Hey NACHO RT74!

[Tom]

Stay safe my friend.  I saw a CNN headline earlier that 22 people had been killed in the protests.

[Nacho-RT74]

Firts eagle has landed... repeat, the first eagle has landed

Sooner than expected... was in Caracas in fact since friday but with all the manifestations around the shipper decided to wait for the delivery

pics soon

[DynoDave]

That's great news. I was getting worried about the security in port, and during transport to your home.

[Nacho-RT74]

The first ones where the ones Tom sent. The rest left Miami last Friday and should be here in 2 weeks. My shipper told me they got shortened the shipping times from Miami.

[Nacho-RT74]

OK guys... Updating.

I have being REALLY busy, solving personal and home ( and uncle ) issues all this week so I haven't being able to be around for long time to post peacefully.

here are the box arrived on Tuesday, EVEN they were at the local warehouse since friday.




and ALL THINGS ARRIVED JUST RIGHT ON TIME... the cooking oil was allmost done, we began to use the shampoo and soap I take from hotels when I go to jobs inside the country

[Nacho-RT74]

I didn't took pic of all the stuff on boxes, don't think is necessary... but you know ?
HOW WONDERFULL is onece again taste a glass of milk with chocolat and cereals!!!
I LOVED the peanut butter taste allong with jam!!!
HOW GREAT is wash my head with a REAL Shampoo!!! ( all the big brands are gone from Venezuela and we find bad quality ones, expensive of course )

those are my first feelings about this.

Two days ago I went to a supermarket ( not close to home ) and honestly, was really GOOD stocked, but when you check the prices... is hard to think on spend that ammount of money

we are able to find latelly powered milk, some beans, codensed milk, cereals, some of the stuff sent.... but WOW! when you check prices and think every penny will last long just a breath... is hard to think on spend every penny on anything. If the job situation wasn't so hard like it is now, maybe this help wasn't REALLY necesary, because I could be able to buy imported and black market products, but is not posible to me, at least not now.

Of course I spent US$340 on get all these box delivered ( around 21 cubic feet ) but honestly I THINK that is cheaper that get it locally ( of course for me... wasn't posible if you didn't do it ) specially in the long therm. Some of the stuff shipped is virtually imposible around here ( weath flour for example ). Some of the stuff will last long maybe 4 or 5 months, some other will last long just couple of months and some other couple of weeks but how great is be able to taste and eat everything without ALL the restrictions we have to keep ourself to be able to eat at next day, or next week. Of course I can't eat everything freely yet, I have to keep still some of the restrictions at home, but now is more pleasant!

It's a shame we'll still have to make lines in front of bakeries maybe for an hour to get two pieces of bread and keep tasting the peanut butter, but now I'll have something to fill it!. Mostly sure the peanut butter will last long 3 or 4 months and the jam just 1 month or month an a half, but my mom can make jam ( now that we have SUGAR ) and jam jars are available around... not cheap ( like the rest of stuff not price controled by the goverment ), but still available. We still will need to make lines on local products quite often but now we will have to chose if line is too long not to make it, because we are sure still got some food at home. Fortunatelly, fresh products like vegetables, fruits are available freely, although not cheap, but we can detour the small funds I still have to those things.

Meat, Chicken and Fish are becoming allmost unobtainable latelly... prices rised allmost double on last 2 weeks... but... we can't save that. Fresh cheese is on same situation.

Really thanks

[Nacho-RT74]

BTW, I'm amazed about the powdered eggs tatse... its really nice... although we still have to get the trick to use it. Didn't like the instruction rates for the mix. Still have to try the powdered butter...

AND I'll have to fix the oven now, because some of the stuff requires the oven. Got damaged some months ago, but seems to be an easy fix.

what exactly is the corn starch and some other stuff but will find out! L:O:L

[DynoDave]

I'm glad to see some of these items have started making their way to you and your family Nacho.

[Nacho-RT74]

Yes Dave!

and still waiting for the second eagle to land... maybe in a week and a half.

[Nacho-RT74]

I'm trying to figure out how to get a medicine from USA, but up there requires prescription... not locally thought. It has being maybe 8 or 10 months since last time I found it