What Marlene Forgot to Mention

Marlene forgot to mention some of the greatest tragedies of the quake... Two of the mexican restaurants in Christchurch (probably the only 2) were destroyed in the earthquake. In fact one of the most famous pictures from the quake is of one of the restaurants completely void of its external walls. This far from Mexico though, one can't expect the Mexican food in restaurants to be that great, so we'll probably make our own Mexican food....maybe... So far we've been to 1 Asian grocery store, 1 international grocery store (the largest in NZ), and several regular grocery stores, and we haven't found a single chile aside from bell peppers. No thai chiles, no jalapenos, no nothing. No heat at all.... There is a specialty store that sells such things, but it too has been damaged in the quake. Hmph!