music during procedure) was the fact that at no time was I given a bit of water to wash out the goop from the impression or the taste of his fingers and never was I shown a mirror to see how I looked.

We then headed towards the border as we knew the lines would be getting long. We had heard about the bikes with seats at the back that will take you in the car line, through the border check and then right to the walk way to the car park for only $5 a person.

 We found a line of people waiting and spent 90 mins waiting for our turn while others walked and passed us as they went through the border check. After an hour we were just all too stubborn to switch bike spots or go to the walk line and just waited it out.

We watched the guards with guns as they watched the cars go by and also visited with other misplaced people.....

Back to the hotel and spent the evening playing the slots.. I won $294 on one pull so that was kind of fun but soon I bored of the slots and headed up to the room to watch a bit of TV, Harvey followed soon and to sleep early.