Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday February 1, 2nd and 3rd, 2010
Well, did we have a storm last night, wow!!! The winds, we are told, were 160kmh (the 3rd in 60 years) and palm trees and every other kinda tree’s were blown down all through Bucerias, Puerto Vallarta all the way to Lo de Marcos. We had a storm surge coming through our front door from the wind and the rain. Ross is in his element! We were up most of the night last night listening to the wind and the breaking windows and rain and stuff being blown around. We are very lucky, our Bucerias weather station is in ruins but our table and chairs up top have survived and everything else in our little world!

Ross picked up Bruce and Bernice from Guayabitos and brought them for another visit to our piece of paradise. They got here around 3 and we went to the beach for an hour or so then back home to get to Nuevo by 6. Bernice and I sat at Starbucks until she decided she wanted to visit a shop that she could see from where we were sitting, and I ended up spending money instead of her. I picked something up for the girls and Stacy to take to Cancun with us for the wedding. We went to Riveria for supper, which was a mistake for the restaurant as they had 2 servers phone in sick and they were full to capacity and had people waiting! Which is good, but bad, to top it off someone broke something off in the women’s baño so there was water squirting out of the wall something fierce! We had a great meal and got home to watch a bit of TV and for Bernice and me more wine!!!!!

We had to wake up early for our stint in the office and we also had a meeting with everyone today so up at 7:30 to be at the office at 9. Since it was raining quite steady and we didn’t have much foot traffic, once the meeting was over we drove home to meet up with our friend to go for lunch. We stopped off at Karen’s place on the beach but they were full so we drove down a couple of blocks and had a great lunch at Luna Luna. Ross and Bruce had breakfast (it was great) and Bernice and I had a camarón (shrimp), pineapple, and I think chicken sandwich (kinda) and it was great. Because it was cold we all ordered coffee (I ordered a shot of Kailua with mine, which was good cause Mexican coffee tastes funny to me) except for Bernice, she had cappuccino!

After lunch we drove to Wal-Mart for some wine and stuff for Bruce and Bernice to take back to Guayabitos with them. We came home to pick up their suitcase (they spent the night in our motor home) and we drove them back to their motel. We were so toast we decided to drive back home (Bruce and Bernice wanted to buy us supper) and we vegged, it was great. Neither one of us have been sleeping well so we decided to go to bed early and then the storm hit. Wow, it was scary and exciting at the same time! In the middle of the night I put a blanket in front of the front door in front of our bedroom also so the rain was soaked up a bit. I even moved my jewelry box (it is on legs) so the wood would not get wet!

We woke up (we really were up several times) at 11 ish??? I didn’t want to get up! But Ross made me. We had a luncheon meeting with a good friend of Ross’s at the Mayan at 1 so we really needed to get up. It was very interesting driving to the Mayan as we had to drive through Nuevo and it is much closer to the ocean than we are and we saw so many palm trees and other trees down. Really close to home a 20’ fig tree was down! The roots of the trees are not really embedded in the ground I don’t think cause the trees are down but not much ground is moved.
We had a great luncheon with Gwen at the Mayan and then went up to her room to meet her husband, son, daughter-in-law and grandbaby! The grandbaby is one month younger than Melanie!!! We had a great visit and while driving back home our exhaust problem got huge and we ended up having to call a tow truck. A couple of days ago we heard a hissing noise in our exhaust and called our mechanic to come today to see if he could fix it. As we have had a lot of rain we cancelled today and rescheduled for tomorrow, wrong move. The exhaust completely came apart from the underside of our car and was dragging on the ground. Ross went with the tow truck and I took a taxi home.

We are now watching Criminal Minds, its 8:20 pm and we are very tired from staying up so late last night so I think it will be bedtime soon. We either have to have our car fixed tomorrow afternoon or we need to rent a car as we need to be in Guayabitos by 7 tomorrow night for Nelly’s! So goodnight for now and have a great day tomorrow!

Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise!