Wednesday, Thursday & Friday October 28th, 29th and 30th, 2009

Wow have I ever been lax on writing my blog, can I remember what we did that far back? I’ll write as I remember.

On Wednesday we went out to dinner in Vallarta to a restaurant called Teatro Limon. This was a private dinner hosted by Bruce (the owner of the restaurant) and the restaurant is his private home! It is an open area with the kitchen to the front and left of the restaurant with a fireplace on the right wall in the middle of the room then to the back of the room and to the right is a bar. The choice of food was a pork medallion wrapped in bacon with a piece of sausage in the centre, with a small squash cut in half with scalloped edges with a few veggies in it (very posh) with some small potatoes or Cornish Hen. The party was for a long time resident that almost died from being sick but is getting better and will probably be fine after awile.

Yesterday Lily came by with Christie and Mackenzie (Christie’s other daughter) to let us know that Lily had some concerns about working with us. She loves us to death but it is far for her to walk to the bus from her house and then walk all the way to our house, then of course walk back to the bus then back to her house and then work for 3-4 hours. Now I offered to drive Lily but she kept saying no, anyway she is now coming twice a month for 250 pesos each and I will drive her to the bus stop after she is done at our house. This actually is good for us because we were spending around 200 pesos a week and we really aren’t that dirty. Lily also complained that I wouldn’t let her make my bed, I explained to her I have never had a maid before and didn’t know what she should be doing, that told her a lot and then she laughed.

Nick and Mike came over around 5 and they had a rehearsal until around 7 then Ross and I went over to Britannia for some fish and chips for Ross and cottage pie for me, I think I like the fish and chips better. Mike was there along with Leon (the old guy (he’s a looker… according to Philo) that plays the washboard) then we all went to Philo’s for the open stage (after of course Philo’s band plays first and Philo leads the open stage!) The only problem we have right now is that the noise the guys made in the band room scared Maggie and she hasn’t been home since. We hope she will come back soon!

We slept in this morning and had our coffee, of course outside on the patio in Paradise, and have just been bumming around. We had some corn soup for lunch (not bad) and we are watching our Corrie Street that we record 2 ½ hours every Sunday. I think we are on hour 2 now. We are going to Ross’s AA meeting tonight and then going over to Paradise village for an AA birthday BBQ they have at the end of every month. We won’t be out late tonight, thank goodness, I’m tired of being. I have had an e-mail from Deb and she is coming back down in February, so we are looking forward to visiting with them again. I feel really bad they are stuck in Edmonton until then!

We found out the Ashleigh, Ross’s daughter just got over the H1N1 flu! I have spoken with my daughter Pamela, she works for the U of A (University of Alberta) and she has been working until 11 pm some nights scheduling clinics because of H1N1 and the regular flu’s. the labs are so busy that doctors are now not even testing for H1N1 they are sending them to the clinics now. It’s crazy!

Well, that’s it for now; I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ross and Kim in Paradise