Wednesday June 9th to Saturday June 12th 2010

Here are a few odds and ends pictures

Up at 6:30am with baby, she seems to be growing (I think, it is hard to tell) and loves her milk, I just need to get her to stay still, she loves to wiggle. I love feeding her, she makes the same noises as babies do when they eat, little sucking noises and mmmmmmm’s and ahhhhhs. NO I DON’T WANT ANOTHER BABY!!! Just for the record!

We dropped Baby off at John and Christie’s, Mackenzie is babysitting for the day while we go off on a boat ride with Pam and Derek. We have only used Vallarta Adventures for our tours so it was exciting to try someone else, Pam used Banderas Bay Tours and we went to Las Animas were you can sit on the beach and drink cerveza’s or dip in the ocean or you can stay on the boat for another 5 minutes and ride horses up to a wonderful waterfall at Quimixto. We had a great time, once aboard we got juice and then we stopped at the Vallarta pier to pick up more people, once they were aboard we were entertained by the crew. Later we got more juice, fruit and baked goods for breakfast then the bar opened.

We decided to sit on the beach rather than do the waterfall the panga’s came to pick us up to take us to the beach we sat on comfy beach chairs and chatted while we drank some cerveza’s. We took a short walk to a small market and looked around a bit then came across a man standing at a booth selling coconuts. He goes out every day and brings them back to make some money off the tourists. He charged 30 pesos per coconut and I’m told they were great, I don’t like them.

After a couple of hours we took the panga back to the boat and had a great meal of spaghetti and fajitas while the boat went to pick up the other people. We stopped at Los Arcos to snorkel but there were jelly fish around and the snorkeling wasn’t great so we didn’t stay long. On the way home they had a beer chugging contest and Pam was in the running for the girls, but didn’t win, rats.
We got home at 6, dropped of the kids at the resort then went to pick up our baby, she had a good day.

Thursday we picked up the kids at 6 at the resort to do a bit of shopping on the Malecon! We looked around a bit and cause we had to go pee went into a bar and got some cerveza’s to drink (which of course makes you go pee). Pam went into a shoe store and picked up a really nice pair of sandals. Derek needed to buy some cigars for his boss back home so he went into a store and they wanted an enormous amount of money for the cigars he wanted so he walked out and we strolled into a mini market not a half a block away. The guy came after Derek and offered to sell them to him a lot cheaper. He hummed and hawed for a bit before he went to purchase them. We walked up the block (opposite the beach) then turned towards the car and walked the back street. Unfortunately there weren’t too many shops there so we just got to the car without spending any money.

We drove back to Bucerias to go to Miguel Angels for dinner and they were closed! We went across the street to Adriano’s and had supper on the beach. Pam and I had pollo fajitas, we felt they were kinda bland and I think both Ross and Derek had Mahi Mahi, they were excellent.

Friday we met the kids on the beach at 1pm. We sat and talked for a while; Pam stopped a seller of jewelry on the beach and asked about an ankle bracelet. The guy measured Pam’s ankle with the chain she wanted then walked away to make it, leaving his display case sitting on Pam’s chair. He was gone for more than 15 minutes, by then we could have walked off with all his jewelry, we guessed he figured Canadian’s were trust worthy. We all went into the ocean and did some boogie boarding, then Pam and Derek rented some seadoos and we watched them dance over the waves (it was fairly windy so the waves were huge!) When everyone had enough sun and fun we drove to our house so Pam could pick up her photos and the photo disk of the wedding. They took off in our car so they could shower and change for supper. We drove to Miguel Angles for a lovely supper and Ross got to play with Lilo (the resident parrot) once more.

After supper we drove the kids back to the resort and after lots of hugs we went home. They had to catch their bus on Saturday at 4am! Yack!!! Christie called asking Ross to be a temporary vice president of The Amigos de Bucerias as John (the president) has been in the hospital and not doing at all well (bacterial meningitis) so Christie as VP took over the presidency and we needed a VP. Ross accepted and will be now among the elite to go to the executive meetings! How fun!!!

Today I got up at 8 to be at Mega by 9 for our animal adoption. The cat lady was also there from Pet Haven, but no cats were adopted, we did have a good time though and I have introduced baby to Sue and Harold.

We are just putzing around now, Ross watching TV and me of course, doing the blog. We plan to sit tight tonight, I didn’t get very much sleep last night so I am hoping for an early night.

Pam and Derek now in Edmonton and Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise