Caray, Caray!

Well we open with the poignant death of Don Tio Tim…I’m gonna miss you Tim. After much shrieking and running in circles, Anna Nichol, sorry I mean Cami figures out behind every cloud there lies a silver lining..Whooopeee she is free.

Move on to the funeral, lots of people dressed in black, incense..so on so forth. Go toward the light or at least keep that in mind after you finish what maybe a rather lengthy stint in purgatory.

Tia Fran & Lisabeta discuss what else? Ric, Fran mentions a letter from Ric. Oh look there he is, thru the miracle of TeleVista we are transported to the jungles of Africa, Hey look out of respect to his dead Tio he is dressed in black. Oh wait, never mind. Anyway he is sending a letter, he will soon be returning from his spring break.

Now back at the Casa de Cami, she asks servant guy, Ascanio, about his past. He has been a servant for 20 years. His mother and sister are dead. Cami invites him to toss away his powdered wig and come live in Mexico.
Cami is in the bedroom going through a chest, she finds a few ducats in some little pouches, look there are Tiny Tio Tim’s little hand canes lying on the bed. Just like that “Christmas Future” scene with the crutch in the corner.

Cami goes out into the countryside and finds Jimena, her friend from the ship. She buys Jimena’s freedom. Jimena is scoping Ascanio out and I think we may have the beginnings of a beautiful relationship here. Onward to Claudio, the boy from the ship. He sees Cami and starts to run toward her, when he is smacked down by the overseer. Ascanio puts a stop the that, the patrona is a lady & overseer guy will die. Anyway she buys Claudio’s freedom and they take Claudio with them, poor brother Angel died. This was a “Gone with the Wind Scene” with Red Haired woman dressed in Black, hugging a poor slave boy in the fields, well or it would have been had Scarlett not been a proud rich slave owner…but anyway the music swelled magnificently as we go to commercial.

Now time for the reading of the will. Three women dressed in black, Cami, Tia Francisca, and Lisabeta. Don Tio Tim, being of sound mind and body (well except for the crutches, bad heart and organ failure (yes that organ), leaves everything to his lil cupcake Cami. This allows Lisabeta and Francisca, to gnash their teeth, wail, and almost but not quite rip their elaborate wigs off. The lawyer, states that Lisabeta has been left some poor ass farm. The women accuse Cami of being a witch. She must have besotted the poor man with her wily ways. This term continues to be used in cases such as this even today, with only a slight variation on the spelling. Cami good and true offers to give some to the wailing women. Okay, hold on their lil missy, Don Tio Tim has written Part II, in the event that Cami tries to give any away, the entire fortune will go to the FreeMasons & Cami will remain a slave. Well personally that says it all for me. It is a done deal. This bothers Cami quit a bit, me not so much.

Crazy ass Mercedes, Ric’s ma is hanging around the street, her fingers are itching to clutch some golden ducats…The two crows tell her that Tim left it all to Cami except for that poor ass piece of land. “What about Ric?” queries his crazy ass mother. “Nada”. Dona Mercedes, faints in the street, Tia Fran runs off for help leaving blind Lis to wonder if Mercedes has injured her head. Please not with gi-normous spider’s nest perched on her head, she couldn’t have had more protection had she been encased in bubble wrap. Seriously, Don Tio Tim lived a life of regret that he didn’t marry this woman? I think he would have thanked his brother each and every day for taking a bullet for him.

Okay the four musketeers are packing up and getting ready to go back to Mexico, Cami asks each and everyone for their opinion. Claudio sums it up best with take your choice “Rich and Free” or “Poor and a Slave”. What is Cami not getting about this? We also get a brief lesson from Claudio on the FreeMasons, who knew Uncle Tim was a major Union Supporter?

She talks to Ascanio, asks him about Lisabetha & Tia Fran, were they nice to him? Seriously this girl has seen her finance speared, the town rich but flacid horndog try to nail her on pre wedding night, gang raped by pirates, sold in the town square, held prisoner by old guy & forced to marry. If it wasn’t for the fact that she apparently emits some form of pheromones that when mixed with element of gold from the dust on rich guys hands, and a chemical is rendered that makes them impotent; she would have been barin the Varon. So move on little Mary Sunshine.

Ascanio tells her they treated him like a servant. Next we see Ascanio lowering a chest down into a courtyard. Is he making off with the loot? Now Cami asks if anyone saw him? No he replies.
Lis & Fran find it the next morning. Praise be to Ric, he must have left a big ol heaping helping of pirate booty for them. Yeah that’s the answer.

Back in San Fernando, Dona Sofie is chatting up Pa Justo in the street, is Rita happy & is Santiago? We see a bride getting out of a coach. I guess Rita is jumping the broom with Santi.
Now you would think being a blacksmith, Santi would recognize the sound of a gigantic anvil falling. As John Donne would say, “For whom the Anvil Falls…it Falls for Thee”.

Our newly freed foursome boards a ship to carry them back to Mexico, smooth sailing ahead.

Creepy guy, Alberto LaFont, (personally I think it is great that Eddie Munster, has gotten work. Have you checked out that strange hair that grows down his forehead to his eyebrows?), comes in and talks to Don Jorge about the shipping of silver from the mines that will be absconded by pirates. Eddie asks if they have found a husband for Ursela yet? He is still interested. Pa Jorge says no, but she would like a newer model than Alberto LaFont.

Meanwhile, Ursela is being forced to look at lunch boxes with letters of recommendation & tiny portraits of suitors, some are dukes and so on. She is none too thrilled, she doesn’t want to marry now and has no interest in popping out a grandson for Don Jorge.

LaFont forces his daughter to tell him that Ursela is still doing the Vasco deed, Ursela is furious with her friend.

On the ship all is fine, Cami thinks of how wonderful it is going to be when she see Santi again. Was that a dolphin? A splash from that monster Moby Dick? No alas it was an anvil off portside.

Hey it is back to beach, Ric is home and the natives who thrive off of plunder and booty are lining up for a Conga Line. The pirates life for me. Mario, Ric and another pirate and drinking wine. I must say, nice beard braid Mario. Mario asks where the ship the La Camila is? Lazaro has taken it off on an adventure. Ooops, that’s not good. Other pirate says Lazaro left two letters and he leaves to get them.

On the ship of promises, Jimena, Cami & Claudio are snacking away. Ascanio brings something to the table. Cami tells him to sit with them, he is clearly uncomfortable, but she tells him no more servants, they are all family.

Now we see Cami & Jimena in a wagon with a light cover over it. Cami is dressed all in white. Is that a Wedding Dress? Did you save the receipt? Ahhhhh the drama, Cami wants to go see Pa, before she goes to see Santi. We see Santi & the doublemint twins coming out of the blacksmith shop to watch the wagon. Santi looks as if the tie that binds is still spiritually holding him to his True Love, but actually the twins look the same way.

Stay tuned for more reasons to be thankful you were born 200+ years later.

Tomorrow we see Santi reach for Cami’s hand, oooops he has a gold band on his left hand.
Cami wails…

We also see a scene of Ric crying, pirates do not cry.

My advice Cami, take a deep breath, Santi just married Jan Brady and has a bad limp, those cane hands would have made a thoughtful wedding present, but you are personally rich.

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