Friends Head North

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We were up early this morning to say goodbye to Tracey.  She is teaming up with Jeff and Fany to head back to Texas and then on to Canada.  We all said our goodbyes and out the gate she went.  They will take 3 days to get out of Mexico before parting ways and Tracey will go west and Jeff and Fany will go east.  

Jen saying goodbye

A great day to do some projects.  Our coffee maker has needed a longer cord forever so today it got one.  The other day I went downtown and bought an extension cord.  Today I cut the female end off it and wired it direct to the coffee maker.  Now the cord reaches to the plug with ease.

old cord

new cord

Lots of length

Next was to figure out the range hood fan and light.  I had it apart the other day but I ran out of time to explore in depth.  Today I did and discovered a ground wire that was off.  That fixed that!!!  Generally problems like these are simple to fix and this was.

back together

works fine

Later on we sat around on the beach for a while and discussed life.  Even Joel joined us for a while and we stumble through trying to communicate with our bad Spanish and his bad English.  We did fine. I thought it was so nice of him to drop by just to talk.

There is always something to see out on the beach and in the ocean.  Archie loves to sit and watch dogs and people going by.

photo shoot

pelican gets lunch

Archies little friends

Sue made up a wonderful shrimp stir fry for supper.  I swear we have the tastiest shrimp in the world here. They are almost sweet.  Mmmmmm!!!

After supper we played some cards with John and Kirley.  It was not Johns night tonight.  Good Nite!!

Bang Bang, Your Dead

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Today slipped by with hardly a picture.  We were down town picking up supper to share with Fany and Jeff and Max because this is their last day before heading north for the summer.  We will miss them a lot but if everything works out, we will see them again in about 7 months, maybe sooner.  Anyway as Sue was in picking up the food I stayed in the car.  There was this guy who was holding the door for people in exchange for a few pesos.  He was obviously off on a big adventure in his mind because he would smile and reach into his waist band and draw out a little toy pistol and shoot everyone that came in or out. He would do it discreetly so he wouldn't scare away any pesos.  But he would smile to himself after shooting them and slyly put the pistol back in his waist band.  He would even shoot over his shoulder if someone got by him.  He was hilarious!!!   That would be about the extent of danger here in La Penita.  I hope he smiles like I saw him do, all the time.  If you are stuck inside your head, you may as well have fun. I didn't have the heart to take a picture of him pointing his wee gun at someone.

Its hard to see the gun and it does make a popping sound!

Good Nite!!

Brunch Up on the Deck

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Ed and Jen planned a brunch up on their balcony for this morning, to celebrate another season here in Mexico with all of us.  They put on a massive spread with scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes, all sorts of bread and pastries and fruit of all sorts.  They topped it off with expresso and mimosas.  We are all so thankful that Jen and Ed have opened up their winter home to all of us to enjoy with them.  I hope we all add a little flavour from all over the country to this place.  We have all managed to form bonds in various ways as the winter progressed. 

Lots of food

The gang

Chef Ed making it happen

More scrambled eggs anyone?

Fany wore Archies bark collar but it never went off.  She is too soft spoken.

We all went home for a little rest before showing up at the pool for a game of "Flyball".  I think the right team won!!!  We always have a lot of fun.

Because we had such a big breakfast we waited until after dark to head downtown with the group to the potato restaurant.  They do potatoes with a variety of fillings and are a meal in itself.  We had a great meal with great company.

It was a good day for the tummy today.  We really gotta start watching our intake or we will be overweight for RRV on the way home.  We love our little town. Good Nite!!

Deni and Dante's Birthday Party!!!

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

I had to go downtown this morning to get an extension cord for a project I am going to do some day soon.  While I was at the hardware store I looked over by the plaza and guess what?  Yup the birria guy was there and I'm sure I could hear him calling me over.  What was I to do??  So I had birria!!!

Because we didn't get town water on Friday we had to order a truck load to get us through till Monday.  He arrived in the early afternoon and now we should be good.

Later we headed out to go to Dante and Deni's Birthday Party. Max wanted to go with us so we went and picked him up from his house.  

We arrived a bit late like a good Mexican and the party was already underway.  They had a clown and he had a big speaker which was turned up as high as it could get and he talked and played loud music for about 3 hours.  The kids loved him but it was a bit too much Spanish for Max.  He did well to stay till the cake and goodie bags. 

They had a mechanical bull for the bigger kids to have fun on and Carol and Karen had some good fun on it.  

The birthday boys and their friends all had a go at the pinata.  They had 3 of them so there was lots of candy for everyone.

Kenia had a go at the piñata as well

And a nice family picture with the last pinata.  

We all had cake before it was time to head home.   

Max and I even got to clown around a little bit.   A fun party!!  Good Nite!!!

It Was a Liver and Onions Kinda Day

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

It was a hot day today so I puttered around RRV this morning.  About 2 Susan suggested we go downtown to get a few things and grab some lunch.  How about some Liver and Onions?  Yup, El Pollito has the best!

Facebook got me a little disgusted this morning.  Everyone talks about our health care in Canada and how they wish they had "free" health care.  Well here is the result of our mismanagement in Canada. This particular thing is actually Manitoba but our whole country is going to H in a handcart!!!  There is no excuse for this kind of thing.  What if there is a major emergency?

Archie and I headed out on our walk as usual tonight.  We went down by the new condo being built and observed that the old rock sea wall had been taken out and the new concrete pool side is there.  Wow that was quick but I'm sure another wall will go up in its place.  

A little bit of a sunset made our day almost complete.

I had to share my chair with Archie this evening while doing the blog and he just sat and looked at me while waiting for bed time.  Good Nite!!!