El Mundo de Wally (Wally World, Mexican-style)

We are in Cancun this week...Hooray for sun and sand!!

For the past several years, Chris and I have travelled to Cancun with our friends, Dan and Pam Williams, who have a time share there. We always make a trip to Wal-Mart to stock the condo kitchen. Unusual sites abound....

This is definitely the tourist section. We rarely see locals on the

beach unless they are trying to sell us something!

Fresh, whole papaya. Some people love it but I prefer mango.

Anyone care for a fresh roll or pastry? Notice there is no glass on the front of the display case. In this self-serve bakery, you pick up a tray, choose your items (with your hands), and then take them to a counter where an attendant bags and tallies your selection. Thankfully, she uses plastic gloves to do so.

You can even purchase cake by the piece!

By the way, the price was not $4.50 US but 4.5 pesos, which is approximately fifty cents. This is Wal-Mart, after all!

This cactus is a staple in the Mexican diet. You could purchase it whole or chopped. It was right after I took this photo that the store manager told me in broken English, "No photos, no photos!" You can see that I continued taking pics but I was a little more discreet and often used Chris to run interference!

There were no glass cases in the meat or seafood departments

either. Since we were right on the Gulf of Mexico,

the fresh (?) seafood selection was incredible.

Octopus, anyone? Which kind of milk do you prefer...skim, 2%, whole? You can get it here in the unrefrigerated dairy section...in a carton, not a jug! Many things are different at the Wal-Mart in Mexico, but many things are the same. No matter what you call this little guy, we all know who he is!