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!!!

A Fun Afternoon at the Theater

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

Today was Thursday and that is Market Day.  Every Thursday we go to the market and swear we will not go back, but every Thursday we go back.  Susan and I walked down about 10 o'clock and as we were going over the stinky bridge she took a picture of the green growth on the top of the estuary.  Everyone thinks it is gross because there is a storm sewer collection and discharge right beside the bridge and it smells like gray water, hence the name "stinky bridge".    I think the green growth (not algae) probably deals with any pollutants added to the water.  The water under this layer is crystal clear and the fish and the turtles and one big crocodile thrive in it.

Susan went to the market to get some bread and stuff and guess where I went?  Yup straight over to my birria guy!!!  Mmmmmm good!!!

We didn't stay any longer than we had to before heading back to RRV.  Susan spent some time in her craft tent and while she was there, she noticed a little, well not so little, friend had joined her.  Hunter spiders are good spiders so we don't kill them, but they are still spiders!!!

Later in the afternoon we attended a play we had bought tickets for.  We had attended a play by this group back in 2020 in Guayabitos and it was great.  

They have not put anything on since that time so today they put on a radio play.  This type of presentation doesn't require a stage or props because you are to see it in your mind.  They even involved the audience by getting us to do sound effects.  The narrator would hold up a coloured card and we would respond with the appropriate sound effect.

It was certainly a different presentation than we are used to.  The only criticism was that there were no microphones so because it was a rather open air venue, us old people could not hear very well over the squawking birds, water truck, garbage truck, motorcycles and noise in general.  After it was done, we were hungry so we headed down to Darahs Pizza. We had a lovely supper in a rain forest type environment.

Of course we left a little room for some ice cream.  We have a neat little shop that makes rolled ice cream so we stopped there.  They make the ice cream right in front of you and add things like fresh fruit and oreos to it as they make it.  And it is yummy ice cream!!!

I think John and Kirly enjoyed it.  Picture is worth a thousand words.

We finished off our day with another episode of Survivor. It is still rather ho hum but I think there are some things getting ready to happen that will spice it up.  Fingers crossed.  Anyway Good Nite!!

Catching Up on the Blog

WHERE ARE WE? La Penita, Nayarit, Mexico

We were invited to join Kenia for breakfast up at the RV park today.  Ceci does a great job of all the meals she prepares.  As is with Kenia and as with Mexican tradition, she showed up about 10:40 for a 10 o'clock meet time. LOL.  We enjoyed spending some time with some friends from the park that we don't see too often.  Carol and Grant, Joel and Louise, George and Henny, Del and Leslie and of course Kenia, Rafi, Ceci, and Ada. 

Avocado toast

Joel and Louise

Kenia being Kenia

After chatting away for a couple hours we headed home and laid low until it was time for Archies walk. He has his favourite dogs that he likes to hang out with on the beach. 

Another beautiful sunset as it makes its way across the water toward the island.

And a beautiful after glow.

I spent a couple hours catching up on my blogging before calling it a day.  Good Nite!!