Don't forget I am now blogging in our own website at casacable.com

Thursday October 28th to Wednesday November 3rd, 2010

Now this is really spooky…………..we have our bottled water delivered by a truck that comes around 3 times a week, when we are running low we replace the ones we have used. Since the guys that deliver the water don’t speak English, in order to remember how much they cost I have got into the habit of writing the price of the bottles on top of the last bottles lid (which of course once we put the bottle on the cooler it goes into the garbage). Ross didn’t know what I was doing so when he put the bottle with the price on the lid on the cooler he threw the lid away in our garbage. (this happened about a month ago) Well, we got 3 more bottles of water the other day and guess what was on one of the lids…………….24 in my handwriting! Now, do they go through the garbage’s to retrieve their lids?? And what are the odds of us getting it????????

We went back to Big Burger Wednesday night for supper (Ross had a craving) and I hate to admit it but the burgers are just tooooooooooo soggy! The hamburger tastes great, I had pineapple (it had been grilled) and mushrooms and they were great, but the hamburger bun just fell apart! The fries were great! After supper we stopped off at Britannia to get something that Ross had there (I don’t know what it was it was some type of electronic thingy) we were lucky that Mike and Mandy were there as the bar wasn’t open to the public. We stopped somewhere else too………..but for the life of me I can’t remember!

Thursday was my introduction to the Beta Sigma Phi Mexico chapter! It was great, we all met at Rita’s house, there must have been 30 women there and everyone brought something yummy to eat, except for us that were joining (I think there were 4 of us). I met a girl from Calgary there that lives here 4 months and in Australia for 4 months and in Calgary for about that long. She was a member in Calgary (I didn’t even know these guys existed) when her children were young. We sat outside and ate, and ate, and ate, had some wine and ate and ate some more. It was great! It seems like every time we get together food and/or alcohol is involved, what could be bad about that???

Of course we stopped in at Philos for some good music and for Ross to get his ya ya’s out. Gene was there and I think he told Ross that next Wednesday he is flying back to Greenville for good! Yuck, we love him; he is such a nice man and a great guitar player! We hope he comes back often, he never sold his house here so we are hoping he will visit when he doesn’t have any renters in his compound.
We scooted over to Wally world to pick up some costumes for dressing up at Philo’s on Halloween. Ross is playing the night as Carlos is playing in Vallarta with his other band Deep River with Mike and Nick. I got the last witch hat and bought a broom with a black top and leggings to complete the look. Ross got a very scary mask with grey hair shooting out and anther half mask.

Well so much for going to Philo’s and wearing my witch costume……………I have a tummy upset, ok it’s more than upset, when Ross was getting his drums into the car I was in the bathroom throwing up (oopsTMI?) AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF………..while giving some kids candy Jake leaned on the inside door and closed it. Now it would have been ok if the door DIDN’T lock automatically! So there I was locked outside the house in a shirt that came down to about 6” above my knees, no shorts on and fluffy slippers! I put the chair on top of the table, used the other chair to climb on to the chair on the table but I still couldn’t reach the wall (I could have killed myself too if I fell) So I climbed up on the bars (see picture of the bars I climbed on and there will be some pictures of the murder mystery I went to too) swung my leg on top of the big gate and hauled myself up, tight walked on the wall (it’s about 8” wide 10’ long) to get to the roof so I could get into our backyard! I had left the screen door open cause the dogs where going crazy so that was good (that the door was open not the dogs were going crazy), but I had hidden a key in our backyard for the screen door just in case we ever got locked out. We have a key outside in the front hidden from view for the screen door and we had talked, just the other week, about hiding one for the big door too, but never got around to it……needless to say, we now have one hidden for the big door too!

Cafe Bohemio is a really neat restaurant in old town Vallarta that everyone has been raving about. Monday’s special was liver and onions, now, even if you don’t like liver, you have to be aware that us people that do,…………..can’t find it down here, only 2 restaurants that I know of has it and when it’s on special……well, you just have to go. Now my tummy is still not feeling up to par, Ross had bought me some pills for diarrhea and they had been working well for that, but I was running a low grade fever and still had some cramping in my tummy, but the thought of liver and onions was too good to pass up, so we picked up Sue and Harold and off we went. It was fabulous! I didn’t eat much cause I was kinda scared of how it would sit in my stomach, but what I didn’t eat, can you guess, Ross did! We stopped off at AutoZone for a funnel and some mace; we figured we should have something to protect ourselves just in case. I popped over to Office Depot for another stapler (staplers an I don’t get along, I use them and they fall apart!?!?!?!?) hopefully this will last longer than the last one I got from Mega. We then drove to Costco to pick up a couple of things (Ross forgot the cheesecake he wanted, how do you forget cheesecake?) then dropped Sue and Harold off at their truck in the Walmart parking lot and drove home.

Happy Birthday to my son Stacy!!! 39 today, yack, now I have to be 49!

We got up close and personal with guys with guns last night! We were coming back from Britannia pub in La Cruz and started driving up Rio Colorado and army guys with guns (faces masked, they do that so the drug runners can’t see who they are) telling us to turn around and go back………………..well! Ross backed up and we tried to get home the other way, it’s a good thing there are more ways than one to get home! We found out today that they actually went to a friend’s house (Ronnie and her husband Tony, they are full timers here from England) and asked for their identification and car papers, I guess they were looking for someone and thought that they would be there! Kinda Scary! Was talking with Lisa on the computer last night (Lisa and Wayne live in Saskatoon and come down here in the winter) and she asked if we could top up her CFE account with more money, they just built a pool in their backyard and didn’t realize the pump would cost so much in electricity. They are on the way down and didn’t want the power to be cut off when they got here! I went down this morning and paid 321 pesos in all, 80 on one bill and the rest on the other (they have a casita that they rent out sometimes). We are looking forward to seeing them again, and she is bringing down some Halloween candy for me, hurray, (rockets, candy kisses….) the candy here doesn’t taste the same and I have had a craving for sweets!

Well that’s about it for now, we have our propane guys coming soon, Norberto will be here 4ish to see about my hot water tap in my shower (it is leaking and just turns around and around and around and I don’t have any hot water, which is kinda funny as it was this time last year we had him out to get our hot water working period) and I emailed Anna to get our working FM3’s started. I can sure get a lot done when I am feeling better; just wait until I’m much better! We also had Francisco come by with a friend with some roofing material we need to put on our roof to stop the rain from coming in. After looking at the roof he quoted us 10,000 pesos, which is very cheap, we just don’t have the money right now, we have about 5 months or so before we will need it so we have some time to get some money together, maybe we will sell a house??? Not maybe, do (Yoda)! The material is really heavy, rubber on the underside and almost like a shingle on the top side, I so don’t need my roof leaking next rainy season, that sucks!

Ross Kim and Critters in Paradise
ps murder mystery would not attach oh well.