Saturday and Sunday December 26th & 27th, 2009

Saturday was almost perfect. We slept in then did absolutely nothing except what we wanted to do! Ross vacuumed the car and finally cleaned out the trunk, it’s surprising what you find when you clean out the trunk of your car……………. I got my office cleaned up, I swept the floor and put baskets up on top of the bookshelf where they belong…rather than the floor or using up precious bookshelf space. I actually found my desk and got it all cleaned up (it had old bills, business cards that needed taking apart and put away) it looks so nice now!

We drove to Sayulita around 7pm for the gig at the Los Afortunados pub, which was a great success. Ralph’s family is here for Christmas and most of them came out for this gig and by the time they started the second set, it was packed! They didn’t serve dinner there (as they are normally closed on Saturdays) so we went to a small place that has the best hamburgers we have had for a very long time a few doors down from the pub. Everyone, I think, got one (we made them lots of money that night), they were like ones that you would make yourself! The hamburger was really fat with all the trimmings, and some super fantastic French fries (they were long and stringy??? Very strange, but very good)!

We didn’t get home until about, ok I’m guessing here, 1:30 or so and finally fell asleep, shortly before 11:30 am (at least it seems that way) and crawled out of bed knowing a turkey needed to be put in around 1am ish. We forgot to thaw the bacon so that went in the microwave to thaw before coffee was made (if we do both at the same time we blow a fuse) then I got those cut up and fried, then did the onion and butter and finally put the bread crumbs in (with the poultry seasoning I brought from the states, can’t find it here, have enough for 4 more dinners!) The turkey was great, it was all cleaned with the giblets and such in a plastic bag in the cavity of the bird all I had to do was dry it out and start to stuff it. Now is the time to let everyone know that we woke up to no water! Anywhere! We had to go out to the front of the house, fill it with water (cold, now why did I get our hot water working??) to wash the dishes. We were hoping for sometime during the day the pressure would be enough to fill our tinaco (but alas no…………it’s 9:36 pm and we still don’t have any water). Oh well, only in Mexico…..which is really funny, because the two couples we invited to dinner, (Harold, Sue, Dick and Mary Carmen) weren’t surprised we didn’t have any water (they have lived here long enough that it wasn’t surprising)! I got the turkey ready for the oven, went to turn the oven on to 325 and guess what? Since we haven’t used the oven before instead of temperatures I was faced with the units 5, 4, 3, 2, 1?!?!?!?!? After turning my office upside down looking for my oven instruction booklet it told you the degrees of Celsius for each of the numbers….but yack….which one is 325F???? I have always cooked my turkeys at 325. Well, I found out that 325 was 2. Which in hindsight is incorrect cause it took way too long to cook my turkey, so off to somewhere to get an oven thermometer to see what number is really 325. After hiking up the oven to 5 (high) the turkey came out of the oven at 6:30 and the skin was still not very brown, but the turkey was soooooooooooooo moist! After waiting forever, and just meeting these people at the end of July, so I was kinda anxious about having a nice dinner, but they were so cool……………….Sue helped with gravy and we had a wonderful dinner.

I set the big table outside with a red tablecloth and my Christmas dishes (which we used paper plates and put them on top of the dishes as we don’t have any water) and we had turkey with gravy, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, wild rice with of course veggies and cranberry sauce. We sat outside until way past dinner (Ross got up and cleaned up…………have I told anyone today that I sure love him!) and chatted about Mexico, stolen license plates and fixes, animals………….. It was kinda nice also that our company didn’t mind watching our food (or anything else) so the animals weren’t doing what they shouldn’t have been doing, like I don’t know, eating people food.

Now Ross is watching Criminal Minds and I am, of course, writing my blog, we are both stuffed and we still don’t have any water. We are going to call our plumber in the New Year to get our cistern up and running, we figure it will be worth it! It’s not that we don’t have any street water; it’s that the pressure is not great enough to travel up the pipes to our tinaco to fill so we have water at our taps. We were talking about it earlier wondering if it was really worth it, well, we know now it is!

I’m going to say adios for tonight, I’m pooped, we still don’t have any water but there is always tomorrow! Or the next day, or the next, or the next………..

Ross, Kim and Critters in Paradise at Christmas time!