Sunday September 20, 2009

How was every body’s day? We had a great day! Got up after a very good sleep and sat upstairs on our palapa drinking coffee and enjoying the day. The “girls” went to Mega and had a great time shopping and checking out all the neat things you find in a store in a different country. We picked up some refried black beans for a snack later (which were very good a long with chips and salsa) and I bought some chorizo sausages for supper.

Once we had unpacked the groceries and had some lunch we drove up the river where there is a market every Sunday, but we were late and they were packing up. There is a really nice highway, really scenic, that we drove on (I have noted this highway before) and we found out it is the same highway that runs a couple of blocks from our house. We drove to John and Christie’s to feed their 3 dogs, (They are in Tepic visiting their son that is in Bible College) then we went down to the beach. Ross automatically went right in, I didn’t go in as my knee has not healed over yet and I don’t want salt water stinging in the wound. Trina waded in and actually got up to her neck, she got some water on her lip and she found out how salty the ocean is. Lynn walked and got her feet wet looking for neat looking rocks.

We drove north beside the 200 to see if we could find the RV park that we had seen from the highway. We found it; it is gorgeous, right on the beach but booked up right through the high season. We thought we might be able to park Betsy there and rent her out or have a beach house. We drove to Centro Bucerias and parked, and we walked along the market, and yet again, everyone was packing up to go home. Which is what we did, after stopping at Oxxo for water for Trina and eggs.

Today was a red letter day; we made Margarita’s in my brand new margarita machine. It shaves the ice and blends it in while mixing the drink, just like a blender! They were very good too, unfortunately it is so hot the ice melted but we rimmed the glasses with salt and drank them anyway. We had a great supper, Ross had steak and the three of us girls had the Chorizo sausages, BBQ’d with rice and veggies and a salad! Very nummy. Ross, Lynn and I got our bathing suits on and jumped in the pool and probably stayed in there for at least an hour, it was so nice.

We were all pretty beat, the sun and humidity plays a large role in your energy level. We didn’t stay up very late and we need to get up early for the market and Malecon.

Ross, Kim, Lynn and Trina in Paradise.