lavanderia

So I just got my laundry done for the first time. If you're like me when I read "laundry mat" in the orientation packet you might assume this means I go to a place, put my clothes in the washer, sit and wait, maybe have ice cream, put them in the dryer, and leave. You would be wrong.

"Doing laundry" means taking my clothes to the lavanderia (which like so many things previously posted has an accent that I don't know how to insert) and drop it off with a guy who at first appears to be a girl given his slim figure, long hair, and that he wears more mascara than me, and then pick it up the next day. In my case I picked up my laundry as well as a few accidental pieces of someone else's laundry, someone else who had a few pieces of mine. That is how I do laundry, all for under $5 USD. The perk? Not doing my own laundry and the awesome scent that Mexican laundry has. So great!