i won a major award

so after a long week holding down the fort being travel agents, the dogs promptly woke me up at 5:45 in the morning. walking 3 dogs that have a difference in weight of about 75 lbs (2 giant dogs, 1 tiny one) we needed to go to our local supro compro (herein referred to as the blue store--this is versus the other supro mercado referred to as the green store which is not quite as good) for a few badly needed provisions--milk, eggs, chocolate ice cream, you know- the neccessities. and after staring at the twelve signs around the lettuce for 5 minutes trying to figure out which one was actually for the lettuce (turns out its "lechuga") i finally go to pay & have my usual conversation w/ the blue store checkout girl:

me: hola

her: buenos dias

me: como esta usted?

her: muy bien, y usted?

me: bien gracias

        -beep, beep, beep---scanning items i purchased

her: cuarenta mil colones

me: bien 

        handing over money all hell broke loose BELLS and WHISTLES galore shock me out of my          figuring out what other spanish words i knew

her: promocion!!! promocion!!!!

      w/ a mixed jumble of words, i finally came to understand that i won a major award, she          points to a christmas tree that has been up since october and says to pick an ornament (rojo or azul) and then to crush it. which took me a while, bc i really didnt think i could be interpreting this properly.. should i be breaking a glass- turns out to be plastic- ornament in their store? inside is the -gasp- major award. 

drumroll please..

"setas de ollas" is written on the paper

im not sure what those words mean but they told me to wait a minute, then a young store clerk comes out w/ a set of small silver pots.  i start cracking up and trying to explain that our house really needed a set of small silver pots (really meghan & i had just been saying so) i dont think they understood anything but that i was the most excited gringo theyd ever seen about winning a $5 pot set in a grocery store.

to this date we have not yet used them but thanksgiving dinner will be memorable thanks to the blue store supro compro christmas major award in november.