Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday January 18th, 19th and 20th 2010
Wow, it’s been a while since I last updated my blog, lotsa stuff happening I guess, or I’m too lazy, nah, that can’t be it, we have a lot of stuff happening!
Monday afternoon Ross drove to Guayabitos to pick up Bruce and Bernice for a visit to our neck of paradise. They have been coming here for years and only went from the airport to Guayabitos back to the airport again, no travelling around the countryside. Once they got here Bernice and I had a glass of wine, and Bernice brought out 4 red and white wine coasters she made me and also a very Mexican looking tea light holder, that was so sweet of her. We all drove to Paradise Village in Nuevo after that so Ross and Bruce could attend a meeting while we two girls shopped. I don’t remember buying anything, but we sure looked!
Once Ross and Bruce were done we drove back to Bucerias to go to dinner at Meson Bay for all you can eat shrimp and fish. We were quite upset when we had to wait forever for Ross’s second helping and it was only 5 or 6 shrimps! We are used to so much better portions and quality of food from there but Monday night they were slow, the food was not up to par and at the end the messed up our bill and ended up giving us 3 different amounts we were to pay, thankfully they got cheaper and cheaper! Not a good rep for having new patrons there, we will go back as we are sure it was just an off night!
We left Meson bay and walked to the square to see the carnival for the festivities of the day. There was dancing in the square with very colourful costumes, and lots of vendors selling anything from booze to ice cream to jewelry to games of chance! I even got a cotton candy, but was told if I ate it my teeth would turn pink (of course the cotton candy was pink, a very, very, very bright pink) so I just had a taste, and let the kids at home have a taste, it is definitely different than up north! We got home and sat and chatted for a while before we all went to bed to have a very welcome sleep, we were all tired!
We got up early on Tuesday morning, Bruce and Bernice cause they always do and us cause Ross needed to be at the office at 9, I stayed at home to keep Bruce and Bernice company. When Ross got home we drove to the marina and had a very good lunch with 2X1 margaritas!!! There sure are lots of big boats there, some you just look at and go ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I want that one, and that one and that one………………..!!! We then drove to the market to look around, not much there anyone wanted, so we stopped into a little shop on the Malecon to pick up Jordan’s birthday present, it’s not quite what I wanted but I think it will be ok. We stopped off at Wal-Mart before coming home to pick up the luggage so Bernice could shop at the new fabric shop that just opened up and we needed to pick up a couple of things, one included popcorn for Ross but they didn’t have any.
We picked up their luggage and drove them back to Guayabitos then turning around to drive home. Before coming home we stopped off at Mega to look for popcorn, they didn’t have any, then we went to pick up my watch from the repair place, it wasn’t ready yet and we stopped at the new Chinese food kiosk to try their food and they just closed, boy did we bat a thousand! We came home to veg, watch TV then went to bed!
This morning we had to get up early as we picked up Mackenzie (John and Christie’s daughter, that speaks Spanish fluently) to help us get our water paid for the year (433 pesos) and put in our name along with putting our power in our name also. The power company was a breeze, I had everything they needed but the water company wasn’t as easy! We got there at 9:30 Jalisco time but the lady that looks after the contracts in the office was on Nayarit time so we drove to the municipal office to pay our taxes and they line up was very long. We decided to do that another day so we went to a restaurant on the beach and had breakfast. The tide was so high that a couple of them almost came up to our table and our table was the second row in from the ocean! We met a very nice kitty there, and gave him a little off our plates, he loved to nibble at Ross’s and Mackenzie’s hands to play.
We drove back to the water office and found we had everything we needed but I needed to make a copy of our floor plan of the house, the paid bill and a picture of the cross streets of our house. A lady at the office told us where there was a copy office (they have a lot here, they want copies of everything!), we found it but their copier was not working, and then next place same thing and the next place the same thing….. we ended up going to a copy shop on the lateral to get it done. Back to the water office and we had to wait in line until she was free, she gathered up all our stuff then told us to pay a bit more money for the name change, so back in line we went to pay, then back in line to give her the receipt. Yeah! Its done.
It’s only 2pm now but I thought I’d better get this typed before I forgot everything we did; Ross went with Larry (our friend with the new mustang) to Costco, just to ride in his car and I’m gonna see why my printer doesn’t want to scan.
I hope everyone has a great day!
Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise