Saturday January 9th, 2010
We woke up in Paradise this morning, but way too early! The alarm rang at 7:30am for our breakfast meeting at Ixta for the Amigos de Bucerias. Today was a special day as Ross had been nominated for president this year, we assumed he wouldn’t win, but he sure gave it the collage try! John was the only one on the executive committee that had anyone running against him, so the other 3 were a shoe in and Ross came in second, which isn’t bad, except there were only 2 running, but it was still really good! We are hoping to contribute a lot to the area this year and he will run next year. Bucerias is having something very similar to the taste of Edmonton at the end of January, called the taste of Riveria Nayarit. Restaurants will have tables set up with tastes of their wares for no more than 30 pesos. We have volunteered for a 2 hour stint cleaning up the area while things are going on. They are also going to have chalk art too, I’ll take a lot of pictures, and they may look like the ones we see on the internet, we are really excited about this. Last night at Ernesto’s we told our sweet friend Jennifer about it and she will be calling to see if they have any more room for her restaurant in Nuevo!
After our meeting we got home, I changed and tackled getting the rest of the Christmas decorations away. Lily got here at 1:30, Ross was snoozing as he is playing tonight so I didn’t get my bathroom cleaned, but, Mackenzie called for Lily (an emergency) so she is coming back Monday to finish, so yeah, my bathroom will be clean! I hate cleaning bathrooms! I really wanted a clean house today, but as I was getting my Christmas stuff packed I was also re-arranging all my stuff and cleaning as I go so I really did some cleaning today anyway. The house actually looks really good, to me anyway and that’s all that counts as Ross never notices anything!!! I re-arranged our outside sitting area so that all Ross’s music stuff that doesn’t fit into our 2nd bedroom (do you think…he needs to get organized) is now in the shed, which I re-arranged so we actually had more room in it (I was busy today)! It looks so good now, so does my kitchen, don’t look anywhere else, actually I cleaned off the tops of my buffet and china cabinet so they don’t look messy and put one of my plants on top of the buffet so it looks cozy!, at least I think so. Lily and I got our tacky Christmas lights down from the front of our house, I left a few, they are not tacky! At least to me!!!
Ross got up (finally, boy is he lazy (ok not really), yeah ok really, but I do love him to death (ok let’s not say THAT! Let’s get back to the topic OK), he got up and washed the car, he is going to Sayulita tonight and he is picking up Mike (a good friend of ours) to go tonight, I was going to stay at home (I’m beat) but I found out that Sue and Harold might be going, so I called them and if they go I will hitch a ride.
I’m gonna go now, it’s only 6:30 but if I don’t go to Sayulita tonight with Sue and Harold I’m going to go to bed at, I don’t know, 9??? I had no sleep last night, from Ross and just not being able to sleep and then Yoda, what can I say, he is a baby so he finds so many noisy things to play with during the night, rocks, something that sounded like tin foil???
Adios from Paradise (it’s funny that everyone we know that lives here calls it Paradise!)
Ross Kim and Critters!