Tuesday Aug 4th, 2009

I want to hear everyone to say, all together, awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, I was at the beach tonight and a big wave caught me and I scraped my leg on the sand! Come on.....it hurt! Hi all, another day in paradise.

You know you are in Mexico when you are driving home at night and in the middle of the road is a dog sleeping. Now where we come from, the dog would jump up and get out of the way, oh no, not in Mexico, you have to drive around them! He was still sleeping when I watch him/her in the rear view mirror.

Today has been an exceptional day. The cell phone I bought yesterday at Mega (remember it’s like superstore) wasn’t working, it took Zack (John and Christies 18 year old son) thanks, about 2 hours to try to register my phone, they even wanted my passport number and I still don’t know if it will work. Zack told me to wait 24 hours to see if it will work. My cell phone number (when it works) will be 011 52 1 322 229-4947, I just tried it and it still doesn’t work, it’s 10:05 right now which is 9:05 in Edmonton.

We got our letter from the notary today which is the letter that tells everyone that we own this house, which we were supposed to need for getting our internet done. Well, we went to Telecable, (10.00 a month), and they don’t go this far from the highway so we ended up going to Telmex (who owns the world, all right, not all of it, but all in Mexico! We didn’t need the letter, but we now will have phone (I don’t know the number) and internet in...........wait for it...............maybe 3 weeks! It’s better than a couple of years ago, it was 3 months!

We also went to get the license plate for Baby (My new scooter) and we have to wait until it is delivered on Thursday (2 more sleeps) and then I will have to drive to Mezcales, another town over south of us, to get the plate, the insurance is not mandatory! So we will wait until we get both of them, Oh yeah, I bought one for Ross too, Baby is black and Ross’s is blue. Ross is getting his in about a week.

So today we have ADSL coming in 3 weeks, maybe a cell phone tomorrow and license plates in a couple of weeks. A great day in Bucerias. But then of course even in a normal day in paradise is still a great day!

Ya know, they say, or we say, that everything happens for a reason. Everything that we needed to do to get down here, seemed to just fall into place. Well you will never believe what happened tonight on the beach. To give you some history, a friend of ours that has a time share at the Mayan for the whole month of January, that Ross worked with at CRA, asked if we could bring some jeep parts to a friend of his that worked at the Mayan. We brought them down for him and he picked them up a couple of days ago and left to visit relatives in Toronto. Well.............. we took the dogs to the beach the other day, and big dog went to sniff a dog that a girl had on a leash and she was quite concerned because she was dog sitting the dog and this was the first time she had taken her out and she didn’t know what the dog would do with another dog, so she was concerned. They sniffed and all was well. I chatted with the girl for a bit, she speaks English really well and then she walked on. We met her again tonight and we started to talk. I told her we needed someone to house sit for us when we go back to the states to sell Betsy (sorry, but the land next to us is for sale and we need to get some cash) and we need someone to housesit for us while we do this. She said she wasn’t married and didn’t have any children so she would be glad to do this for us, she said she worked at the Mayan. I told her we know someone that works there and I asked her if she knew Scott. Well, you are not going to believe this, she not only knows him, she is walking his dog as he is gone! She said that she can give us references but if Scott says she is ok, that will be good enough for us!


Talk to you soon
Ross and Kim