Wednesday December 29th to Friday December 31st, 2010
Up bright and early (well for me early, I got up at 9:30) to get ready for our Bad Santa Party. Now, if anyone doesn’t know what Bad Santa is I will tell you, it is a movie with Billy Bob Thornton being a really, really, really bad Santa Claus. He curses the kids, drinks to way excess and robs the stores he is hired in on the 24th, he has a mini person accomplice playing his elf…………anyway the movie is so bad it’s kinda funny! Sue and Harold have wanted us to have a movie night to watch this movie and since it is Christmas and Ross and I have been craving turkey we thought we would have a small party, buy a turkey and watch the movie. Well, the small party turned into I think 15 people (I can’t remember if I counted Ross and I in that total or not), so we got a fairly large turkey. I prepared the stuffing and was ready to stuff the bird when Ross opened the wrapping on the turkey and guess what??? The skin was already brown………………we bought a smoked turkey!!! How do you stuff an already cooked bird…………….will it taste the same????????????? Ross went back to Mega, at my request, to see if they had a regular thawed turkey that I could cook instead, well, I guess smoked turkey is all the rage here in Mexico cause Mega and Walmart didn’t have any regular turkeys. Once I settled down (from pulling my hair out) I decided to go with what we had, and cross our fingers it would be ok, what else could I do? I stuffed the cavity of (oh my god……..we forgot to name the turkey, that is kinda a thing I started a long time ago, I will call him Smoky), and we put Smoky in our big roaster we brought down with us as to keep Smoky warm as he was already thawed and we didn’t want to poison anyone!!!
All in all the meal was ok, I am not really impressed with the flavor of smoked turkey but it was very juicy and the rest of the meal turned out well. I had sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, broccoli, Sue’s church corn, of course cranberry sauce, wild rice (and people loved it), stuffing and unfortunately we had to buy gravy, which actually wasn’t bad. We found some really good polish sausage here with little bits of jalapeño in it; we cut that up and had some cheddar cheese with Ritz crackers for nibblies. Roxana brought over a wonderful cold noodle salad (which was good because I forgot all about having a salad) and both Dick and Mary Carmen and Ronnie and Tony brought over cake for dessert!
We ate then watched the movie outside with the projector then chatted for a while before everyone left stuffed and happy……..at least I think so! We will have to make this an annual event, so watch for Bad Santa party number 2 at the end of 2011!
Thursday was our holiday party with the Beta Sigma Phi sisters; we had it at Karen King’s house, which happens to be in Los Mangos, a really nice gated community about a block from our house (as the crow flies). We had to bring our secret sister gift (I didn’t have a secret sister as I had just joined, but I have one now!) and a white elephant gift. After our meeting we had a beautiful buffet of appetizers everyone brought, wow, it was pretty awesome, food galore! We exchanged the secret sister gifts then the fun began. We put all the white elephant gifts (these are things you find in your home that either you don’t want anymore or think another person would like it better) in the centre and we picked a number from 1 to 13 (the number of gifts there were) and the first person picks a gift and opens it. The person who picked number 2 could either steal the other person’s gift or select another one; number 3 person could steal the gifts from person one or two or pick another gift to open. What fun we had, I had number 6 and I got 4 really nice square coffee cups, they have a yellow and blue stripe.
Thursday night we went to Philos for the open mike jam, always a good time, the place was just packed. Ross played for a bit, he always loves to do that!!!
New Years Eve! We were going to go to Los Arroyos Verde for a 5 course meal and listen to Tom Lilienthal and friends, when Ross was asked to play at Britannia Pub in La Cruz! Now Tom plays bass and lives down here full time (he just got engaged to be married) but when living in the states he played with a band for about 40 years in San Francisco. These friends came down to play with Tom here and Ross loaned them a drum kit and sound gear, to pay him back they offered to pay for us to eat and listen to them. Instead we went to Britannia and stayed there until (I think) 3am. What a night, Mike even came up to play for a bit (he is the guy that need facial reconstruction surgery after hitting a horse coming home from a gig). Mandy put out a beautiful buffet, salmon, cold cuts, pickles, roast pork hors d’oeuvres, potato salad, coleslaw and a bunch of other stuff (I asked Ross cause I couldn’t remember it all, he did!!!)
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday December 23rd to Tuesday December 28th, 2010
Thursday December 23rd to Tuesday December 28th, 2010
Wow, have we had some terrific times these past few days…………where to start………..where to start??? “We’ll start at the very beginning, that’s a very good place to start” oops sorry I just burst into song…………………..I just watched The Sound of Music the other night (notice I didn’t say we)!!! I read this part of my blog to Ross, which is odd, cause I never do that, and he said I sounded like Dr. Seuss!!
Thursday December 23rd was another beautiful day in Bucerias! Cecilla my new cleaning lady came today, she pointed to my ceiling fans, yes, yes, please clean them, I have no idea how they get so dirty so fast, though mind you I don’t have them on all the time as it’s not super hot in the morning or nights anymore. Tonight we went to a caroling posada at Linda’s and Doug’s house, oh what fun we had, we ate and chatted, then ate some more! Everyone (well almost) was there, at whatever time it was, we all sat and sang Christmas carols while a lady played the keyboard, we also had a stand up bass and a mandolin! At the very end of our caroling we all sang the 12 days of Christmas, not only did we sing we did hand movements too, it was a blast!
Friday…………..Happy/Merry Christmas Eve we were invited to Dick and Mary Carmen’s house for a US/Mexican feast! We brought them a little something and a box of my Christmas cookies, their Christmas tree was amazing, they bought it at Mega the day of our Peace animal adoption, so green and very real………….no fake stuff for them! We had a very nice dinner, it started out with a chowder soup, then we had some salted fish (Dick said it was baby shark but we also heard it can be cod)……….this fish was very interesting, kinda flaked/chunked in a sauce with olives, an acquired taste me thinks! Then came the good stuff, ham with green beans and sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top……………yummy! After supper they passed around the presents, we even got some; I got a very nice aroma therapy thingyamabob that you put a tea light candle in the bottom and the melted wax on top. (Ross and I sat for a good 2 minutes trying to remember what it is called but couldn’t come up with the name). Any one that remembers it can let me know what the name of it is……………………..or not!!! Ross got a Christmas tree of ferrero rocher chocolates, yum, he says he has never had one before; I think he has and just forgot!!!
Merry Christmas
And what a super day it was. Ross finally got out of bed around 12 and we opened presents. Santa got Ross a man bag (I threatened him I would if he keeps loosing things, which of course he will never, use!) and the critters got him a very nice t-shirt with geckos on it, something he can where when we go some place fancy!!! I got a very nice elf extension cord (shall I kill him now?), a ceramic Christmas tree that is missing the star on top, an M&M elf with candies and a 2011 Bombero (firefighter) calendar. Whoopee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Around one thirty I left to go over to Sue and Harold’s to help Sue get ready for their Annual Christmas day BBQ party, which I’m glad I went as Harold ended up having to do an airport run so we ended up doing most of everything, including BBQing the arrachera (but as I am typing this I am thinking about, really, how much do the guys do to get ready for a party??) Ross came and put the peligro tape up to block the road then got the tables and chairs out on the road, as people came the dining table got fuller and fuller and fuller, wow I am always amazed on how pot luck dinners come together, never too much of one thing! There was the arrachera, Sue’s famous church corn, beans, devilled eggs, salads, very good spicy sausage (Ross brought that along with 2 containers of donuts) and I also brought my last box of Christmas cookies, thank god, I’m getting fat! I truly believe a good time was had by all, everyone was outside chatting, eating and drinking, I’m afraid to say we were some of the last to leave, but before I close this paragraph I need to tell you about someone that was at the party. Roxana has a house guest right now and brought her to the party, her name is Brenda and to her benefit she did bring a dish to share…………….but she left with a grocery bag full of food! Do you believe this, Harold saw her but thought she was either bring it in or taking her stuff home with her!!!
Happy Boxing Day! Or happy festivus!
There sure is a whole lot of Happy’s going around right now! We have been invited to a festivus party, now; at least I didn’t know what this was, until I was told it is a Seinfeld thing, George’s father started it, the tree is an aluminum pole and they all sit around the dinner table airing their grievances to each other! How much fun could that be you ask??? Well let me tell you……………..it was a blast! We went to Judy and Dennis’s house, wow, you have your back to their condo first you see an in ground pool, a little farther you see some grass then you look a little farther and you see the beach and ocean! Magnificent!!
There must have been t least 30 people there all having a great time, there was a pole but that was about the only thing the same as the TV show. We had a blast, the food was great, we had ham, beans, potato, salads, BBQ’d little wieners, deviled eggs…do you see a pattern to my blogs, there is food, then food, then more food!
Well, all I can tell you Monday there wasn’t as much food………………well just what we had in the house, other than Ross going to his meeting we did nothing (except maybe finishing the last 2 episodes of corrie we recorded on Sunday). I did some laundry and put it in the dryer went to get it out of the dryer and it was still wet, damn it, we ran out of propane!!! I called to get our tank filled up but they didn’t get there until 7pm so I guess it was a good thing we stayed home since we didn’t have showers, (I guess Ross just used a lot of deodorant when he went to his meeting).
Today, being Tuesday we are sitting at the office, which we might have 2 leads, peole looking to purchase down here!! Hurray for us! Sue came by to chat, which I am really glad she did cause I found out I needed to bring a white elephant gift to our BSP holiday party on Thursday………………yes I know it never ends! We maybe going to Britannia tonight for their open jam………….I think mostly to see how Mike is doing after his horse incident!
Tomorrow we are throwing a Bad Santa (movie) party (it is all Sue and Harold’s fault…they wanted to share the movie with us, we wanted a turkey……………..so now we have about 12 people coming over to our house tomorrow for turkey dinner and a movie……….how do we get ourselves into messes like this???????? We are having turkey, potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, Sue is bring church corn, gravy, dressing………………… There better be turkey leftovers!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
Wow, have we had some terrific times these past few days…………where to start………..where to start??? “We’ll start at the very beginning, that’s a very good place to start” oops sorry I just burst into song…………………..I just watched The Sound of Music the other night (notice I didn’t say we)!!! I read this part of my blog to Ross, which is odd, cause I never do that, and he said I sounded like Dr. Seuss!!
Thursday December 23rd was another beautiful day in Bucerias! Cecilla my new cleaning lady came today, she pointed to my ceiling fans, yes, yes, please clean them, I have no idea how they get so dirty so fast, though mind you I don’t have them on all the time as it’s not super hot in the morning or nights anymore. Tonight we went to a caroling posada at Linda’s and Doug’s house, oh what fun we had, we ate and chatted, then ate some more! Everyone (well almost) was there, at whatever time it was, we all sat and sang Christmas carols while a lady played the keyboard, we also had a stand up bass and a mandolin! At the very end of our caroling we all sang the 12 days of Christmas, not only did we sing we did hand movements too, it was a blast!
Friday…………..Happy/Merry Christmas Eve we were invited to Dick and Mary Carmen’s house for a US/Mexican feast! We brought them a little something and a box of my Christmas cookies, their Christmas tree was amazing, they bought it at Mega the day of our Peace animal adoption, so green and very real………….no fake stuff for them! We had a very nice dinner, it started out with a chowder soup, then we had some salted fish (Dick said it was baby shark but we also heard it can be cod)……….this fish was very interesting, kinda flaked/chunked in a sauce with olives, an acquired taste me thinks! Then came the good stuff, ham with green beans and sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top……………yummy! After supper they passed around the presents, we even got some; I got a very nice aroma therapy thingyamabob that you put a tea light candle in the bottom and the melted wax on top. (Ross and I sat for a good 2 minutes trying to remember what it is called but couldn’t come up with the name). Any one that remembers it can let me know what the name of it is……………………..or not!!! Ross got a Christmas tree of ferrero rocher chocolates, yum, he says he has never had one before; I think he has and just forgot!!!
Merry Christmas
And what a super day it was. Ross finally got out of bed around 12 and we opened presents. Santa got Ross a man bag (I threatened him I would if he keeps loosing things, which of course he will never, use!) and the critters got him a very nice t-shirt with geckos on it, something he can where when we go some place fancy!!! I got a very nice elf extension cord (shall I kill him now?), a ceramic Christmas tree that is missing the star on top, an M&M elf with candies and a 2011 Bombero (firefighter) calendar. Whoopee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Around one thirty I left to go over to Sue and Harold’s to help Sue get ready for their Annual Christmas day BBQ party, which I’m glad I went as Harold ended up having to do an airport run so we ended up doing most of everything, including BBQing the arrachera (but as I am typing this I am thinking about, really, how much do the guys do to get ready for a party??) Ross came and put the peligro tape up to block the road then got the tables and chairs out on the road, as people came the dining table got fuller and fuller and fuller, wow I am always amazed on how pot luck dinners come together, never too much of one thing! There was the arrachera, Sue’s famous church corn, beans, devilled eggs, salads, very good spicy sausage (Ross brought that along with 2 containers of donuts) and I also brought my last box of Christmas cookies, thank god, I’m getting fat! I truly believe a good time was had by all, everyone was outside chatting, eating and drinking, I’m afraid to say we were some of the last to leave, but before I close this paragraph I need to tell you about someone that was at the party. Roxana has a house guest right now and brought her to the party, her name is Brenda and to her benefit she did bring a dish to share…………….but she left with a grocery bag full of food! Do you believe this, Harold saw her but thought she was either bring it in or taking her stuff home with her!!!
Happy Boxing Day! Or happy festivus!
There sure is a whole lot of Happy’s going around right now! We have been invited to a festivus party, now; at least I didn’t know what this was, until I was told it is a Seinfeld thing, George’s father started it, the tree is an aluminum pole and they all sit around the dinner table airing their grievances to each other! How much fun could that be you ask??? Well let me tell you……………..it was a blast! We went to Judy and Dennis’s house, wow, you have your back to their condo first you see an in ground pool, a little farther you see some grass then you look a little farther and you see the beach and ocean! Magnificent!!
There must have been t least 30 people there all having a great time, there was a pole but that was about the only thing the same as the TV show. We had a blast, the food was great, we had ham, beans, potato, salads, BBQ’d little wieners, deviled eggs…do you see a pattern to my blogs, there is food, then food, then more food!
Well, all I can tell you Monday there wasn’t as much food………………well just what we had in the house, other than Ross going to his meeting we did nothing (except maybe finishing the last 2 episodes of corrie we recorded on Sunday). I did some laundry and put it in the dryer went to get it out of the dryer and it was still wet, damn it, we ran out of propane!!! I called to get our tank filled up but they didn’t get there until 7pm so I guess it was a good thing we stayed home since we didn’t have showers, (I guess Ross just used a lot of deodorant when he went to his meeting).
Today, being Tuesday we are sitting at the office, which we might have 2 leads, peole looking to purchase down here!! Hurray for us! Sue came by to chat, which I am really glad she did cause I found out I needed to bring a white elephant gift to our BSP holiday party on Thursday………………yes I know it never ends! We maybe going to Britannia tonight for their open jam………….I think mostly to see how Mike is doing after his horse incident!
Tomorrow we are throwing a Bad Santa (movie) party (it is all Sue and Harold’s fault…they wanted to share the movie with us, we wanted a turkey……………..so now we have about 12 people coming over to our house tomorrow for turkey dinner and a movie……….how do we get ourselves into messes like this???????? We are having turkey, potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, Sue is bring church corn, gravy, dressing………………… There better be turkey leftovers!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
Wednesday December 22nd, 2010
Wednesday December 22nd, 2010
Wow, what a day……………..it started off great and ended great, the middle sucks though! We got to Philo’s bar in La Cruz and the bar had been transformed to a toy factory! Tables in a U shape overflowing with toys for big and little boys and girls with us standing around the outside filling the bags, and of course an orange in every bag! Ross and I were in the little girl section, but in our zealous we (and the other people) were putting too much toys in each bag……………don’t want to run out of bags, so we took them all apart on the pool table and just had a colouring book crayons and one toy, with a balloon and candies. What fun we had, Philo does this every year and he also has a Christmas turkey dinner on the 25th with Santa!
What we found out at Philo’s was not so fun………………………..Mike and Nick (Mike is from Calgary and plays bass guitar and Mike is from California and plays guitar) were driving home last night from a gig in Punta de mita and they hit a horse with the car! Nick just had a couple of bumps and bruises but Mike had the horse kick him in the face, ouch! He is at the Amerimed hospital in PV, his face was too swollen for surgery last night but when we saw him in the hospital he said that he should be going into surgery later on in the day. What a mess his face is, so swollen and black and blue and red………………………………………. I’m pretty sure he was on some good drugs as he would shake his head and he said he could hear his bones rattle, he had his own little band in his head! I sure hope they do a good job of surgery on his face, he will probably need plastic surgery after this.
After seeing Mike we drove to Sam’s club to get some finger food for our invitation from Geno and Alvia to go to their house in San Pancho for a posada and caroling, the definition of a posada is below:
Typically, each family in a neighborhood will schedule a night for the Posada to be held at their home, starting on the 16th of December and finishing on the 24th. Every home has a nativity scene and the hosts of the Posada act as the innkeepers. The neighborhood children and adults are the pilgrims (peregrinos), who have to request lodging by going house to house singing a traditional song about the pilgrims. All the pilgrims carry small lit candles in their hands, and four people carry small statues of Joseph leading a donkey, on which Mary is riding. The head of the procession will have a candle inside a paper lamp shade. At each house, the resident responds by refusing lodging (also in song), until the weary travelers reach the designated site for the party, where Mary and Joseph are finally recognized and allowed to enter. Once the “innkeepers” let them in, the group of guests come into the home and kneel around the Nativity scene to pray (typically, the Rosary). Latin American countries have continued to celebrate this holiday to this day, with very few changes to the tradition. In some places, the final location may be a church instead of a home. Individuals may actually play the various parts of Mary (María) and Joseph with the expectant mother riding a real donkey (burro), with attendants such as angels and shepherds acquired along the way, or the pilgrims may carry images of the holy personages instead. At the end of the long journey, there will be Christmas carols (villancicos), children will break open colorful papier-mâché objects, called Piñata’s with bats while blindfolded to obtain candy and fruit hidden inside, and there will be a feast. Piñata’s are traditionally made out of clay. It is expected to meet all the invitees in a previous procession.
We got there after 8 as Ross had is meeting to go to before we went. We put the little sandwiches on the table they had outside and Geno put some chairs out for us (we were supposed to bring our own but we forgot, and it looked like everyone else forgot too!) We met new people last night (that is one of the reasons I like it here so much, all the people you meet that you would never have met otherwise) and we got down to some pretty serious carol singing, we even had some carolers come by with their candles and they sang with us for a bit! Unfortunately our singing was cut short due to a power failure and then a brown out; we couldn’t see the words on the page. We stayed for a bit more then drove home, making sure we didn’t hit any horses……….or cows….or trucks!
All in all it was a pretty good day. Everyone say a prayer for Mike’s quick recovery!
Ross Kim and critters in Paradise
Wow, what a day……………..it started off great and ended great, the middle sucks though! We got to Philo’s bar in La Cruz and the bar had been transformed to a toy factory! Tables in a U shape overflowing with toys for big and little boys and girls with us standing around the outside filling the bags, and of course an orange in every bag! Ross and I were in the little girl section, but in our zealous we (and the other people) were putting too much toys in each bag……………don’t want to run out of bags, so we took them all apart on the pool table and just had a colouring book crayons and one toy, with a balloon and candies. What fun we had, Philo does this every year and he also has a Christmas turkey dinner on the 25th with Santa!
What we found out at Philo’s was not so fun………………………..Mike and Nick (Mike is from Calgary and plays bass guitar and Mike is from California and plays guitar) were driving home last night from a gig in Punta de mita and they hit a horse with the car! Nick just had a couple of bumps and bruises but Mike had the horse kick him in the face, ouch! He is at the Amerimed hospital in PV, his face was too swollen for surgery last night but when we saw him in the hospital he said that he should be going into surgery later on in the day. What a mess his face is, so swollen and black and blue and red………………………………………. I’m pretty sure he was on some good drugs as he would shake his head and he said he could hear his bones rattle, he had his own little band in his head! I sure hope they do a good job of surgery on his face, he will probably need plastic surgery after this.
After seeing Mike we drove to Sam’s club to get some finger food for our invitation from Geno and Alvia to go to their house in San Pancho for a posada and caroling, the definition of a posada is below:
Typically, each family in a neighborhood will schedule a night for the Posada to be held at their home, starting on the 16th of December and finishing on the 24th. Every home has a nativity scene and the hosts of the Posada act as the innkeepers. The neighborhood children and adults are the pilgrims (peregrinos), who have to request lodging by going house to house singing a traditional song about the pilgrims. All the pilgrims carry small lit candles in their hands, and four people carry small statues of Joseph leading a donkey, on which Mary is riding. The head of the procession will have a candle inside a paper lamp shade. At each house, the resident responds by refusing lodging (also in song), until the weary travelers reach the designated site for the party, where Mary and Joseph are finally recognized and allowed to enter. Once the “innkeepers” let them in, the group of guests come into the home and kneel around the Nativity scene to pray (typically, the Rosary). Latin American countries have continued to celebrate this holiday to this day, with very few changes to the tradition. In some places, the final location may be a church instead of a home. Individuals may actually play the various parts of Mary (María) and Joseph with the expectant mother riding a real donkey (burro), with attendants such as angels and shepherds acquired along the way, or the pilgrims may carry images of the holy personages instead. At the end of the long journey, there will be Christmas carols (villancicos), children will break open colorful papier-mâché objects, called Piñata’s with bats while blindfolded to obtain candy and fruit hidden inside, and there will be a feast. Piñata’s are traditionally made out of clay. It is expected to meet all the invitees in a previous procession.
We got there after 8 as Ross had is meeting to go to before we went. We put the little sandwiches on the table they had outside and Geno put some chairs out for us (we were supposed to bring our own but we forgot, and it looked like everyone else forgot too!) We met new people last night (that is one of the reasons I like it here so much, all the people you meet that you would never have met otherwise) and we got down to some pretty serious carol singing, we even had some carolers come by with their candles and they sang with us for a bit! Unfortunately our singing was cut short due to a power failure and then a brown out; we couldn’t see the words on the page. We stayed for a bit more then drove home, making sure we didn’t hit any horses……….or cows….or trucks!
All in all it was a pretty good day. Everyone say a prayer for Mike’s quick recovery!
Ross Kim and critters in Paradise
Wednesday December 15th to Tuesday December 21st, 2010
Wednesday December 15th to Tuesday December 21st, 2010
Yahoo! 5 days until Christmas and I have candy canes to suck on hurray!
I was chastised when Ross read the blog; I forgot to finish the saga of the lost wallet!!! How dare I. Here goes: We got home from dinner to find his wallet was not on the floor, yack!!! Now what do we do??? Ross got on the phone with Mike cause he played at Britannia the night before and was hoping they found his wallet, but no such luck so back on the phone to cancel his credit cards and debit cards. We were thinking if he lost his wallet in La Cruz they might have taken the cash then tossed the wallet, so we took a drive and looked everywhere for it………….nowhere to be seen! Being a little (I exaggerate) upset he blasted onto the highway to check the office and guess who was behind him……..yup……..a transito. Good thing (I guess) the guy spoke English and we tried to explain to him that Ross was driving without his license because his wallet was stolen and was driving fast cause he was upset. After him telling us we would need to park the car if he took our license plate away (we have driven for days without one and no one noticed) and would have to walk home until we paid the fine, but in the end we paid him a bribe of 320 pesos to let us go………………I drove then, we went to the office and his wallet wasn’t there so back home we went. You will never guess what happened then…………………………………………………………we just got out of our car and our next door neighbor came over with Ross’s wallet letting us know it was found in PV and brought to him as we were not home. Nothing in the wallet was taken, not even the money, we love it here! There that is the saga of the missing wallet. As a side note we phoned the credit card companies back to see if they would un-cancel them but alas no, so we are waiting for new ones to be send and Pam will FedEx them to us when she gets them.
So back to the present, I can’t remember if we finally got our new old trailer today or Friday so I will shoot in the dark and say today. Ross put our jack in the truck to take the flat tire off the trailer and we drove off to John and Christies house. Mackenzie opened the gate and we got the trailer out, but Ross had a hard time getting the jack to lift up the trailer as the jack was not co-operating!!! Now I have to let you know about a comment Mackenzie said when she was watching Ross with the jack, she asked, “is everything you have pink???” The jack has been outside since we got here and the red faded to pink………..how cute! We got the tire off and took it to the tire shop; I think for 150 pesos we got a new valve stem and a patch. We got the tire back on the trailer and now it is sitting in our back yard………..still empty, yack, I want to move my room and I can’t until all Ross’s stuff is out, patience is what I need. Sue called asking if we want to go to Ernesto’s for supper, of course we said yes and we had a great dinner, Ross had a hamburger and I had the BLT!
Thursday was a very busy day for both of us; it was my sorority La Penita market trip and Ross had a gig that night. I got up early (7:30am) and drove to the Oxxo at the Decameron gate to pick up Sue at 8:40 and I picked up another sister, Bonnie, at the Oxxo by Mega at 8:45, we then drove to the last Oxxo I Bucerias to meet up with the rest of the sisters that were driving. We ended up going in Sandy’s van as she was all by herself and can’t ride in a car without driving, car sick, yuck! We got to La Penita (about a 40 minute drive north of Bucerias) shortly after 10 and ended up having a big of breakfast before starting to shop. I ordered coffee with toast and jam, now they don‘t butter toast here and they ended up having to go to a store to pick up some jam for me; I hope they use it up with some other gringo breakfast! After breakfast we walked up and down the aisles looking at all the stuff they were selling, Christmas stuff, makeup, clothing, plastic wares, cd’s, some DVD’s …………etc. We then went into the square and here the artisans were, handmade jewelry, bowls, purses (I bought one), there were also plants, I bought a cactus, a poinsettia and a little tree with Christmas decorations on it. We left the market at about 12:30 and drove back to Guayabitos to the Vista Guayabitos restaurant, way up high on a hill, great view, and great food. I had a French onion soup (it was chilly out) and 2 glasses of wine, it’s funny when I got my soup I asked where the bread and cheese was, he said on the bottom of course, silly me.
I got home around 4, once Cecilla was done cleaning we jumped into the truck with the dogs and drove to the beach by John and Christie’s house. He was doing a Feliz Navidog Christmas news letter, on the beach was a small decorated Christmas tree, we had Jake on one side and Gracie on the other with John clicking away on his camera, he must have got at least 50 shots, one should be ok. We weren’t paying any attention to Jake……………..he pee’d on the tree…..oops!
Ross left around 6:30 to drive to San Pancho for a gig, I stayed home for another hour and left to sell t-shirts for the sorority on the street by the beach while the art walk was going on, what a blast, we sold 4 t-shirts and said hi to many friends walking by. I got home around 9:30 or so, I think Ross got in around one, we were both very tired!
I went with Ross to his meeting in Paradise Village on Friday as the lady that brought gauze down for us was to meet me at Starbucks. Lisa was there, we chatted the hour away, the gauze lady never did show up?!?!?
And of course Saturday we were up bright and early for the animal adoption/food drive at Mega. Today was a little different; the Segway guy was there from Vallarta and for a toy for the kids in La Cruz, we got to ride on one of them! What fun, we had to wear a helmet (I guess that was good for me!!!) and they are so easy to maneuver, I want one for Christmas!
I went out to dinner with the dinner club to Flaky’s at 7; Ross went to play at Britannia, (that sounds like he is a little boy going out to play with his friends) and Roxana and I drove over there after dinner, unfortunately we caught their last song, the guitar player had to go to PV for another gig. We sat for a bit chatting to friends and we finished our drinks before we got up to go, a nice evening was had by all!
On Sunday Derek, my son-in-law turned 41. Happy Birthday to Derek!
I can’t remember if I told you this or not but last week I got a craving for a candy cane. I started shopping around for them, thinking “no problem”, well it sure was………….I couldn’t find them anywhere……………until Dick told me he found them at Sam’s Club in Vallarta, so guess where we were yesterday??? Yup, we drove to Sam’s club and I got a bucket full of little baby ones, hurray, I actually snitched one from the bucket I was buying……………to die for! Let me repeat this……………….TO DIE FOR! We drove to KFC (Ross had a craving) then stopped in at Costco for another tub of Pub Mix, if you can find this at home grab one, they are very good, it is made up of pretzels and stuff. Ross left to his meeting at 5:30 and I finished watching my Christmas shows I had recorded.
I am now sitting in the office, I had an 11:30 appointment to get my nails done so I have been up and about for a long time now………………..Siesta time??? We don’t have any plans for tonight, at least we can’t remember any so I guess we will have a nice night in.
I hope this finds everyone well and hope you all have all your Christmas shopping done so you can sit back and drink some eggnog!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
Yahoo! 5 days until Christmas and I have candy canes to suck on hurray!
I was chastised when Ross read the blog; I forgot to finish the saga of the lost wallet!!! How dare I. Here goes: We got home from dinner to find his wallet was not on the floor, yack!!! Now what do we do??? Ross got on the phone with Mike cause he played at Britannia the night before and was hoping they found his wallet, but no such luck so back on the phone to cancel his credit cards and debit cards. We were thinking if he lost his wallet in La Cruz they might have taken the cash then tossed the wallet, so we took a drive and looked everywhere for it………….nowhere to be seen! Being a little (I exaggerate) upset he blasted onto the highway to check the office and guess who was behind him……..yup……..a transito. Good thing (I guess) the guy spoke English and we tried to explain to him that Ross was driving without his license because his wallet was stolen and was driving fast cause he was upset. After him telling us we would need to park the car if he took our license plate away (we have driven for days without one and no one noticed) and would have to walk home until we paid the fine, but in the end we paid him a bribe of 320 pesos to let us go………………I drove then, we went to the office and his wallet wasn’t there so back home we went. You will never guess what happened then…………………………………………………………we just got out of our car and our next door neighbor came over with Ross’s wallet letting us know it was found in PV and brought to him as we were not home. Nothing in the wallet was taken, not even the money, we love it here! There that is the saga of the missing wallet. As a side note we phoned the credit card companies back to see if they would un-cancel them but alas no, so we are waiting for new ones to be send and Pam will FedEx them to us when she gets them.
So back to the present, I can’t remember if we finally got our new old trailer today or Friday so I will shoot in the dark and say today. Ross put our jack in the truck to take the flat tire off the trailer and we drove off to John and Christies house. Mackenzie opened the gate and we got the trailer out, but Ross had a hard time getting the jack to lift up the trailer as the jack was not co-operating!!! Now I have to let you know about a comment Mackenzie said when she was watching Ross with the jack, she asked, “is everything you have pink???” The jack has been outside since we got here and the red faded to pink………..how cute! We got the tire off and took it to the tire shop; I think for 150 pesos we got a new valve stem and a patch. We got the tire back on the trailer and now it is sitting in our back yard………..still empty, yack, I want to move my room and I can’t until all Ross’s stuff is out, patience is what I need. Sue called asking if we want to go to Ernesto’s for supper, of course we said yes and we had a great dinner, Ross had a hamburger and I had the BLT!
Thursday was a very busy day for both of us; it was my sorority La Penita market trip and Ross had a gig that night. I got up early (7:30am) and drove to the Oxxo at the Decameron gate to pick up Sue at 8:40 and I picked up another sister, Bonnie, at the Oxxo by Mega at 8:45, we then drove to the last Oxxo I Bucerias to meet up with the rest of the sisters that were driving. We ended up going in Sandy’s van as she was all by herself and can’t ride in a car without driving, car sick, yuck! We got to La Penita (about a 40 minute drive north of Bucerias) shortly after 10 and ended up having a big of breakfast before starting to shop. I ordered coffee with toast and jam, now they don‘t butter toast here and they ended up having to go to a store to pick up some jam for me; I hope they use it up with some other gringo breakfast! After breakfast we walked up and down the aisles looking at all the stuff they were selling, Christmas stuff, makeup, clothing, plastic wares, cd’s, some DVD’s …………etc. We then went into the square and here the artisans were, handmade jewelry, bowls, purses (I bought one), there were also plants, I bought a cactus, a poinsettia and a little tree with Christmas decorations on it. We left the market at about 12:30 and drove back to Guayabitos to the Vista Guayabitos restaurant, way up high on a hill, great view, and great food. I had a French onion soup (it was chilly out) and 2 glasses of wine, it’s funny when I got my soup I asked where the bread and cheese was, he said on the bottom of course, silly me.
I got home around 4, once Cecilla was done cleaning we jumped into the truck with the dogs and drove to the beach by John and Christie’s house. He was doing a Feliz Navidog Christmas news letter, on the beach was a small decorated Christmas tree, we had Jake on one side and Gracie on the other with John clicking away on his camera, he must have got at least 50 shots, one should be ok. We weren’t paying any attention to Jake……………..he pee’d on the tree…..oops!
Ross left around 6:30 to drive to San Pancho for a gig, I stayed home for another hour and left to sell t-shirts for the sorority on the street by the beach while the art walk was going on, what a blast, we sold 4 t-shirts and said hi to many friends walking by. I got home around 9:30 or so, I think Ross got in around one, we were both very tired!
I went with Ross to his meeting in Paradise Village on Friday as the lady that brought gauze down for us was to meet me at Starbucks. Lisa was there, we chatted the hour away, the gauze lady never did show up?!?!?
And of course Saturday we were up bright and early for the animal adoption/food drive at Mega. Today was a little different; the Segway guy was there from Vallarta and for a toy for the kids in La Cruz, we got to ride on one of them! What fun, we had to wear a helmet (I guess that was good for me!!!) and they are so easy to maneuver, I want one for Christmas!
I went out to dinner with the dinner club to Flaky’s at 7; Ross went to play at Britannia, (that sounds like he is a little boy going out to play with his friends) and Roxana and I drove over there after dinner, unfortunately we caught their last song, the guitar player had to go to PV for another gig. We sat for a bit chatting to friends and we finished our drinks before we got up to go, a nice evening was had by all!
On Sunday Derek, my son-in-law turned 41. Happy Birthday to Derek!
I can’t remember if I told you this or not but last week I got a craving for a candy cane. I started shopping around for them, thinking “no problem”, well it sure was………….I couldn’t find them anywhere……………until Dick told me he found them at Sam’s Club in Vallarta, so guess where we were yesterday??? Yup, we drove to Sam’s club and I got a bucket full of little baby ones, hurray, I actually snitched one from the bucket I was buying……………to die for! Let me repeat this……………….TO DIE FOR! We drove to KFC (Ross had a craving) then stopped in at Costco for another tub of Pub Mix, if you can find this at home grab one, they are very good, it is made up of pretzels and stuff. Ross left to his meeting at 5:30 and I finished watching my Christmas shows I had recorded.
I am now sitting in the office, I had an 11:30 appointment to get my nails done so I have been up and about for a long time now………………..Siesta time??? We don’t have any plans for tonight, at least we can’t remember any so I guess we will have a nice night in.
I hope this finds everyone well and hope you all have all your Christmas shopping done so you can sit back and drink some eggnog!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
Tuesday December 7th to Tuesday December 14th, 2010
Tuesday December 7th to Tuesday December 14th, 2010
Today is day one working the office again!!! Since we have our working FM3’s we are now legal to sit in the office and play on our computers for 6 hours, oh well, we are sure to get some clients someday???!!! A couple of weeks ago our good friend Renee asked if we could pick her up from the airport today (we weren’t working the office when I said yes), she was coming back from Chicago to stay until March, I think, she has renters coming in at that time. I picked her up from the airport (she ordered a wheelchair when she got her tickets……that is the only way to go!) and off to Bucerias, our little piece of paradise! Once back in her condo she looked around for her kitty litter box and couldn’t seem to locate it (she brought her cat down), so off I truck back to the house to lend her our extra one (the one we bought for Babygirl in the rv) and by the time I brought it back to her house she found hers, her maid put it outside on the balcony, not the top of it, that we found, but just the bottom of it along with his dishes! Maids tend to do that though, we seem to not put stuff in the places where they think it should go, it takes me a while to find things around our house. Once we got the cat in order, I drove her over to Mega to pick up a few groceries, we got everything put away and she offered me a drink, vodka, scotch or warm beer, since I don’t like scotch or warm beer I had vodka, wow was it strong, she said it was strong to her and she likes her drinks strong, we had a pleasant time chatting, and I left around 6ish? Ross took off to Britannia for their jam session, I stayed home to watch Christmas movies.
Wednesday………………………..well we had some excitement today!!! We went into PV today to get Ross’s new watchband fixed and to have supper at Sirloin Stockade (which by the way was very, very, very good, as was the company…Sue, Harold, Dick and of course Mary Carmen) when we realized Ross didn‘t have his wallet with him!!! I paid the 40 pesos to fix the watch band and we figured his wallet fell out on the bedroom floor last night when he threw his shorts onto the floor. We drove to The Galleria Mall and had a great dinner then got to drive over the fixed bridge back to Bucerias, wow no waiting, it was great!
Thursday was cooking day for our Christmas boutique sale we were having on Saturday for Beta Sigma Phi. I had planned on baking sugar cookies but forgot the cream of tartar I brought down with me had developed bugs, (I had even put it in a Ziploc bag) so off to Mega to get some more, now, I know that cream is creama so I didn’t think I would have too much trouble buying some, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Mexico is very strange when it comes to where they put things in grocery stores, the baking stuff will be placed over 2 or 3 aisles, maybe 4 or 5! You will find the flour with the cake mixes (only vanilla or chocolate) and maybe the baking powder, but everything else is everywhere! So off to Walmart I go, still no cream of tartar, what is up with this, so after going down every aisle at least 4 times I bought some coconut (yeah I found some), oatmeal, baking chocolate, and powdered chocolate (down here if you find something you think you might need……..buy it, you may never see it again) and decided to make oatmeal cookies and chocolate dainties for the Christmas Boutique. After I got home I made my cookies and decided to put on facebook if anyone has cream of tartar. I got a reply from John asking me to call his daughter Mackenzie as she loves to bake and she probably would have some. So I did, she had some so we took off to pick up our new old trailer and to get my cream of tartar, well, I got my cream of tartar (it comes in a jar like spices……..if I had known that I would have looked at the spices) but the trailer had a flat tire that needed to be fixed and between John and Ross neither one of them had a jack! They both aren’t handy, John is a computer geek and Ross………..well you know Ross! I made my sugar cookies Thursday night before we trotted off to Philo’s to see our friends (as Ross is not working at Nelly’s anymore we can come to Philo’s more often).
Friday morning I got up fairly early to bake my sugar cookies so they would be ready to be taken over to Linda’s house. You have heard the horror stories of my wonderful oven but I finally got it up to 350 steady and holding (I marked the dial) so my cookies turned out wonderful! Hurray! Yesterday I used the oven (I finally got it at about 300 and holding) and my toaster oven! That was fun……. I got over to Linda’s at 3 and we started getting things ready for tomorrow. We did such a wonderful thing, Linda went and took a picture of each of the children from the special needs school and made 3 copies of each of their pictures, we then traced and cut out enough stars made out of stiff paper to paste all the pictures on them. We added a hanger to each and asked people to donate to the school on behalf of the children, when they found the child they wanted, they hung up one star on the tree with the child’s picture, the benefactor took a star and the child got a star, what a success! The tree was pretty full at the end of the bazaar! I got home around 6ish, and after Ross got home from his meeting we drove to Flaky’s, the new fish and chip place that just opened up across the street from the office on Lazaro Cardenas. Wow it was great, his and Britannia’s are the best in the bay I think. We of course met up with a couple we know and a guy Ross knows from the pointy hat club, it is a very small town!
Saturday’s Christmas boutique sale was a great success! I went at 11am (my shift started at 11:30) to buy some stuff……………I got a water cooler jug cover (it is green with candy canes on it), a wine carrier (so if I fall next time I won’t be holding the bottle of wine, my hand still really hurts) a spider for the tree (long story) and a couple of other things, oh yeah, I got a kerchief thingy that when you put it in ice water some crystals puff up holding in the water so you can put it on the back of your neck in the summer and it will stay cool. The lady selling them had one, it was neat! I got to sit with Sue collecting the money, it’s funny, no matter what charity I work with, I end up always with the money!!! We had a grand time chatting between the two of us and with the hundreds (we maybe not hundreds, but it sure seemed like it) of people that came. I also bought some banana bread too, mine never seems to be cooked in the middle???
Ross left for La Penita to play at a private party, so of course I got my jammies on and watched Christmas movies, what a way to spend a Saturday night!!!
Here it is Tuesday again, we are sitting in the office, not much foot traffic today, a friend of Ross’s stopped by to chat for a bit, and Renee stopped by to say hi. I went over to Gina’s shop across the street and down a bit to see if she could shorten my nails for me, (my next appt isn’t until next Tuesday and I can’t wait that long) I have been typing like mad for a couple of hours now and my nails were just too long, too many typing errors. I got into see her an hour later and now not so many typing errors (except of course trying to type the work error!!!).
It is another beautiful day in paradise; our renters are starting to tear out the carpet upstairs in our house in Edmonton, unfortunately they found some mold, they might have to replace some drywall? Good thing they are handy! We had a humidifier in that corner of our dining room for a couple of years; we hope that is where the water came from and not from the bathroom (it is on the other side of the wall). She sent a picture of the mold and will keep up updated! I had picked out some very nice blonde hardwood for the flooring from Home Depot but it was on sale and was all gone by the time she went to get it. I ended up picking out the dark stuff as it was only $5 more a box, I am just concerned with keeping it clean, and dark shows every piece of dust on it. I am looking forward to seeing the pictures of it when it is done.
Well, that is about it for this week, Ross is playing in San Poncho Thursday and I am going on a road trip with the sisters of Beta Sigma Phi which should be a blast! Will let you know how it turns out!
Ross Kim and critters in Paradise!
Today is day one working the office again!!! Since we have our working FM3’s we are now legal to sit in the office and play on our computers for 6 hours, oh well, we are sure to get some clients someday???!!! A couple of weeks ago our good friend Renee asked if we could pick her up from the airport today (we weren’t working the office when I said yes), she was coming back from Chicago to stay until March, I think, she has renters coming in at that time. I picked her up from the airport (she ordered a wheelchair when she got her tickets……that is the only way to go!) and off to Bucerias, our little piece of paradise! Once back in her condo she looked around for her kitty litter box and couldn’t seem to locate it (she brought her cat down), so off I truck back to the house to lend her our extra one (the one we bought for Babygirl in the rv) and by the time I brought it back to her house she found hers, her maid put it outside on the balcony, not the top of it, that we found, but just the bottom of it along with his dishes! Maids tend to do that though, we seem to not put stuff in the places where they think it should go, it takes me a while to find things around our house. Once we got the cat in order, I drove her over to Mega to pick up a few groceries, we got everything put away and she offered me a drink, vodka, scotch or warm beer, since I don’t like scotch or warm beer I had vodka, wow was it strong, she said it was strong to her and she likes her drinks strong, we had a pleasant time chatting, and I left around 6ish? Ross took off to Britannia for their jam session, I stayed home to watch Christmas movies.
Wednesday………………………..well we had some excitement today!!! We went into PV today to get Ross’s new watchband fixed and to have supper at Sirloin Stockade (which by the way was very, very, very good, as was the company…Sue, Harold, Dick and of course Mary Carmen) when we realized Ross didn‘t have his wallet with him!!! I paid the 40 pesos to fix the watch band and we figured his wallet fell out on the bedroom floor last night when he threw his shorts onto the floor. We drove to The Galleria Mall and had a great dinner then got to drive over the fixed bridge back to Bucerias, wow no waiting, it was great!
Thursday was cooking day for our Christmas boutique sale we were having on Saturday for Beta Sigma Phi. I had planned on baking sugar cookies but forgot the cream of tartar I brought down with me had developed bugs, (I had even put it in a Ziploc bag) so off to Mega to get some more, now, I know that cream is creama so I didn’t think I would have too much trouble buying some, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Mexico is very strange when it comes to where they put things in grocery stores, the baking stuff will be placed over 2 or 3 aisles, maybe 4 or 5! You will find the flour with the cake mixes (only vanilla or chocolate) and maybe the baking powder, but everything else is everywhere! So off to Walmart I go, still no cream of tartar, what is up with this, so after going down every aisle at least 4 times I bought some coconut (yeah I found some), oatmeal, baking chocolate, and powdered chocolate (down here if you find something you think you might need……..buy it, you may never see it again) and decided to make oatmeal cookies and chocolate dainties for the Christmas Boutique. After I got home I made my cookies and decided to put on facebook if anyone has cream of tartar. I got a reply from John asking me to call his daughter Mackenzie as she loves to bake and she probably would have some. So I did, she had some so we took off to pick up our new old trailer and to get my cream of tartar, well, I got my cream of tartar (it comes in a jar like spices……..if I had known that I would have looked at the spices) but the trailer had a flat tire that needed to be fixed and between John and Ross neither one of them had a jack! They both aren’t handy, John is a computer geek and Ross………..well you know Ross! I made my sugar cookies Thursday night before we trotted off to Philo’s to see our friends (as Ross is not working at Nelly’s anymore we can come to Philo’s more often).
Friday morning I got up fairly early to bake my sugar cookies so they would be ready to be taken over to Linda’s house. You have heard the horror stories of my wonderful oven but I finally got it up to 350 steady and holding (I marked the dial) so my cookies turned out wonderful! Hurray! Yesterday I used the oven (I finally got it at about 300 and holding) and my toaster oven! That was fun……. I got over to Linda’s at 3 and we started getting things ready for tomorrow. We did such a wonderful thing, Linda went and took a picture of each of the children from the special needs school and made 3 copies of each of their pictures, we then traced and cut out enough stars made out of stiff paper to paste all the pictures on them. We added a hanger to each and asked people to donate to the school on behalf of the children, when they found the child they wanted, they hung up one star on the tree with the child’s picture, the benefactor took a star and the child got a star, what a success! The tree was pretty full at the end of the bazaar! I got home around 6ish, and after Ross got home from his meeting we drove to Flaky’s, the new fish and chip place that just opened up across the street from the office on Lazaro Cardenas. Wow it was great, his and Britannia’s are the best in the bay I think. We of course met up with a couple we know and a guy Ross knows from the pointy hat club, it is a very small town!
Saturday’s Christmas boutique sale was a great success! I went at 11am (my shift started at 11:30) to buy some stuff……………I got a water cooler jug cover (it is green with candy canes on it), a wine carrier (so if I fall next time I won’t be holding the bottle of wine, my hand still really hurts) a spider for the tree (long story) and a couple of other things, oh yeah, I got a kerchief thingy that when you put it in ice water some crystals puff up holding in the water so you can put it on the back of your neck in the summer and it will stay cool. The lady selling them had one, it was neat! I got to sit with Sue collecting the money, it’s funny, no matter what charity I work with, I end up always with the money!!! We had a grand time chatting between the two of us and with the hundreds (we maybe not hundreds, but it sure seemed like it) of people that came. I also bought some banana bread too, mine never seems to be cooked in the middle???
Ross left for La Penita to play at a private party, so of course I got my jammies on and watched Christmas movies, what a way to spend a Saturday night!!!
Here it is Tuesday again, we are sitting in the office, not much foot traffic today, a friend of Ross’s stopped by to chat for a bit, and Renee stopped by to say hi. I went over to Gina’s shop across the street and down a bit to see if she could shorten my nails for me, (my next appt isn’t until next Tuesday and I can’t wait that long) I have been typing like mad for a couple of hours now and my nails were just too long, too many typing errors. I got into see her an hour later and now not so many typing errors (except of course trying to type the work error!!!).
It is another beautiful day in paradise; our renters are starting to tear out the carpet upstairs in our house in Edmonton, unfortunately they found some mold, they might have to replace some drywall? Good thing they are handy! We had a humidifier in that corner of our dining room for a couple of years; we hope that is where the water came from and not from the bathroom (it is on the other side of the wall). She sent a picture of the mold and will keep up updated! I had picked out some very nice blonde hardwood for the flooring from Home Depot but it was on sale and was all gone by the time she went to get it. I ended up picking out the dark stuff as it was only $5 more a box, I am just concerned with keeping it clean, and dark shows every piece of dust on it. I am looking forward to seeing the pictures of it when it is done.
Well, that is about it for this week, Ross is playing in San Poncho Thursday and I am going on a road trip with the sisters of Beta Sigma Phi which should be a blast! Will let you know how it turns out!
Ross Kim and critters in Paradise!
Monday November 29th to Monday December 6th, 2010
Monday November 29th to Monday December 6th, 2010
We were invited over to Geno and Alvia’s for dinner Tuesday night, wow, we had a salad then chicken cacciatore, to die for!!! They live in San Poncho right on the mail street about 3 blocks from the ocean, the front of the house is their real estate business and paper store and the back is their living space. The bedroom is inside but the kitchen, dining room and living room are outside under a palapa! They have a very large back yard that so far is empty; I think I heard Geno say they will put in a dipping pool sometime in the future!
We first went down to the beach to watch the marvelous sunset; I got my feet wet, cooooold ocean! We met up with Geno and a friend at the beach bar then went back to Geno’s. Ralph was supposed to come too but he was too sick, Ross took off to Lo de Marcos and dropped off some medicine we brought for him, then got back just as supper was ready. All in all…………….a great day!
Just before we went to San Poncho I finally got my nails done, and most importantly got the one fixed that broke in the fall. I also made an appointment to finally get my hair cut at Gina’s salon in Vallarta on Wednesday! I got at least 3” cut off and I feel so much better, unfortunately it is a little too short for all my hair to be caught in an elastic band for the convertible, will have to wear a hat until it grows a bit.
Saturday was our amigos meeting and then…………………..after that…………………….I got my stitches out, help!! Everybody says, it doesn’t hurt, everything will be fine, but if the wound hurts still to touch, why should taking the stitches out NOT hurt??? I’ll tell you why, it was infected!!! All 4 of the stitches coming out felt like she was cutting my skin……………ouch!!! I now have (I think) all the infection out now it just needs to heal, I have it covered in the daytime (for dust and stuff) and at night I have it uncovered so the air can get at it. I think Shadow (our very large Cdn black cat) feels sorry for me because he slept on my head all last night that normally doesn’t happen, I normally have Baby Girl there!
At 4 we went to the chili cook-off at Paradise Village in Nuevo Vallarta, Ronnie and Tony, our friends here in Bucerias are involved with this chili cook-off also, so it was good to see them again. We also saw Tom (bass player) and Harold and Sue came out to join in. As we were supposed to go to dinner later, I didn’t have much chili, but I found out later that Ross didn’t want to go to dinner and was expecting to have chili for dinner………………..boy did we get our wires crossed!!!
We finally picked up our new working FM3’s on Friday before we went in to PV, we are now legal to work here, but I noticed the renewal date is our old date in July. Now we love the July renewal because no one is here and the immigration office isn‘t as busy, but I can’t understand why we paid all that money for only 6 months!!! What I want to know how much it is going to cost at renewal!!! When we went into PV we stopped off at Autozone to pick up a trailer hitch extension so that we can tow our new trailer here so Ross can put his stuff in it so………………………….I and paint the room and then move my stuff into the room so I can use the small room for company!
Last Monday we had a real estate meeting and as we now are legal to sell we now can work the office……………we got the afternoon shift on Tuesdays!!! But already I can’t make it for the whole time tomorrow as Renee is coming back so I am going to pick her up from the airport at 2:45; I will hook up with Ross at the office after I drop her off at her house.
Last Wednesday Juan-Ted and the AMAZING Rhythm Roosters started a new gig in Guayabitos on the beach in a bar called Mateja's. They are playing every other Wednesday and if the first gig is any indication on how the other ones will be…………………..it will be great. They start at 3pm Nayarit time and at 9pm (our time) Ross called me and said they were still playing!!! They played, I think, 2 extra sets and they got at least one private party out of that, hurray!!! Caching!!! Money, Money, Moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Unfortunately their Nelly’s gig has come to a close; she has decided that the community is too small for one band to play twice a week, even if they are only playing one gig every other week! That is sad because we really love Natalie!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
ps…..you know that we have a couple of feral cats that come into our yard at night to eat………well one of the cats will actually let me pet her now and she has been protecting our house from another feral cat!!!
We were invited over to Geno and Alvia’s for dinner Tuesday night, wow, we had a salad then chicken cacciatore, to die for!!! They live in San Poncho right on the mail street about 3 blocks from the ocean, the front of the house is their real estate business and paper store and the back is their living space. The bedroom is inside but the kitchen, dining room and living room are outside under a palapa! They have a very large back yard that so far is empty; I think I heard Geno say they will put in a dipping pool sometime in the future!
We first went down to the beach to watch the marvelous sunset; I got my feet wet, cooooold ocean! We met up with Geno and a friend at the beach bar then went back to Geno’s. Ralph was supposed to come too but he was too sick, Ross took off to Lo de Marcos and dropped off some medicine we brought for him, then got back just as supper was ready. All in all…………….a great day!
Just before we went to San Poncho I finally got my nails done, and most importantly got the one fixed that broke in the fall. I also made an appointment to finally get my hair cut at Gina’s salon in Vallarta on Wednesday! I got at least 3” cut off and I feel so much better, unfortunately it is a little too short for all my hair to be caught in an elastic band for the convertible, will have to wear a hat until it grows a bit.
Saturday was our amigos meeting and then…………………..after that…………………….I got my stitches out, help!! Everybody says, it doesn’t hurt, everything will be fine, but if the wound hurts still to touch, why should taking the stitches out NOT hurt??? I’ll tell you why, it was infected!!! All 4 of the stitches coming out felt like she was cutting my skin……………ouch!!! I now have (I think) all the infection out now it just needs to heal, I have it covered in the daytime (for dust and stuff) and at night I have it uncovered so the air can get at it. I think Shadow (our very large Cdn black cat) feels sorry for me because he slept on my head all last night that normally doesn’t happen, I normally have Baby Girl there!
At 4 we went to the chili cook-off at Paradise Village in Nuevo Vallarta, Ronnie and Tony, our friends here in Bucerias are involved with this chili cook-off also, so it was good to see them again. We also saw Tom (bass player) and Harold and Sue came out to join in. As we were supposed to go to dinner later, I didn’t have much chili, but I found out later that Ross didn’t want to go to dinner and was expecting to have chili for dinner………………..boy did we get our wires crossed!!!
We finally picked up our new working FM3’s on Friday before we went in to PV, we are now legal to work here, but I noticed the renewal date is our old date in July. Now we love the July renewal because no one is here and the immigration office isn‘t as busy, but I can’t understand why we paid all that money for only 6 months!!! What I want to know how much it is going to cost at renewal!!! When we went into PV we stopped off at Autozone to pick up a trailer hitch extension so that we can tow our new trailer here so Ross can put his stuff in it so………………………….I and paint the room and then move my stuff into the room so I can use the small room for company!
Last Monday we had a real estate meeting and as we now are legal to sell we now can work the office……………we got the afternoon shift on Tuesdays!!! But already I can’t make it for the whole time tomorrow as Renee is coming back so I am going to pick her up from the airport at 2:45; I will hook up with Ross at the office after I drop her off at her house.
Last Wednesday Juan-Ted and the AMAZING Rhythm Roosters started a new gig in Guayabitos on the beach in a bar called Mateja's. They are playing every other Wednesday and if the first gig is any indication on how the other ones will be…………………..it will be great. They start at 3pm Nayarit time and at 9pm (our time) Ross called me and said they were still playing!!! They played, I think, 2 extra sets and they got at least one private party out of that, hurray!!! Caching!!! Money, Money, Moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Unfortunately their Nelly’s gig has come to a close; she has decided that the community is too small for one band to play twice a week, even if they are only playing one gig every other week! That is sad because we really love Natalie!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
ps…..you know that we have a couple of feral cats that come into our yard at night to eat………well one of the cats will actually let me pet her now and she has been protecting our house from another feral cat!!!
Monday November 29th, 2010
Monday November 29th, 2010
We had a fabulous Grey Cup party yesterday! It started out by inviting Lisa and Wayne over for the Grey Cup and of course John and Christie (all us Canadians, we did it last year too) and that blossomed up to 12 of us total. They started coming (with food) at 4pm and I think the last one was Sam (a new friend we made, he is a bass player), wow, Ross made hot wings (and I made him make teriyaki ones too, I wasn’t the only one that liked them either), Lisa and Wayne brought 3 plates of cheese and meats, Christie and John brought over veggies and dip, we got a chocolate cake and potato chips, Ronnie and Tony brought egg salad wraps……….it was all good. Ross got one of our TV’s and star choice receiver outside to watch the game outside and everyone who didn’t want to watch it stayed inside and I had HGTV on, it worked out quite well. We were disappointed that Saskatchewan didn’t win, but oh well, there is always next year!
We picked up Sue and Harold last Monday from the airport and ended up going to Ernesto’s for dinner, Ross had the pork chops and I had the chef’s salad, what a meal, the salad had lettuce, egg, bacon, ham, fruit (apples and oranges) and a whole bunch of other stuff, actually brought leftovers home (after Ross kept sneaking off my plate) and had them the next day, yum!
For Thanksgiving we met Dick (Mary Carmen had tummy problems) at Ernesto’s, what a great turkey dinner, we just noticed at the end of the meal he forgot to put sweet potato’s on our plate, (we were thinking they would have to add the sweet potatoes to their menu, just to finish them off). We had pumpkin flan for dessert, exactly the same as pumpkin pie without the pie crust! We had to eat at 3 cause we were off to Nelly’s that night for her turkey dinner and to listen to the band. I never ate but the band was as good as they have ever been, Alvia came too (Geno’s wife, she doesn’t come often). We also met up with Sam (the bass player) for the first time, he came with a lady (she was driving) and they only stayed for not even one set she wanted to go home, he was so upset with her for leaving early (he was to play a few songs) that he forgot to pay their bill, oops!
Friday afternoon we had a sorority meeting to welcome all the new members (that would be me) at Sandy’s house, she owns a beautiful bed and breakfast just blocks off the beach, we actually got a tour, wow! I am now a proud member of the sorority and have the black badge to prove it; they use this badge to collect the pins you get when you continue on your path, there are different levels you can get to if you want!
Now at last it is Friday night and it is the start of our very first Annual Bucerias Chili Cookoff! What a blast, I got there just after 4pm and started off by relieving Karen dishing out our chili while she had a smoke. 5 of us made a gallon each of chili (me too) and we put it all together for our allotted 5 gallons per table. We had a pot of beans to add to the chili if people wanted and we also had cheese, and stuff to put on top. We ran out of chili before the end, I think cause we put too much chili in the cups! I walked around a bit, said hi to Ralph and Geno while they were setting up and to almost everyone else, I love living in a small town, you see so many of your friends while doing these events! I meandered over to the ticket selling table where I had the late shift, we sold the drink and chili tickets, wow, we were selling them right to the end, what a great event, it was very successful!!!
That it about it for now…………………….the past couple of weeks have been so busy with family, meetings and stuff, we are trying to have a bit of down time. Oh forgot to mention that we are now the proud owners of a treadmill! On the yahoo group someone was advertising a free treadmill, it works great but the on/off switch doesn’t work so as soon as you plug it in it starts. I’m going to have to make sure it is going very slow when I’m done, hopefully I will lose some of this weight I have been putting on!!!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise!
We had a fabulous Grey Cup party yesterday! It started out by inviting Lisa and Wayne over for the Grey Cup and of course John and Christie (all us Canadians, we did it last year too) and that blossomed up to 12 of us total. They started coming (with food) at 4pm and I think the last one was Sam (a new friend we made, he is a bass player), wow, Ross made hot wings (and I made him make teriyaki ones too, I wasn’t the only one that liked them either), Lisa and Wayne brought 3 plates of cheese and meats, Christie and John brought over veggies and dip, we got a chocolate cake and potato chips, Ronnie and Tony brought egg salad wraps……….it was all good. Ross got one of our TV’s and star choice receiver outside to watch the game outside and everyone who didn’t want to watch it stayed inside and I had HGTV on, it worked out quite well. We were disappointed that Saskatchewan didn’t win, but oh well, there is always next year!
We picked up Sue and Harold last Monday from the airport and ended up going to Ernesto’s for dinner, Ross had the pork chops and I had the chef’s salad, what a meal, the salad had lettuce, egg, bacon, ham, fruit (apples and oranges) and a whole bunch of other stuff, actually brought leftovers home (after Ross kept sneaking off my plate) and had them the next day, yum!
For Thanksgiving we met Dick (Mary Carmen had tummy problems) at Ernesto’s, what a great turkey dinner, we just noticed at the end of the meal he forgot to put sweet potato’s on our plate, (we were thinking they would have to add the sweet potatoes to their menu, just to finish them off). We had pumpkin flan for dessert, exactly the same as pumpkin pie without the pie crust! We had to eat at 3 cause we were off to Nelly’s that night for her turkey dinner and to listen to the band. I never ate but the band was as good as they have ever been, Alvia came too (Geno’s wife, she doesn’t come often). We also met up with Sam (the bass player) for the first time, he came with a lady (she was driving) and they only stayed for not even one set she wanted to go home, he was so upset with her for leaving early (he was to play a few songs) that he forgot to pay their bill, oops!
Friday afternoon we had a sorority meeting to welcome all the new members (that would be me) at Sandy’s house, she owns a beautiful bed and breakfast just blocks off the beach, we actually got a tour, wow! I am now a proud member of the sorority and have the black badge to prove it; they use this badge to collect the pins you get when you continue on your path, there are different levels you can get to if you want!
Now at last it is Friday night and it is the start of our very first Annual Bucerias Chili Cookoff! What a blast, I got there just after 4pm and started off by relieving Karen dishing out our chili while she had a smoke. 5 of us made a gallon each of chili (me too) and we put it all together for our allotted 5 gallons per table. We had a pot of beans to add to the chili if people wanted and we also had cheese, and stuff to put on top. We ran out of chili before the end, I think cause we put too much chili in the cups! I walked around a bit, said hi to Ralph and Geno while they were setting up and to almost everyone else, I love living in a small town, you see so many of your friends while doing these events! I meandered over to the ticket selling table where I had the late shift, we sold the drink and chili tickets, wow, we were selling them right to the end, what a great event, it was very successful!!!
That it about it for now…………………….the past couple of weeks have been so busy with family, meetings and stuff, we are trying to have a bit of down time. Oh forgot to mention that we are now the proud owners of a treadmill! On the yahoo group someone was advertising a free treadmill, it works great but the on/off switch doesn’t work so as soon as you plug it in it starts. I’m going to have to make sure it is going very slow when I’m done, hopefully I will lose some of this weight I have been putting on!!!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise!
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