Tuesday October 27th, 2009

It is a sad day in Paradise, Tara had to leave to go back to the cold north, (snow the yucky 4 letter word) but the good news is we woke up in Mexico today and it is an excellent day. The sun is shining, only a couple of fluffy clouds and Maggie came to visit us last night and is here again tonight! (Maggie is a Mexican mutt that we befriended when we first got here, she had her tail between her legs and as we talked with her she came to love us and she is sitting on the couch right now bugging Ross, he is trying to use the internet but she keeps bumping him for more loving)
Tara ran into the house around 12 letting us know that she screwed up and her flight leaves at 3:30 rather than 4:30 and we had about 1 hour to get ready to get her to the airport on time. We all had quick showers and headed out, only to be in a super traffic jam, going into Vallarta (we are not used to that) and ended up getting to the airport at almost 2, only an hour and a half before her flight, but as this is Mexico it doesn’t take super long to get through security so it was ok. We are so sorry to see her go, but then again, we are by ourselves again, which always is a good thing, as much as we love everyone!

We got home from the airport and had a super short siesta then drifted in the pool until the time we needed to get ready to go back to Vallarta to a dinner meeting at the Sirloin Stockade at the mall across the street from the cruise ship dock. Oh by the way on the way to the airport and on the way to supper the Federal Police had a road block up going into Vallarta to check, I’m assuming, drug runners. There was even a federal police airplane at the airport and there were a lot of trucks with the army guys in them. Believe it or not we feel so secure here! We had a great supper (Ross had 4 plates of food and 4 plates of dessert) I had some salad, broccoli/cheese soup and some great stir fry and some apple crisp and some rice pudding for dessert.

We left at about 9 and got to La Cruz shortly before 10 and had a great time at Britannia Pub. Ross played a bit, Eugene was there (he plays guitar and is moving in 2 days to another part of Mexico) along with the regulars Nick, Mike, Carlos etc. We didn’t get home until after midnight and I think got to bed around 1. We slept in until noon today, drank our coffee outside (it’s 30 with 60% humidity (it’s cooling off thank goodness)) and now are doing our computer stuff then will shower and run a few errands before going to a supper (again in Vallarta) for a guy that was very sick that ran one of the groups in yahoo and he is now better. Ross just got an email that the restaurant has been changed so I have to find out where it is, so I’ll say bye for now and will talk to you soon.

Ross and Kim in Paradise!