Wednesday June 2nd to Monday June 7th 2010

Yes I know, it has been awhile, and I don’t even have an excuse!

It is Monday today and I will try to recap our last few days.

Wednesday was a red letter day; we were at the transito office at 10:30 am, after Sue calling to make sure their systems were up, guess what, their system went down again. That was it, we decided to get some breakfast at the great restaurant down stairs then we were going to go. Just as we finished breakfast the system came up again. I am trying to remember how many lines we ended up lining up for or how many times we had to go to the copia (copy store next door) and how many copies of documents we needed, just let me tell you we were out of there around 2pm, 2,000 pesos lighter and 2 license plates heavier (see pictures) Hurray!!!
After we got back I went over to Sue’s house to pick her up to drive to PV to the Soriana grocery store to meet up with the concierge they know that had a copy of Rosetta stone for me, another hurray. We also went to the material store to pick up some webbing for Sue to have her lawn chairs fixed, the sun just rots almost everything down here.

Wednesday was a down day, not much happened, but it was another beautiful day in paradise.

Thursday I got my nails done and then Lily came by to clean for the big arrival of Pamela and Derek.

Friday Ross had his gig at The Fairmont Rancho Banderas, I stayed home and had a great time eating popcorn and watching great TV shows.
Hurray! Pam and Derek are here!!! We met them outside their resort at 2pm and went up to their room, wow, they got placed in building 1 (right on the beach ocean view).When they first arrived someone took Derek’s suitcase while they were doing an orientation, Derek just came unglued and the resort had, probably, every spare employee looking for it. They found it in the middle of a hallway, who ever took it didn’t bother to tell anyone that they took the wrong case, they just left it, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. And to top it off that was the suitcase that had my spice cake mixes in it!

Ross and I drove back to the house to get our swimsuits (not flannel) on and we popped back and met them on the beach, where there was a surf boarding competition going on, wow that was so cool, there were so many out there that you couldn’t count them all, as far as the eye could see we saw them. We left Pam and Derek at the beach to meet back up at 5 to go out to dinner.

We picked them up and we drove to Karen’s restaurant, they wanted fish. Derek and Ross had the mahi mahi (which they both loved), Pam had the pasta and I had my shrimp and avocado salad. It was all delicious. After supper we drove them down the river (which was a big hit) then we drove to Bucerias Centro where we ended up at a restaurant the Pam wanted to go to Miquels Angel where we met a parrot (he sat on all of us at some point) and of course met Miguel, and Derek ordered two dinners of shrimp, one butterfly and one shrimp wrapped in bacon with garlic. We took some of it home (it is still in the fridge). We did a bit more sightseeing before driving them back to the resort.

We slept in on Sunday (what else is new) and lazed around until we left for Ana Banana’s around 5:30. Ross emptied the car of his drums to set up and at 6:15 I left to pick up Pam and Derek to bring them back. We had a grand time, they loved the band, Pam and I got up to dance a bit too. The evening just flew by; I drove them back to their resort on the last song (Mustang Sally) so I could drive back so Ross could pack his drums back into the car.

It is now Monday, Pam and Derek went to a time share presentation at the Flamingos (they got a round of golf, 2 free tickets to go onto a day trip (they are going to try to get 4 so we can go) and an ATV 4 hour tour. The time share should have ended at 11 or so then Pam was going to call to either let us know they are going on the ATV tour or they were going to come over to take the scooters for a ride. It is now 2 and she still hasn’t phoned so I assume they are still tied up. Ross is empting the car (their gig tonight has been cancelled) and we still have no water. We are still floating in the pool to freshen up, but I really need a shower!!!

Pam Derek Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise