4 Days in 1 Post

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Ok the days are getting a bit boring.  When Sue gets back we might do some tours but for now I tend to hang around home. There is not much happening around here and the need to go downtown every night is becoming ho hum so here are 4 days in 1 post!!!  I even got my pictures and days mixed up yesterday but oh well.  You wouldn't know cause you were not here!!  Here are a dump of 4 days of pictures with captions.

Ken, Normand, Rhonda Suzanne and Archie

Kenia has new long hair!!!

Carol, Kenia and I touring the carnival plaza.  I am happy she still has time for dear old Dad!!

Main Stage all set up on the Avenida for a party on Tuesday Night.

sun is quickly rolling down the hill

Supper with the Lennexs at Sergios. This is not us!!!! lol

Archie is missing his mom, and now Lilly.  Just you and me bud!!!

Archie asking when they will be back

I headed down to see my Dr in Los Aayla about my ear.  I will spare you the picture of it but there is a big bump on it that just doesn't want to heal.  It is sort of gross but doesn't really hurt a lot.  Dr. is going to do a biopsy although he doesn't think it is anything serious, he wants to find out what is causing it so he can fix it.  Anyway, Dr Alexandra is gone until Monday so I will go back then.  Normally you don't need an appointment but she told me 2 pm on Monday.

the clinic

Clinic is in Los Ayala

When I say I drove to Los Ayala here is a little map to show you how close our 3 little towns are.  I drove 6.8kms from home to the clinic so it is not that far.  Guayabitos is only about 3.5kms .  I would ride the bike but that involves riding in some pretty heavy and fast traffic with no shoulder on the road so I prefer to take the Jeep.

Los Ayala, Rincon Guayabitos, La Penita

Stopped at hardware store for toilet parts

New water shut off for toilet

Lunch at the Market with my friends

Supper at El Pollito without my friends

Olympic Men's Curling Final

And Jacobs won gold!!!

We do live in a beautiful spot in the winter.  We tend not to see the beauty every day but it is there.  Many people only enjoy paradise in the winter for a short period while we get to be here for 5 months.  

Even Archie looks out in awe!!!

Good Nite!!!!

Somebody Turns 60!!!

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Today is Susans Birthday!!!  It's somewhat of a big one because today she turns 60.  I guess that is an event of sorts but I don't even remember my 60's!!!  Happy Birthday to my young wife!!!  She gets to celebrate back in Manitoba with the Kaitlyn and the kids today.

This morning I headed down to Guayabitos to the Coppel to pick up some money.  We use Remitly and Coppel is one of the pick up points.  You can get money from ATMs but sometimes the transaction fees are a bit much.  We can also get more pesos at once using Remitly.

Then on the way home I stopped and picked up the laundry from our laundry lady. It is wrapped so nice and smells soooo wonderful and not that expensive.

A little later in the morning we all said our goodbye's to Ron and Lilly.  They have to go home so Lilly can be with her family as they are experiencing medical issues with her sister.  We wish them well and will see them again next year I'm sure.

Today marks the end of the Carnival so it is parade day.  The parade was scheduled for 6:30 down town and like a Mexican parade it was NOT at 6:30.  We sat and watched people go up and down the street instead.

About 7:50 the policia showed up with sirens blaring.  They don't just do a little bit at a time but rather they let it blare continually.  Hard on the ears, but at least we knew the parade was near. 

This parade was about the carnival queen and lots of dance groups.  It was quite good but we lost interest after seeing about 5 floats in an hour.  They are soooooo slow.  They do a full song dance in one spot and then move 50 feet and do it all over again.  So it takes forever for the parade to go by.

I did catch a sunset tonight as well.  It seems like the clouds we had for a couple weeks are not around any more so that is good.  Anyway, Good Nite!!!

A Trip to PV

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Wanda had asked me if I would be drive her to PV to pick up her daughter Allison and her partner Robert.  Irwin is not used to driving in downtown PV and it can be a bit of a night mare, and the kids wanted to go to Costco which is further into the city than the airport.  Of course I said yes.  It would be a good opportunity to get away from the daily grind.  So we set off about 10:30 down the old highway bound for PV.  I love the drive on the old road for its beautiful scenery.  Today there was lots of traffic, but it moved right along.  

Don't be scared Wanda. We are gonna make it.  She was a good navigator.

We had things timed pretty good and it wasn't long after we got parked and into the airport that the kids showed up.  They were hungry so we stopped for some million dollar taco's.  Yes they are expensive in the airport.  Thanks for buying my lunch Wanda!!!  lol. 

Everyone was laughing at all the taxi people trying to entice everyone to ride with them so Wanda decided to try out her own taxi sign!!!

We made it through the busy city and back to La Penita safely.  The traffic was quite busy but the airport was not, nor was Costco.   After we got home I took a quick trip down town to check out the action.  All that was happening was a guy on the Malecon doing Karaoke.  I am not a karaoke fan so I didn't stay long.

Another sunset and the day was over.  Hope you had a good one too.  Good Nite!!!

Ed and Jen walking the dogs on the beach

A Get Together for Ron and Lilly

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Today started like no other with birria from my favourite street vendor.  Birria is a favourite breakfast food for a lot of Mexicans.  Birria is a regional variation of barbacoa from western Mexico, mainly made with goat, beef or lamb. The meat is marinated in an adobo made of vinegar, dried chiles, garlic, and herbs and spices (including cumin, bay leaves, and thyme) before being cooked in a broth.  The birria here is made with beef generally and the broth is what gives it the very aggressive flavour.

I rode the bike downtown

busy making tacos at the vendor

After lunch we had another Flyball game.  Today we are having a little get together because Ron and Lilly will be leaving us tomorrow.  So we were all here as well as Jeff, Fany and Alexi and Max, so there were actually 5 people on each team with a couple left over.  Each team won a couple games.

Kirley was the official

We lost a fly ball in the process

with that many players, we get some good volleys going

After the game, we all got together for appies at the palapa.  

Everyone has gone home but Jeff talks on!!!  

And me and my friends lol

Lilly spent some time visiting with her canine friends.  She is loved by all the dogs here. 

Today was the horse parade in town.  Its when about 150 horses start off in Los Ayala and tour through Rincon Guayabitos and end up at the old bull ring in La Penita.  I was late getting there but stole this picture of some of the horses.  I did drive by the bull ring later where the party was going on, but the music was waaaaay too loud for me, so I just kept on going.

the music was loud and lights were bright

Sunset was great tonight and Max wanted his dinosaur to be part of it!!  Why not?  Good Nite!!!