Monday to Wednesday April 19th to 21st , 2010

Happy Birthday Barbara…89 and holding!

It is Barbara’s birthday today, could you guess? If anyone doesn’t know, she is the one responsible for Ross!!! So don’t look at me!

We met up at Diana Miller’s house with John and Christie in regards to having us list her house; we’ll have to see if she signs with us, we hope so! Ross got a call about another house that was just reduced to 190,000 that we fell in love with when we were looking! It is 3 blocks off the beach and is just gorgeous; I think 2 bedrooms and a real kitchen with cupboards and everything. It has a small pool in the back yard (that is the only yard there is) and a palapa on the third floor that has a couple of hammocks, what luxury!!!

I forgot to mention the last time we went into Vallarta we finally stopped and went into…………..wait…………..wait………….Woolworth, I took a picture!

Happy Birthday Mike!

Tuesday was Mikey’s birthday (a good friend of ours down here, he is from Calgary and he is 44 today), we were invited to go down to Britannia’s for the open jam and to wish him a Happy Birthday, so on the way to La Cruz (where the pub is) we stopped off at Beto’s mini super to get him a small bottle of tequila, however we just read the first name on the bottle and found out it was brandy, Don something or other.
Ross manned the office this morning; I again didn’t sleep well so he let me sleep in, what’s not to love. I got up and by 10 I was ready to go, Ross told me not to worry about coming in today so I hopped onto Baby and went to the bank so they could unlock me (I had a seniors moment and locked up the online account by putting in the wrong password too many times and couldn’t get it to work) I spoke with Laura, another gringo helper, we got it fixed no problem. I was trying to put in the info as we had it before and I needed to put in new info, I know now how to fix it if/when I screw up again.

I then drove to the office to see how Ross was doing, then off to the post office to see if my package of mail Pam sent me was in yet. It wasn’t but I did get Ross’s and my birthday cards from Barbara and a Christmas card from Marilyn Ross’s sister (it came in the same package) with some pictures of our last day in Edmonton at Pam’s house, they were wonderful, I will have to scan them in, then post them for everyone to see.

We left for the pub in La Cruz at 7:30ish, Ross played for a bit and we were at home in time for NCIS. We heard that Mike got so drunk they even screwed up playing Mustang Sally (that is a song you can never go wrong, but Mike did)
Wednesday we decided to drive to PV to pick up Ross’s ring from the market (it looks great) and I bought a sundress for 100 pesos and a top (I am wearing it now) for 190 pesos, I might have to go back and get a few more, it is so comfy! It is one size fits all, draw string ties on the shoulders and some fancy work on the collar. I will have to take a picture. We stopped at Costco and our Canadian cards had expired so we got two Mexican Costco cards (slowly but surely we are cutting ties), Ross wanted a hotdog and they were OUT! The world has come to an end Yike; he had some of my chicken stuff. We stopped off at Wal-Mart to get a few odds and ends, including some non-clumping cat litter that we are told is better to collect moisture (the RV and house) than the moisture beads they sell you. All I need to do is make sure when I put it around in containers in the house that the cats don’t use it!!!

There were only two cruise ships in the harbor today, Oosterdam and Carnival Splendor, we don’t know what happened to the other one that normally is in too.
Ross went to his meeting and I am sitting at the office, it is a beautiful night but alas not many people walking. I did meet however a guy from Calgary that now lives in La Cruz that is putting together big concert events down here in the Marina. He has been meeting up with all the right people and wants to talk with Ralph about the Blues Festival he wants to do next year. Everything for a reason!

Well I’ll say adios for now. I have added a picture of us on the beach, again! Yoda sleeping and Woolworths!

Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise!