Sunday and Monday February 7th & 8th, 2mil10
Do you love my date, I saw that on a poster going into Vallarta today, I have never seen it written that way!

Sunday was a quiet day; we slept in way too late as Ross played in Lo de Marcos Saturday for their annual fundraiser so it was another late night. We pretty well putzed all afternoon until we had to go to La Cruz for the annual Super Bowl party at Ana Banana’s, Juan-Ted and the Amazing Rhythm Roosters played with some local musicians, wow, did we have a great time! There was a silent auction, a regular auction; tables of clothing, electronics and brownies for sale, all wonderful and the weather couldn’t have been nicer! Ross and I went to a small restaurant and had some nachos before the performance and for next to nothing we had a huge plate of nachos with cheese and stuff, I had a coke (sorry Pepsi, that’s all they had) and Ross had Agua.

Today we decided we needed to go into Vallarta to do a major shop of tp and stuff. We first stopped at Comex (a paint store) to buy some more flat black paint for our bars, then to the Pepsi outlet we found out about (just behind Home Depot, kinda) from Bob, then to Office Depot to get some certificate paper for thank you plaques for our small little town and some more DVD’s, I finally got our VHS dubbing DVD player working and I ran out of DVD’s. We then stopped at Costco to pick up a few things and received a call from Francisco (our handy man) that he was at our house with the welder to fix out gate. We rushed home, as well as you can rush in Mexico, as we really, really, really, wanted our gate fixed (the hinge had come off the gate so every time you opened or closed our gate you had to pull up which was a big pain) after we ate our hotdogs really fast.

It is so funny to see a welder work in Mexico, all their equipment is older than the hills (and that is really old), the electrical cords have more holes in them than a strainer and there is no plug cord, just a couple of wires hanging out that they had to take the face plate off our electrical outlet outside to make the welder work. We cringed but it seemed to work, we now have a gate that opens like butter. Francisco stayed to finish the painting and we took off back to Vallarta to finish our shopping. We first went to Plaza Caracol (a shopping mall) for Ross to pick up a new drum head (he busted his playing in Lo de Marcos) and he found a set of drum mikes super cheap so we got those too. We then drove to Sam’s club (Wal-Mart’s Costco) and picked up a cooler with wheels and a few other goodies, then off to Wal-Mart where Ross found his Becel (you would think he found the big dipper (he can’t find that in our sky) he was so excited he almost cryed). We finally finished our shopping with a stop at Mega (we couldn’t find popping corn anywhere) for popcorn and a cookie sheet. If I had known it was so hard to buy baking trays down here I would have brought my own down!!!

We got home in the dark and had some spaghetti for supper and now we are having to go to bed as we have to get up early to get to the office by 9, another week and I will be getting my nails done for the wedding!! We found out tonight that Ashleigh can come to the wedding so we are really excited about that. She is bringing her new beau with her, so we are excited to be meeting him as well.

Adios from Paradise!
Ross Kim and Critters