We find ourselves staying at the Hotel Virginia, a place that happens to be right behind my Mom's sisters house, in a very lovely apartment that had recently been remodeled, beautiful tiled floors and a nice balcony. Yesterday, my uncle Beto proudly pointed to the side of the building where he had painted Hotel Virginia and Restaurant on the side of the building, he is of course...the local sign man;-) Again I find myself baffled by the art of the skeleton key;-). This time we have two skeleton keys on a very heavy key chain made of brass, so heavy in fact I find myself tightening my belt an additional notch just to keep my pants up! It takes a good minute of pulling on the first door and jostling the key into the hole
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