Wednesday July 28th to Tuesday August 3rd, 2010


Well we are home, hurray! It is great to see family and friends, but boy it’s nice to be home.

What did we do????????????????? We had to drop Betsy off at Pam and Derek’s for Derek to sell her. We sure miss her. We dropped her off at 5ish, cleaned her out then went out to eat at the Sawmill, Ross had the salad bar and I had French onion soup, yum! We took a picture of a billboard, if I remember to post it you will laugh! After supper we went to the apartment that Ross’s Mum Barbara rented for us that is in the same building as she is.

Wednesday we went out for lunch with Ross’s ex co-workers which was great then went to Ashleigh’s soccer game, wow, lots and lots of mosquitoes.

On Thursday we went to Capital Ex, the exhibition that comes to town once a year. We got our parking free and our admission with our Indy credentials, cool heh. We got to see our good friend Tim who was selling his really neat t-shirts and Ross tried to win me a stuffed animal, but I had to do that all by myself, I got a red stuffed frog. We also got a steak sandwich each from the food vouchers we received during the race; all in all it was great. We thought the dream home was kinda lame, but oh well, we have never purchased a ticket on it anyway. We ran into our good friend Ralph from the race and walked around with him for a while, he is our age and I think he said he had never been to the exhibition in Edmonton. Wow! We also went to the U of A hospital Thursday before the ex and visited our good friend Lynn, he is in intensive care after a motor cycle accident a couple of weeks before, he is so lucky to be alive.

Friday was our last day in Edmonton; after stopping at Walmart for a couple of things we met up with our good friend Paul and went back to the Spectrum at the ex grounds for more free food from northlands (the group that put in the Indy). After dropping off Paul we drove downtown to meet Darren, a friend from the race that is looking to build in Mexico. Ross’s Mum Barbara, Pamela, Lexi, Ross and I went to the Olive Garden for dinner it was terrific, but I did notice that the Fettuccini Alfredo at California Pizza is much better. Pam and Lexi were late getting to the restaurant and by the time they got there Ross had to leave for his meeting so Pam drove us back to Barbara’s house.

Saturday was plane day, we dropped stuff off at Barbara’s house and stopped at Timmy’s before heading off to the airport. As we had baby girl with us we had to go in a different line than most and with 5 bags we were surprised that only one was overweight, so we changed things around a bit and off we went. We had breakfast at the airport, then fed baby girl and had her go potty (I had brought so litter for her in my backpack) and boarded the plane. You are not going to believe this but she slept the whole way, only to wake up at the airport in Vallarta where she went potty again before we got to immigration. Sue and Harold picked us up from the airport and brought us home to our waiting critters, well, we were waiting for them. After dropping off the suitcases, saying hi to Felix and our babies we went out for dinner with the supper club to Ixta, a restaurant we use for our Amigos meetings. Supper was good, seeing our friends was better.

Sunday we were invited to Mandy’s house for a BBQ, wow what fun, we played volleyball in the pool, I have never done that before!!! The BBQ hamburgers were excellent and so were the friends we saw there.

Monday Ross and Larry did a Costco run, I stayed home to finish the unpacking, yuck. We went and visited John and Christie for a bit then went to a restaurant called Matsuri for dinner (a sushi place) and the food was incredible, yum, we will definitely go back there again.

Tuesday (today hurray) Ed came to get the car to fix the ucky sound (it was the air-conditioning pulley that was making the racket, and he heard our alternator make a funny noise so he has kept the car to fix that, I forgot to mention that on Monday when we drove to Walmart to pick up a few things our rear view mirror fell off our windshield! I guess the heat got to it so we had to get some sticky stuff to put that back on. I want Ed to check out my scooter tomorrow too, see why it won’t start. Lily is coming over to clean the house tomorrow, so I’m going to stay home while Ross goes to the meeting for The Bucerias Chili Cook-Off and The Bucerias Street Festival.

I’m finally finished, wow, cool. If I forgot anything, Ross will remind me. I have already told him if he finds fault with my blog he can do it himself next time!!! He says I should have kept better track of things, I'll better track him in a minute!

Ross and Kim back in Paradise with our Critters.