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Tuesday August 24th to Saturday August 28th, 2010

Wow where did the time go?????????

We had a really good picture of Larry to give to Lorena, so we went to the photographers to have them take it from the camera and make a 8 X 10 Photo of Larry that was taken just weeks ago at the Twisted Rose restaurant. We couldn’t get it today for the party so we went to Walmart to have the picture done with their one hour photo. While we were waiting for it Ross had a free cone and I had a frappuccino, and we sat in the mall watching kids play in big blow up balls in a small pool, kinda cool, we saw the same thing at the Ex! We walked down the mall, looked in the fabric store, then we went back into Walmart to get a couple of inhalers for me. Once we got everything we went home, I detoured to Mega and got a couple of salads for the do tonight and got some scooter gas.

Part 3 of a Mexican funeral

We got to Larry and Lorena’s house at 8:30 and there were chairs out on the street and on their driveway. Sue, a friend of ours, had explained to Lorena that our custom (US and Cdn) is to bring food over so the bereaved doesn’t have to worry about feeding the people that come to pay their respect. We picked up 2 salads from Mega, a macaroni salad and a potato salad, but didn’t even think to bring plates or forks/spoons, but someone brought some. Mary Carmen brought deviled eggs, yum!
Larry requested a mariachi band play and tequila run freely so at 9pm the mariachi band came and performed, they were the same ones that performed at Larry’s house on the night we were saying goodbye to our good friend that moved to Colorado, which was kinda cool. We all nibbled and chatted among ourselves and after the band played everyone chatted about Larry, who he was, how much he was loved, and how silly he was. Lorena brought our Larry’s ashes to listen to the band, I asked her if she think he enjoyed it, with a twinkle in her eye she said he moved a little bit with the music, he sure loved mariachi music! We must have left shortly before midnight, it was a good day!!!

On Wednesday we scooted to Galleria Mall to see a show, anything to get out of this heat for a while. Lo and behold when we went to get our tickets, Mike and Mandy were in line (there is no line they were ahead of us) to see the same move “The Destructibles” , with Sly Stallone with a cameo appearances by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, it was shoot’m up kinda movie (well of course with Sly in it) Ross loved it, it was ok, I loved the air conditioning though.

Thursday Ross had a meeting at 10 for the streetlight committee and I was over at Rita’s at 9:30 to help with the crafts to be sold at the charity event the sorority sisters have in November. I helped threading elastic into material which will be a water cooler bottle cover. I also made a chain out of some funky wool type stuff, when you put 5 chains together it makes a necklace, how ingenious! Lily came today to clean my house, hurray, she even swept our outside patio and cleaned my burners on my stove, I think I may love her!

Friday we had a BBQ after the meeting of AA. Karen and Bob hosted it, it was Karen’s 33rd birthday with AA congrats! When we were scooting home after the BBQ we saw at least hundreds of crabs going all across the street (the main one in Nuevo) it looked like they were going towards the ocean, why they were away from it I don’t know (Ross thought maybe mating???). It was very difficult to swerve around them, so many were squished by cars, they weren’t little either, kinda saucer size. I wish we could have taken a picture, but it was on the road and very dark, very interesting though another first for us!!!

Well it is Saturday now, Ross had a breakfast meeting at Sweet Things for the Amigos de Bucerias, as he is the acting interim provisional vice president, hey, I got to sleep in, not much though. It started lightning around midnight last night, but no thunder! Every time I woke up I could see the lightning!!! Ross got up a few times to watch but it was all up in the clouds.

I am doing the Saturday routine, laundry, so the sheets are being washed as we speak (or you read, not it will be done by then). We got the good news that Betsy (it isn’t good news as we really really loved her) was definitely sold and we should have the money shortly. The man who bought her is heading to Nova Scotia!
The supper club tonight is going to Brazil, a special restaurant in Paradise Plaza where it is a buffet and they actually bring it to you!!! I’ll let you know how good it was tomorrow!!!

Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise