Loving Survivor 50

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Oh wow!!!  Nothing of interest happened today, at least anything I can think of.  I did go for a little bike ride after supper to get some bananas.  I put new batteries in my bike headlight so I could see the way.  

And of course we watched another episode of Survivor 50!!

Sunset caught a cloud again tonight but was still pretty.  We have had more cloud this year than I can ever remember but who is complaining.  Good Nite!!!

A Dead Turtle on The Beach

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We had a little surprise on our walk on the beach this morning.  We saw a blob floating about 30 feet from shore.  As we watched it got closer and closer until it finally rolled up on shore.  It was a dead sea turtle!  And it was big.  Probably 150 lbs.  I wonder how old it may have been.  This one had been dead a couple days I think.  

After our walk I headed downtown to find some birria, but I ran into Abuela and Anyanelli and Carol.  They were going for breakfast and invited me.  I texted Susan and she walked down and joined us.  We had a great talk over breakfast.  Oscar and Rafi joined us.

While we were eating a young lady came in with a mandolin and sang a couple songs.  She had an awesome voice so we gave her a little tip as did everyone else.  I love how the musicians are brave enough to just step up and sing their hearts out.  

Anyanelli had a 100 peso note that was from 1982 and was showing it around.  I don't think they are really rare but we had never seen one so she gave it to us!!!  Yup gave it to us!!!  We will find a special place for it.

Archie and I had a nice evening walk on the beach as usual.  It was really quiet because a lot of the snowbirds have flown the coop.  It is like the calm before the storm, as the Mexicans will start to show up on Friday for Holy week that starts on Sunday.  Then the beaches will be packed for 10 days or so.  We don't get it that bad here, but we certainly get more people than usual.  We walked by the condo construction again and they are moving right along.  

We all did the sunset gathering again today.  We were hoping for a sunset without clouds tonight but no such luck.  It was still good to watch it slip behind the clouds.  Another good day.  Good Nite!!

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!!